A new feud is brewing in the industry between Australian actress Rebel Wilson and British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Over the past few days, the actress has mentioned that she will dedicate a chapter in her memoir Rebel Rising to a ‘giant a-hole’ she once worked with. Now, Wilson has revealed that the bastard is Baron Cohen.
Wilson likewise uncovered that the Borat star’s PR supervisor and emergency group were annoying her to eliminate the part from the book and that she wouldn’t withdraw. Cohen’s group gave out a proclamation that the cases made by Wilson were misleading and that they had ‘itemized proof’. Wilson and Aristocrat Cohen featured in the 2016 film Grimsby.
Rebel Wilson Reveals Sacha Baron Cohen As The ‘A*shole’ In Her Memoir
Australian entertainer Revolutionary Wilson as of late uncovered her journal Dissident Rising, which subtleties her experience growing up, ascent to acclaim, and her relationship with weight and food. The book is set to be delivered on April 2 and supposedly likewise discusses her encounters in the entertainment world. She especially referenced one part in the book committed to one problematic entertainer.
In an Instagram post on her profile, Renegade Wilson referenced that numerous veteran entertainers had spoken about having a ‘no a*sholes’ strategy when it came to working with others. She expressed that while she found it reasonable at that point, it truly hit her when she had her own involvement in an ‘a*shole’. She said,
“When I first came to Hollywood, people were like, yeah, ‘I have a no-a*shole policy, [it] means like, yeah, I don’t work with a*sholes.’ I was like, ‘Oh yeah. I mean, that sounds sensible or logical.’ But then it sunk in [what they, the older people in the industry, meant] because I worked with a massive a*shole and yeah, now I definitely have a no-a*sholes policy.”
The actress mentioned that her experience with the said troublesome actor would be detailed in chapter twenty-three of her book. A little later, Wilson took to Instagram to mention that she was being harassed by her former co-worker’s PR team to stop the book from coming out. “I wrote about an a*shole in my book. Now, said a*shole is trying to threaten me” (via US Weekly).
Wilson revealed that the a*shole in question was Borat star Sacha Boren Cohen. The two had worked together in the spy comedy Grimsby (The Brothers Grimsby in North America). She said on her Instagram,
“I will not be bullied or silenced with high-priced lawyers or PR crisis managers. The ‘a*shole’ that I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is Sacha Baron Cohen.”
She claimed that Baron Cohen’s team of PR managers and lawyers had been harassing her to stop her from writing about him but that the truth would come out eventually.
Rebel Wilson’s Memoir Talks About Her Experience With Sacha Baron Cohen
Rebel Wilson had recently nitty gritty her experience on the arrangements of Grimsby, which featured Sacha Aristocrat Cohen ahead of the pack job. The entertainer, who played The Despot star’s sweetheart and the mother of his eleven kids in the film, referenced that he would frequently attempt to persuade her to go n*de in scenes, saying that it would be amusing.
Wilson stood up against the episode while showing up on the Kyle and Jackie O public broadcast (by means of The Messenger Mail). She expressed back in 2014,
“Sacha is so outrageous. Every single day he’s like, ‘Rebel, can you just go naked in this scene?’ And I’m like, ‘No!’ Sacha and I have the same agent in America and I’m like, ‘Sacha, I’m going to call our agent Sharon and tell her how much you are harassing me. Every day he’s like, ‘Just go naked, it will be funny. Remember in Borat when I did that naked scene? It was hilarious.’”
Wilson mentioned that after she refused to perform the scene, the actor got a body double to do it. However, Baron Cohen threw a curveball by asking her to ‘stick her finger up his b*tt’ during the scene, saying that it would be a funny bit. Wilson claimed that she compromised with a ‘spank’ as she did not want to be a diva.
While Wilson seems to be in an all-out attack mode against Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor’s team has denied all allegations and put out a statement saying that they had evidence that contradicted her claims. The statement said (via The Hollywood Reporter),
“While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during, and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby.”
As the memoir gets closer to its release date, Rebel Wilson does not seem to be slowing down. The actress mentioned that she would not back down and even dedicated the book to all the people who have been branded as a ‘non-conformist’ (via Instagram).