Rebel Wilson is refusing to be silenced. The 44-year-old Australian actress took to her Instagram Stories on Monday morning to name a celebrity she called an “a**hole” in your next memoir.
“I will not be intimidated or silenced by expensive lawyers or public relations crisis managers,” Wilson wrote. “The ‘hole’ I’m talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is: Sacha Baron Cohen.”
Wilson and Baron Cohen co-starred in the 2016 film, The Brothers Grimsby, together. Baron Cohen, who shares three children with his wife, Isla Fisher, and is best known for Borat, Bruno, Ali G What’s more, he has not publicly commented on the claims.
Wilson’s upcoming memoir, Rebel Risewill be released on April 2nd. She had previously teased naming the ‘a**hole’, in a March 15 Instagram video.
“When I first came to Hollywood, people said, ‘Yeah, I don’t have a no-no policy. I don’t work with idiots.’ I thought, ‘Ah, yes, that seems sensible, logical,’ but then I really understood what they meant by that, the older people in the industry,” Wilson reflected. ‘Because I worked with a huge idiot and, yes, I definitely have a no-idiot policy. One chapter about this idiot is chapter 23. This guy was a huge idiot.
During a 2014 appearance on Kyle and Jackie O on KIIS FM radio show, Wilson accused Baron Cohen of repeatedly asking her to do nude scenes in the film.
“Sacha is so outrageous,” she said at the time. “Every day he’s like, ‘Rebel, can you just get naked in this scene?’ And I say, ‘No!'”
Noting that they had the same American agent, she added: “I thought, ‘Sacha, I’m going to call our agent Sharon and tell her how much you’re harassing me.”
She said that although Baron Cohen hired a stunt double to do the nude scene, she claimed at the time that he asked her to stick her finger up his ass in one scene.
“He’s like, ‘Look, I’m going to pull down my pants, you stick your finger up my ass, it’s going to be really funny,’” Wilson alleged, noting that she refused.
Rebel Rise will be released on April 2nd.
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