Rebel shared a ‘bad experience’ on movie set to ‘release shame’
REBEL Wilson said speaking out about her alleged “humiliation” by Sacha Baron Cohen “released the shame” she had felt about “staying in the situation”.
The Australian actress made claims against Mr Cohen, her co-star in 2016 film Grimsby, in her autobiography Rebel Rising, published in the US in April.
Now she has told Desert
Island Discs that she had felt unable to walk away from the project without looking “unprofessional”.
Mr Cohen denies her allegations and a version of her book, with a redacted section in the relevant chapter, is now out in the UK.
The 44-year-old said she spoke out, “in one way to release the shame that I had for staying in a situation that wasn’t great. That was my worst professional experience and that was where it crossed the line, it wasn’t comedy.
“It just crossed the line into an experience where yeah, I did feel humiliated and degraded for being an overweight woman...
“The me now would have been strong enough but back then I didn’t have enough self-esteem to leave, and I thought I would be labelled as unprofessional if I left.
“It’s a final release of the emotions of it and if it can help a few people out there, then it’s worth it.”
Rebel also explained how one of her most famous roles, “Fat Amy” in Pitch Perfect, felt different because, “it wasn’t a joke about being fat, that was part of her [Amy’s] personality and she owned it”.
She picked Bruno Mars’ Just the Way You Are, The Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston, and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life as her top tracks.
The mother-of-one also chose to take the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a bathtub complete with bath salts.
Desert Island Discs airs today at 10am on BBC Radio 4.