Actor and comic Rebel Wilson has been calling out an unnamed Hollywood star in social media posts over the previous week, alleging {that a} “massive a–hole” has been making an attempt to dam her memoir Rebel Rising from being printed.
Now, she has named that star as Sacha Baron Cohen — the celebrated, but controversial, comic behind the Borat and Ali G characters.
Wilson claimed in previous social media posts that the star, nonetheless unnamed on the time, had been sending her threats as a result of he was the topic of one of many chapters in her memoir.
In a Monday Instagram story, Wilson wrote that she is going to now not “be bullied or silenced by high priced lawyers or PR crisis managers.”
“The ‘a–hole’ that I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is Sacha Baron Cohen.”
Screengrab of Rebel Wilson’s Instagram story calling out Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Last week, the Pitch Perfect actor posted a cryptic video to her Instagram about how she now refuses to work with “a–holes.”
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“When I first came to Hollywood, people were like, yeah, ‘I have a no a–hole policy, means like, yeah, I don’t work with a–holes.’ I was like, ‘Oh yeah. I mean, that sounds sensible and logical. But then it really sunk in because I worked with a massive a–hole and yeah, now I definitely have a no a–holes policy.”
“The chapter on said a–hole is Chapter 23,” Wilson continued, holding up a duplicate of her memoir Rebel Rising. “That guy was a massive a–hole.”
In an Instagram story that has since expired, Wilson claimed that the star was “trying to stop press coming out about my new book.”
“But the book WILL come out and you will all know the truth.”
Wilson and Baron Cohen labored collectively on the 2016 movie The Brothers Grimsby, which Baron Cohen wrote and starred in. In the movie, Wilson and Baron Cohen are companions who share 11 youngsters. The film was largely panned by critics and seen as a low level in Baron Cohen’s profession.
Wilson was upfront on the time about how a lot she disliked working with Baron Cohen.
On the Kyle and Jackie O radio present in Australia, she mentioned Baron Cohen was persistent that she seem bare within the movie and he ultimately employed a physique double for her when Wilson refused.
“Every day he’s like, ‘Just go naked, it will be funny. Remember in Borat when I did that naked scene? It was hilarious.’ On the last day I thought I’d obviously won the argument and he got a body double to do the naked scene,” she mentioned.
When it got here time to shoot the ultimate scene of the film, Wilson claimed that Baron Cohen requested her to “stick your finger up my butt.”
Wilson mentioned she identified that there was no point out of this within the script however didn’t wish to come throughout as “a diva.”
“I’ll slap you once on the butt and that’s it,” she mentioned, in response to the radio interview.
Wilson’s memoir is slated to reach on April 2.
Baron Cohen has not publicly responded to Wilson’s allegations.
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