Lainey Wilson shines on the red carpet at the 2024 CMT Music Awards held at Moody Center on Sunday night (April 7) in Austin, Tex.
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Rebel Wilson officially named Sacha Baron Cohen as the Hollywood star who is allegedly trying to “threaten” her over her upcoming memoir, “Rebel Rising.” In an Instagram Story on Monday, the “Pitch Perfect” actress posted a picture of a binder and a purple pen while declaring, “I will not be bullied or silenced with high priced lawyers or PR crisis managers.” before dropping the bombshell. “The ‘a—hole’ that I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is Sasha Baron Cohen,” she continued.The Post reached out to Cohen, 52, for comment.
Several social media users were quick to respond to the allegations. “Oh, you mean Sacha Baron Cohen, the guy who made a career out of being an ‘a—hole’ to people for comedic effect,” one X (formerly Twitter) user wrote.
“How shocking that he would allegedly threaten legal action against Rebel Wilson for daring to write about her experience working with him.” “I mean, it’s not like celebrities have a history of using their power and influence to silence people who speak out against them or anything,” they went on. “And it’s certainly not like there’s a huge double standard in Hollywood when it comes to how male and female actors are treated.”“Sacha Baron Cohen has always been a weirdo,” a second user pointed out.
“Seeing Rebel Wilson reveal that Sacha Baron Cohen is the a-hole she wrote about in her book like its a big deal but I’m honestly not even surprised,” a third person laughed. One diligent social media user pointed out that this was not the first time that Wilson, 44, had spoken out against the “Borat” star.“Rebel Wilson has been extremely consistent over the past decade in talking about what she experienced with Sacha Baron Cohen,” they wrote along with a couple of screenshots of
.Lainey Wilson shines on the red carpet at the 2024 CMT Music Awards held at Moody Center on Sunday night (April 7) in Austin, Tex.
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Rebel Rising,” the “Pitch Perfect” actress, 44, told the Sunday Times of London that Sacha Baron Cohen, her co-star in “The Brothers Grimsby,” made her feel “laughed at and degraded” on set nearly a decade ago.The Aussie performer previously claimed that Baron Cohen, 52, sexually harassed her during the making of the 2016 comedy.
Actress Rebel Wilson is not done blasting Sacha Baron Cohen for her horrible experiences in his 2016 film, “The Brothers Grimsby.” Last week, the “Pitch Perfect” star alleged that Cohen was trying to block the publication of her memoir, “Rebel Rising,” wherein she divulges negative experiences while working on Cohen’s comedy. Now, she is accusing the comedian of “bullying and gaslighting” her after the release of a video purporting to contradict her allegations against him surfaced online.
Rebel Wilson has said that she felt like “something to be laughed at and degraded” on set of The Brothers Grimsby because of her size.The Australian actor recently opened up about her experience of working with Sacha Baron Cohen on the 2016 comedy, in which she played the actor’s girlfriend.In an extract from her new memoir Rebel Rising, she alleged that the actor pressured her into filming inappropriate scenes, which he strongly denies.Elaborating on her experience making the film in a new interview with The Sunday Times, Wilson said: “It’s one thing for someone who is fat to exploit their size for comedy, but it’s another for somebody else to humiliate you.”She added that it “turned out to be the worst professional experience of my career”.Her comments come after she detailed her experience on the film in her new memoir, writing (via People): “It felt like every time I’d speak to SBC, he’d mention that he wanted me to go naked in a future scene. I was like, ‘Ha, I don’t do nudity, Sacha.’”The Pitch Perfect star described one particular alleged incident on set: “SBC summons me via a production assistant saying that I’m needed to film an additional scene.
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Rebel Wilson.“Some actresses would get offended if I called them plus-size in this book, so I have to be careful with what I say. This is why, I think, Adele hates me,” Wilson, 44, writes in her upcoming memoir, “Rebel Rising,” according to an excerpt obtained by InTouch Weekly.
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People. “And I think that could be a positive message.
Rebel Wilson has accused Sacha Baron Cohen of certain behaviour while working on a film, after which she was told to be “professional”.In her new memoir, Rebel Rising, the Australian actor has opened up about her experience working with Baron Cohen on 2016 comedy The Brothers Grimsby, in which she played his character’s girlfriend.Wilson said (via People) about beginning to film the movie: “It felt like every time I’d speak to SBC, he’d mention that he wanted me to go naked in a future scene. I was like, ‘Ha, I don’t do nudity, Sacha.’”The Pitch Perfect star described one particular alleged incident on set: “SBC summons me via a production assistant saying that I’m needed to film an additional scene.
Rebel Wilson‘s memoir has been revealed, in which she describes in detail her alleged interactions with Sacha Baron Cohen as they worked on 2016’s “The Brothers Grimsby.”Wilson, 44, said that she initially met Cohen, 52, during a dinner party in 2013 and was later asked by the “Borat” star to play his girlfriend, Dawn, in the ill-fated R-rated comedy. “It felt like every time I’d speak to SBC, he’d mention that he wanted me to go naked in a future scene,” the “Rebel Rising” excerpt read, which was obtained by People on Wednesday.
is an “a–hole” who behaved badly on the set of a film the duo starred in and is now trying to stop the publication of her forthcoming memoir “Rebel Rising,” which calls him out.“Thanks so much to everyone who has sent gorgeous messages of support in the last few days and to those who share with me their stories of the a–hole!,” Wilson, 44, posted on her Instagram Story.“Don’t worry I won’t be bullied or threatened by this guy! And am working hard behind the scenes to make sure my book comes out!”The Aussie actress added: “Ps my book is not ABOUT this guy – this is one chapter!” The pair starred in the 2016 spy comedy “The Brothers Grimsby,” in which Baron Cohen, 52, played a working-class Brit-turned spy named Nobby and Wilson played Dawn, the mother of his 11 kids.Their ugly spat began March 15 when Wilson said in an Instagram video that a portion of her book would be devoted to a “massive a–hole” she once worked with.“When I first came to Hollywood, people were like, yeah, ‘I have a no-a–hole policy. [It] means like, yeah, I don’t work with a–holes.’ I was like, ‘Oh yeah.
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