Actress and comedian Rebel Wilson has a new memoir titled Rebel Rise. In it, she apparently spends a chapter detailing her work with, as she refers to it, a “hole” she worked with during her career.
In a series of Instagram posts over the weekend (via Us weekly), Wilson revealed that said “idiot” was “trying to threaten me” and had “hired a public relations manager and crisis lawyers” to deal with Wilson’s book and the negative publicity it could generate.
In another postshe then identified the hole as Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen.
Wilson and Cohen co-starred in the 2016 action comedy The Brothers Grimsby. A parody of the Bond films, it stars Mark Strong as the world’s greatest secret agent and Cohen as his stupid, obnoxious brother. The duo must work together to stop an evil conspiracy. Wilson played Cohen’s girlfriend in the film.
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When news of Wilson’s allegations broke online, an old interview she gave where she talked about working with Cohen resurfaced online. On Australian radio Kyle and Jackie O Show In 2014, Wilson called Cohen “so outrageous” and said “every day he’s like, ‘Just get naked, it’ll be funny.’ And I say, ‘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’re harassing me.’”
After Wilson went public with his idiotic accusations, Cohen released a statement which said: “While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false allegations are directly contradicted by extensive and detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, video footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during, and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby.”
Regardless of what is claimed, this style of explicit sexual humor is certainly at the heart of The brothers Grimsby, which Cohen co-wrote. On my analysis of the film in 2016, I wrote:
At heart, Sacha Baron Cohen is both provocateur and comedian, and he may love a good shock even more than a good laugh. Since success deprived him of the ability to move anonymously among the population, he has had to find more conventional ways to satisfy his desire to mess with people. In The Brothers Grimsby, this mainly means sexual jokes that are much more explicit than in a typical conventional comedy; expect to hear gasps of dismay at some of the raunchy content. (Three words: Full-frontal animal.) Some of this stuff is in such obviously bad taste that we wonder if the subjects of Baron Cohen’s latest hidden camera experiment are the Brothers Grimsby’s paying clients.
Wilson’s memoir is scheduled for publication on April 2.
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