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Rebel Wilson Says Male Co-Star Sexually Harassed Her, Then Tried To ‘Destroy’ Her Career

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Rebel Wilson has revealed she was once sexually harassed by a male co-star who then tried to “destroy her career”.

The Pitch Perfect star detailed the “disgusting” incident in an interview with People in which she says the actor pulled down his pants and asked her to perform a sexual act.

She did not name the actor or say what film they were in together.

“He called me into a room and pulled down his pants,” Rebel recalled.

“It was awful and disgusting,” she added. “And all the behaviour afterwards — this was all before #MeToo — where they kind of tried to destroy me and my career. If it had happened after #MeToo, then I could have just blasted them.”

The 42-year-old star, who trained as a lawyer before she found fame on screen, documented the incident and told others what had happened.

She eventually finished the film with the unnamed actor, saying she wanted to “do the right thing, be a professional” but says with hindsight, she would never do that now.

Rebel Wilson
Rebel Wilson

“Why did I stay in that situation … with that awful guy?” she said. “I should have left. It wasn’t worth it. But at the same time, I was like, ‘Oh well, do the right thing, be a professional and finish the movie.’ Now I would never do that.”

The actor says that after complaining to the film studio behind the movie, she discovered she wasn’t the first person to make a complaint.

“I thought even complaining to my agency was a big step,” she said. “And to complain to the studio. I found out I was like the fourth person to complain about the guy. Such gross behaviour, but a lot of women have had it way worse.”

Read the full interview with Rebel here.

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Margot Robbie To Presumably Rob Someone In Ocean’s Eleven Prequel

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Collecting roles in beloved franchises like infinity stones, Margot Robbie is set to star in and produce an upcoming Ocean’s Eleven prequel.

On the heels of major buzz surrounding her roles in Barbie and a Pirates Of The Caribbean spinoff, Margot will team up once again with Bombshell director Jay Roach for a new entry in the blockbuster heist franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

No additional details about the Warner Bros. film have been released, except that the project will be an “original Ocean’s Eleven that is set in Europe in the 1960s” with a script from Carrie Solomon.

The film is still currently in development and has not been officially greenlighted by the studio, per the outlet, which notes that the “goal is to begin production spring 2023”.

Loosely inspired by the 1960 Rat Pack movie of the same name, Ocean’s Eleven hit cinemas in 2001 with director Steven Soderbergh at the helm and a megawatt cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.

The film’s critical and commercial success paved the way for two more sequels from Soderbergh and a female-fronted spinoff Ocean’s 8 in 2018, which starred Sandra Bullock as the sister to Clooney’s character, Danny Ocean.

In total, the franchise has grossed over $1 billion at the global box office, becoming a jewel in the Warner Bros. film slate.

As for Margot, she has a slew of high-profile projects on the horizon.

In addition to starring in Gerwig’s Barbie, which she is also producing under her banner LuckyChap, the Oscar nominee is set to appear in David O’Russell’s period drama Amsterdam, as well as Damien Chazell’s Babylon alongside former Ocean’s cast member Brad Pitt.

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Viola Davis Says A Director Once Called Her By His Maid’s Name

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Viola Davis recalled a microaggression she experienced decades ago as she discussed how race has impacted her Hollywood career.

Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival for a powerful Women In Motion conversation on Thursday, the Oscar-winning actor said an unnamed director once referred to her by his maid’s name. “And I’d known him for like, 10 years,” she said. “And he called me Louise, and I found out it was because his maid’s name was Louise.”

“I was maybe around 30 at the time, so it was a while ago. But what you have to realise is that those microaggressions happen all the time,” she explained.

The actor also spoke about times she’d been told she wasn’t “pretty enough” for certain roles. “It breaks my heart, and it makes me angry,” she said. “For many reasons. A lot of it is based in race. It really is. Because let’s be honest; if I had my same features and I were five shades lighter, it would just be a little bit different.”

Viola recently starred as Michelle Obama in The First Lady, which wraps up its 10-episode season in June, and also recently released her memoir, Finding Me.

She’ll also star in The Woman King, a historical epic inspired by true events in the Dahomey kingdom, a former West African state in what is now Benin.

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Queer As Folk Is Back And Ready To Grapple With Modern LGBTQ Issues

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The disco thump of Babylon returns to a more diverse world in the first trailer for US streaming service Peacock’s hotly anticipated reimagining of the landmark series Queer As Folk.

The new series follows a group of LGBTQ friends in New Orleans whose livelihoods are thrown into disarray following a tragedy that recalls the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre. Based on the early footage, there are also compelling storylines involving politics and parenthood, not to mention plenty of sex.

Actors Fin Argus, CG, Jesse James Keitel, Ryan O’Connell, Johnny Sibilly and Devin Way are among the series regulars. The starry recurring cast includes Kim Cattrall, Lukas Gage, Juliette Lewis and Megan Stalter.

Created by Russell T. Davies, the original Queer As Folk premiered on Channel 4 in the UK in 1999 and followed three gay men in Manchester.

A US series based on the British iteration premiered a year later, with the acting moving to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and ran for five seasons.

Ryan O'Connell (left) and Johnny Sibilly star in Queer as Folk
Ryan O’Connell (left) and Johnny Sibilly star in Queer as Folk

Viewers are likely more familiar with the American series, which starred Gale Harold and Randy Harrison. The new Queer as Folk, however, is believed to be more in line with the British original.

And much like the Sex and the City revival And Just Like That…, the new series appears to have greatly diversified its storytelling, adding more actors of colour, as well as transgender and gender nonconforming people, into the mix.

In an emailed statement, Russell T Davies described the 2022 iteration of Queer As Folk as “more diverse, more wild, more free, more angry ― everything a queer show should be”.

“I’m very proud of what we achieved in 1999, but in queer years, that was a millennium ago,” explained Russell, who serves as an executive producer on the reboot. “As a community, we’ve radicalised, explored, opened up, and found new worlds ― with new enemies and new allies ― and there was so much to be said.”

Writer and director Stephen Dunn feels similarly and said he hopes to depict “an electric ensemble of fresh characters that mirror the modern global audience”.

“If there’s one person who is able to see Queer As Folk and feel less alone, or who now feels more supported and seen, our job is done,” he added. “In the true spirit of the original, our show doesn’t shy away from the harsh realities of our community, but above all else, the series is about people who live vibrant, vital, unapologetically queer lives.”

Queer As Folk debuts on Peacock in the US on 9 June, and will be available to stream via Starzplay in the UK from 1 July, with two new episodes airing each week.

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