Aladeen insists on subservience from everyone, including his uncle Tamir (Ben Kingsley), who has Aladeen kidnapped and replaces him with a pliable double (also played by Baron Cohen).

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He has not previously given a formal interview to a British broadcaster, preferring instead to appear in character - Ali G, Borat, Bruno and now General Admiral Aladeen in The Dictator.

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On the lam in America (his second-in-command, played by Ben Kingsley, is out to get him), Aladeen becomes friends with a vegan activist, Zoey (Anna Faris), who runs the Free Earth Collective, an organic-produce store in Brooklyn.

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Aladeen's ubiquity is getting some media pushback.

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