Rebel Wilson Would Never Work With Sacha Baron Cohen Again
Rebel Wilson would never go back on her “no a-holes policy,” no matter the payout. The Bridesmaids star said during a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that she would turn down $50 million pay day rather than work with Sacha Baron Cohen again.
During the Monday (April 8) appearance, the 44-year-old Australian actress played a game of Plead the Fifth where Cohen asked how much money it would take for her to work with Baron Cohen again. The comedic actors co-starred in the 2016 film The Brothers Grimsby.
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In the R-rated comedy, Wilson plays Dawn, the girlfriend of Baron Cohen’s dimwitted Kyle Alan “Nobby” Butcher, who assumes the role of an MI6 operative after he attempts to reconnect with his estranged brother Sebastian Graves (Mark Strong). The film also stars Penélope Cruz, Sam Hazeldine, and Cohen’s real-life wife, Isla Fisher (who recently announced their divorce after 13 years together).
When host Cohen pressed her, asking: “Twenty million? Thirty million? Fifty million?” Rebel Wilson would never do so, shaking her head and insisted that she wouldn’t work with the British comedian again. She doubled down on her policy and replied, “No money ever. I have a no a-holes policy.”
As we previously reported, the mother of one called out the Borat alum on social media for trying to silence her with threats to stop her from publishing her memoir, Rebel Rising. She wrote on her Instagram Stories at the time: “I will not be bullied or silenced with high priced lawyer or PR crisis managers. The ‘a–hole’ that I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is Sacha Baron Cohen.”
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She had previously referred to an unidentified “massive a–hole” whom she had once worked with, adding that the star had hired a crisis PR team and had started sending her threats after she claimed she would dedicate a whole chapter to him in her memoir and expose his behavior.
In her recently released memoir, Wilson accuses Cohen of wildly inappropriate behavior on the set of the film. Wilson claimed that Baron Cohen asked her to “stick your finger up my butt.” That wasn’t in the script, as Wilson told her co-star. He allegedly replied, “Look, I’ll just pull down my pants, you just stick your finger up my butt, it’ll be a really funny bit.” Per ET, Wilson wrote in her memoir that she was “now scared. I wanted to get out of there, so I finally compromised: I slapped him on the a– and improvised a few lines as the character.”
A spokesperson for Baron Cohen, 52, called Wilson’s passage about him to be “demonstrably false claims” that 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 The Brothers Grimsby.”
Wilson is currently recording her voice for the audiobook version of her memoir.
5 Pop Stars With Memoirs
With seemingly every celebrity out with a memoir these days, there aren’t that many in the world of pop music that have released memoirs. Though we thoroughly enjoyed actress Megan Fox’s series of poems in Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, it isn’t technically a memoir. Her first book was “written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me because of my silence. I’ve spent my entire life keeping the secrets of men, my body aches from carrying the weight of their sins.”
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Musicians connect with their fans through lyrics, giving the general public insight into their personal lives. When it comes to writing a book, however, music artists reveal things that are usually such private part of their upbringing and reveal their raw feelings. The world’s most famous musicians have released memoirs over the years.
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Huge names in the industry like Elton John, Dave Grohl, Bob Dylan, and Nina Simone have released memoirs of their extraordinary life. Many pop stars and celebrities have released more harrowing stories about their childhoods or terrifying tales from the industry.
For example, Alicia Keys’ 2020 memoir, More Myself: A Journey, the award-winning singer-songwriter wrote about her early childhood in Harlem and Hell’s Kitchen. In the “If I Ain’t Got You” singer’s memoir, she explored what it means to be a woman in the public eye and the journey she’s been on to discover her true self away from the spotlight.
From being famous, she discussed the loss of privacy surrounding her romantic relationships and the oppressive expectations of female perfection. Since Alicia rose to fame, she has struggled for years not fully recognizing or honoring her own worth. After withholding parts of herself for so long, she navigated her true identity throughout the book.
Take a look below at the 5 pop stars with memoirs:
