Rebel without a clue
redacted.
Rebel Wilson's autobiography was published a few weeks ago in the US, with a chapter dedicated to the fun she had with Sacha Baron Cohen on the set of Grimsby. I recall that when the film was released, she made some comment to the effect it hadn't been a overwhelmingly positive experience, dropping general hints of laddish behaviour
without naming names. And at the time I figured she was referring to him and his in-your-face-if-not-up-your-arse sense of humour.
Now, her book is to be released in the UK, but with the interesting bits redacted due to the peculiarities of the law in England and Wales
.* It mentions nothing of the peculiarities or otherwise of Scottish law. (shrug)
Nevertheless, Wilson's publisher, HarperCollins, remains bullish: Those sections are a very small part of a much bigger story and we’re excited for readers to know Rebel’s story when the book is released.
Wilson's fans will no doubt be unfazed by the deletions. And for those who're only interested in the juice on Baron Cohen, the details can be found easily enough elsewhere. But I think Wilson's being a bit two-faced, really.
Wilson told The Sunday Times that she believed her “Brothers Grimsby” costumes were chosen to “see all the cellulite on my thighs and a top to show the fattest part of my arm…like I was something to be laughed at and degraded because of my size.” She added: “It’s one thing for someone who is fat to exploit their size for comedy, but it’s another for somebody else to humiliate you.”
Michaela Zee, Rebel Wilson Claims ‘Brothers Grimsby’ Costumes Were Chosen to Show ‘Cellulite’ and ‘Fattest Part of My Arm’: ‘Like I Was Something to Be Laughed at and Degraded’, Variety
So it’s okay for a lardarse to put themself forward as the (blubber)butt of a joke, when it suits their career, but woe betide anyone else for running with it. Hmmm, I call that a double standard.
Her size was her whole shtick, at least during her early career. It may even have been the primary reason she was cast in the first place: a character actress who could rise—or, more accurately, sink—to Baron Cohen's level of puerile comedy, and who could whop his arse in a game of seesaw.
* According to a statement from Baron Cohen's representative: Printing falsehoods is against the law in the U.K. and Australia; this is not a ‘peculiarity’ as Ms. Wilson said but a legal principle that has existed for many hundreds of years.
Funnily enough, I was under the impression that printing falsehoods was also frowned upon in the United States of Lawyering-Up, but there you go. (shrug)