Borat's 'daughter' slammed in her native Bulgaria but now she's tipped for BAFTA

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She’s the Bulgarian actress who has become the breakout star of Hollywood’s awards season. But Maria Bakalova – tipped to win Best Supporting Actress at tonight’s BAFTAs – has left some in her native country raging with her portrayal of Tutar Sagdiyev in the second Borat movie.

Simeon Dimitrov, Maria’s acting teacher from her home town of Burgas, tells Goss: “Here in Bulgaria, unfortunately, some are calling her performance amateurish. “Some of the local press had a field day with that.

And then come the nominations. “There’s a gulf between how we look at cinema here and how major industries look at them. “I don’t like this movie – I don’t like the way it’s made.