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Actor and comedian Rebel Wilson has been calling out the unnamed Hollywood star in social media posts over the past week, claiming a “huge a-hole” has been trying to block her memoir. Rebels Rise from being published.
Now, she has named that star as Sacha Baron Cohen – the famous, but controversial, comedian behind the characters Borat and Ali G.
Wilson claimed in past social media posts that the star, who is still unnamed at the time, had been sending her threats because he was the subject of one of the chapters in her memoir.
In an Instagram story on Monday, Wilson wrote that she will no longer “be bullied or silenced by high-priced lawyers or PR crisis managers.”
“The ‘a-hole’ I talk about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is Sacha Baron Cohen.”
Screenshot from Rebel Wilson’s Instagram story calling out Sacha Baron Cohen.
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Last week, the Perfect Pitch the actor posted a cryptic video to her Instagram about how she now refuses to work with “holes.”
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“When I first came to Hollywood, people were like, yeah, ‘I don’t have a no-hole policy, meaning, yeah, I don’t work with holes-and-holes.’ I was like, ‘Oh yeah. I mean, that sounds sensible and logical. But then it really sunk in because I was working with a huge hole and yes, now I definitely have a no holes policy.”
“He said the chapter on a hole is Chapter 23,” Wilson continued, holding up a copy of her memoir. Rebels Rise. “That guy was a giant a-hole.”
In an Instagram story that has since been taken down, Wilson claimed the star was “trying to stop the press from getting out about my new book.”
“But the book will come out and you will all know the truth.”
Wilson and Baron Cohen worked together on the 2016 film The Brothers Grimsby, which Baron Cohen wrote and stars in. In the film, Wilson and Baron Cohen are partners who share 11 children. The film was largely panned by critics and seen as a low point in Baron Cohen’s career.
Wilson was honest at the time about how much he disliked working with Baron Cohen.
On the Kyle and Jackie O radio show in Australia, Baron Cohen constantly said she appeared naked in the film and eventually hired a body double for her when Wilson refused.
“Every day he’s like, ‘Get naked, it’ll be funny. Remember in Borat when i did that nude scene? It was funny.’ On the last day I thought I had clearly won the argument and he got a body double to do the nude scene,” he said.
When it came time to shoot the final scene of the film, Wilson claimed that Baron Cohen asked her to “stick your finger up my head.”
Wilson said she pointed out that there was no mention of this in the script but she didn’t want to come across as a “diva.”
“I’ll hit you once on the butt and that’s it,” he said, according to the radio interview.
Wilson’s biography is set to arrive on April 2.
Baron Cohen has not publicly responded to Wilson’s allegations.
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