Rebel without a clause
Aussie star names Baron Cohen as ‘ the a**hole’ in memoir
Rebel by name, Rebel by nature.
Hollywood actress Rebel Wilson has branded comic Sacha Baron Cohen an “a**hole” – and detailed why she thinks so in an entire chapter in her memoirs.
However, she claims he has enlisted lawyers and a “crisis PR manager” to thwart the contents being reported.
Having vowed to fight her version of events being suppressed, she has gone on to name the British actor, with whom she starred in his 2016 comedy flop Grimsby.
She said: “I will not be silenced by high priced lawyers or PR crisis managers. The a**hole I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is: Sacha Baron Cohen.”
During a promo for the film, Rebel, 44, spoke about refusing to perform nude scenes. “They wanted fullfrontal nudity. We write in the contract, specifically, ‘No nudity’,” she said at the time. “They got in another girl – this larger burlesque dancer from South Africa – to be a nude double. And they got her to do all this stuff. “Sacha would go, ‘See, she looks good.’ I’m like, ‘I’m not doing it. I don’t care what you say.’”
She went on to make further claims about the star, describing him as “outrageous” in an interview on Australian radio, explaining: “In the last scene... he was like, ‘Rebel can you just stick your finger up my butt?’ 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’.
“You don’t want to be a diva so I said, ‘I’ll slap you once on the butt and that’s it’.”
The Aussie actress had previously explained that she has a “no a**hole policy” when it comes to working in La La Land.
Rebel, who starred with Sacha’s wife Isla Fisher in the 2012 film Bachelorette, releases her autobiography Rebel Rising next week.
A spokesman for Sacha told the Mirror: “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 Grimsby.”