![]() ![]() ![]() “I saw Eli Cohen, as he was written in the show, as an extreme version of myself,” Baron Cohen said recently. Like Baron Cohen, the creator of ambush comedies like “Da Ali G Show,” “Borat” and “Bruno,” Eli Cohen got results by going deep into character. Baron Cohen plays Eli Cohen (no relation), the real-life Israeli spy who worked for the Mossad in the early 1960s, gathering information about Syria’s military plans while posing as Kamel Amin Thaabet, a patriotic Syrian shipping magnate. The Israeli producer Gideon Raff (“Homeland”) created the nervy six-episode thriller, which debuted Friday. It’s easier to imagine the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, best known as bombastic cringe humor icons like Ali G and Borat Sagdiyev, playing a subtle dramatic role once you know that the character in question, in the Netflix mini-series “The Spy,” is also an undercover performer.
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