KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City hotelier Blaine Proctor makes his screen debut in “Brüno.”
Involuntarily.
“We signed a waiver under false pretenses,” he explained.
Proctor, director of sales and marketing for the Hotel Phillips downtown, appears about halfway through the new Sacha Baron Cohen movie.
In the film, a hotel maintenance man finds Brüno (Baron Cohen) and his assistant/lover Lutz (Gustaf Hammarsten) handcuffed together in a human knot in Room 2010 (the hotel is never identified, but it's there on the maintenance guy's name tag).
The two men are wearing only black leather S&M harnesses. Brüno says they've lost the handcuff keys.
Clearly freaked out, the maintenance man retreats to the hallway and calls for backup. Soon several hotel officials — Proctor among them — arrive to take in the bizarre scene.
“We were told something completely differently was happening,” Proctor said this week, “that they were making a documentary about a European man traveling around the U.S. and how he interacts with Americans and our culture.
“Which I guess in a way is true.”
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