Rebel Wilson refuses to be 'silenced' by Sacha Baron Cohen

[Sarzy]

Rebel Wilson has named Sacha Baron Cohen as a previously unnamed ‘a*****e’ in her upcoming memoir.

The Pitch Perfect actress, 44, is set to release new book Rebel Rising, which looks into her childhood, career and personal life.

However it appears lawyers have descended ahead of the memoir’s release, seemingly taking issue with an ‘a*****e’ named in a chapter of the book.

She has now named the person she is talking about in the book, declaring she will not be ‘bullied or silenced’.

Taking to Instagram stories, Rebel wrote: ‘I will not be bullied or silenced by high priced lawyers or PR crisis managers

'The “a*****e” that I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is: Sacha Baron Cohen'

It comes after Rebel claimed an ‘a*****e’ she mentioned in her book was ‘trying to threaten me’.

‘He’s hired a crisis PR manager and lawyers. He’s trying to stop press coming out about my new book,’ she wrote on Instagram.

‘But the book WILL come out and you will all know the truth.’

Rebel previously shared that when she first came to Hollywood, colleagues told her they have a ‘no a******s policy … I don’t work with a******s.’

‘I was like, “Yeah, that sounds sensible, logical.”‘

She said she had ‘worked with a massive a****e, and now I definitely have a no a*****e policy chapter on said a*****e. It is chapter 23. That guy was a massive a*****e.’


metro.co.uk/2024/03/25/rebel-wilson-refuses-bullied-silenced-sacha-baron-cohen-20522596/

[funky]

I read speculations online about that, and the majority thought it to be Sasha Baron Cohen. Good for her naming him!

[constancespry]

Huh, first I’ve read of this!, I am very disappointed and hope Isla will kick his ass. 😈

[sputnik]

i think it's also possible when two strong personalities clash for them both to be convinced the other person is an asshole. doesn't mean they're an asshole in general.
and honestly, rebel wilson kind of comes off as a bit of an asshole herself, so there's that. and that's not necessarily a bad thing, in that industry you probably have to be to survive.

i doubt i'll read this but i hope my celebrity memoir podcast does an episode on it. it's called 'celebrity book club' and it's hilarious and bitchy af.

[eva]

She alleges that he whipped out his little Sasha Baron Cohen and demanded a sex act though.

[sputnik]

really?? ewww ok that's different
off to google

[Sarzy]

Mar 25, 2024 16:00:11 GMT eva said:

She alleges that he whipped out his little Sasha Baron Cohen and demanded a sex act though.

Yep. 

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"He called me into a room and pulled down his pants," she says. Then in front of his friends, he asked her to perform a lewd act.

"It was awful and disgusting," she says. "And all the behavior afterwards — this was all before #MeToo — where they kind of tried to destroy me and my career. If it had happened after #MeToo, then I could have just blasted them." As a trained lawyer (Wilson also has a law degree from University of New South Wales), she did what she could.

"Because I'm a lawyer, I documented it," she says, "I called my rep. I got certain things in writing about what happened."

"I thought even complaining to my agency was a big step. And to complain to the studio. I found out I was like the fourth person to complain about the guy. Such gross behavior, but a lot of women have had it way worse."

people.com/movies/rebel-wilson-reveals-metoo-moment-when-costar-tried-to-destroy-her-exclusive/

[sputnik]

per the guardian:

Wilson and Baron Cohen starred together as husband and wife in Grimsby, and Wilson has previously discussed her experiences making the movie, saying that Baron Cohen encouraged her to strip off entirely, before hiring a body double when she refused.

Speaking on the Kyle and Jackie O radio show in Australia in 2014 (Grimsby had a long period in post-production), Wilson said that Baron Cohen was so persistent that she told him she would call their shared agent “and tell her how much you are harassing me”.

She continued: “Every day he’s like, ‘Just go naked, it will be funny. Remember in Borat when I did that naked scene? It was hilarious.’ On the last day I thought I’d obviously won the argument and he got a body double to do the naked scene.”

Wilson also alleged that Baron Cohen asked her to stick her finger up his bottom in the final scene. “And I went, ‘What do you mean Sacha? That’s not in the script.’

“And he’s like, ‘Look, I’ll just pull down my pants, you just stick your finger up my butt, it’ll be a really funny bit.’” Wilson said they finally reached a compromise: “You don’t wanna be a diva so I … said I’ll slap you once on the butt and that’s it,” said Wilson.

[notoriousmkg]

Mar 25, 2024 16:12:38 GMT Sarzy said:

Mar 25, 2024 16:00:11 GMT eva said:

She alleges that he whipped out his little Sasha Baron Cohen and demanded a sex act though.

Yep. 

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"He called me into a room and pulled down his pants," she says. Then in front of his friends, he asked her to perform a lewd act.

"It was awful and disgusting," she says. "And all the behavior afterwards — this was all before #MeToo — where they kind of tried to destroy me and my career. If it had happened after #MeToo, then I could have just blasted them." As a trained lawyer (Wilson also has a law degree from University of New South Wales), she did what she could.

"Because I'm a lawyer, I documented it," she says, "I called my rep. I got certain things in writing about what happened."

"I thought even complaining to my agency was a big step. And to complain to the studio. I found out I was like the fourth person to complain about the guy. Such gross behavior, but a lot of women have had it way worse."

people.com/movies/rebel-wilson-reveals-metoo-moment-when-costar-tried-to-destroy-her-exclusive/

That is freaking horrifying.  It sounds like something Uncle Terry would do.  Also, checking the timeline, she appears to have only done one movie with this guy.  So, not only did he pull this stunt (in front of witnesses), which should get your *ss canceled, he also did the other stuff with the body double and the finger.  He sounds as absolutely off the rails as the characters he portrays.

[czb]

i'm bummed ... i always liked sacha.

[notoriousmkg]

I'm reading about it on Reddit and people are saying, and sourcing, a story from Wilson where she claimed to have done something similar to Tom Hardy. (finger)

www.hollywood.com/general/rebel-wilson-tom-hardy-ignored-me-after-i-touched-his-butt-60750839

[sputnik]

quoting from mo's link here: 

Rebel Wilson fell out with Tom Hardy after she touched his butt without warning while the pair were working together.
The actress starred alongside 41-year-old Tom in the 2012 romantic comedy spy film This Means War and, during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actress admitted she got a little too hands-on with her co-star.
“My first day on set, the director said, ‘When you enter the scene, I want you to just stick your finger up Tom Hardy’s butt’,” the star recalled. “I just did it (then) he gave a really realistic shocked expression. And then he didn’t really talk to me.”
The star went on to share that she made a similar faux pas while filming alongside Anne Hathaway for the pair’s upcoming movie The Hustle.
The Australian-born star and the Ocean’s 8 actress play leading roles in the Chris Addison directed clip, which is a remake of the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
During one scene in the movie, the 39-year old’s character pretends to go blind and starts to feel her way around with her hands, and the star confessed she got carried away during filming and groped her co-star’s breasts.
“If you’re going to touch somebody inappropriately, you have to tell them before the take and say, ‘Is it alright if I do this to you?'” Rebel shared. “But I forgot… maybe, like, deliberately forgot.”
Despite joking about the incident, the actress clarified that giving warning before making bodily contact is “actor’s etiquette”.
“Like, I should have told her about it,” she insisted.
The Hustle starts showing in cinemas on Friday (10May19).

[czb]

oy

[coppercatseye]

They’re both assholes.

[greysfang]

Mar 25, 2024 18:41:02 GMT czb said:

i'm bummed ... i always liked sacha.

I never liked the guy and always thought he was creepy and unfunny.