As reps for the Borat actor deny “demonstrably false” charges, the Australian actress refers to Baron Cohen as the “massive asshole” mentioned in her biography, Rebel Rising.

The “massive asshole” that Rebel Wilson alludes to in her upcoming biography, Rebel Rising, is Sacha Baron Cohen, with whom she collaborated on the 2016 film The Brothers Grimsby (known as Grimsby in the UK).

Additionally, according to the Australian actor, the actor from Borat is trying to stop the book from being published.

What Rebel Wilson said on social media.

Wilson posted the following statement on Instagram today: “I refuse to be intimidated or silenced by PR crisis managers or expensive lawyers. In ONE CHAPTER of my book, I discuss Sacha Baron Cohen as the “a**hole.”

Baron Cohen’s agents vehemently denied the claims of inappropriate behavior on set in a statement provided to the Guardian. They said as much.

Though we recognize that speaking up is important, there is ample detailed evidence that directly refutes these clearly untrue accusations. This evidence includes contemporaneous documentation, film footage, and eyewitness testimony from people who were present before, during, and after the creation of The Brothers Grimsby.

Prior to her announcement that they would be the topic of a book chapter, Rebel Wilson said in an Instagram post that a “massive asshole” she had worked with had hired a crisis PR firm and began threatening her. He is attempting to prevent news of her new book from being released, she wrote. “Yet you will all be aware of the truth when the book is published,”

Wilson posted the following ten days ago on Instagram: “When I first arrived in Hollywood, people said things like, ‘I have a no asshole policy, which means like, yeah, I don’t work with assholes.'” I said, “Oh yeah.” Well, that makes sense or makes sense. I worked with a huge asshole, so that’s why it really hit home for me, and I now have a strict no-assholes policy.

Rebel Wilson and Sacha Baron Cohen costarred as husband and wife in the film Grimsby.

In prior interviews, Wilson talked about her experiences in the filming process, stating that Baron Cohen pushed her to be nude before hiring a body double when she refused.

In 2014, Wilson alleged that Baron Cohen was so persistent that she threatened to phone their shared agent “and tell her how much you are harassing me” during an appearance on the Kyle and Jackie O radio show in Australia (Grimsby had a lengthy post-production period).

“Just go naked, it will be funny,” she said, continuing every day. Do you recall the sequence I did in Borat where I got naked? That was very funny. When he hired a body double for the nude scene on the final day, I felt like I had the argument won.

Rebel Wilson further said that during the last scene, Sacha Baron Cohen instructed her to poke her finger up his ass. “And I asked, ‘What do you mean, Sacha?'” That isn’t what the script calls for.

“Look, I’ll just pull down my pants, you just stick your finger up my butt, it’ll be a really funny bit,” he said. Rebel Wilson claimed that at last they came to an understanding: “You don’t want to be a diva, so I said I’ll slap you once on the butt and that’s it.”

Many people believe that Sacha Baron Cohen’s performance in Grimsby, which also starred Isla Fisher and Mark Strong, was his lowest point in his film career. In 2021, Baron Cohen made the following statement to the Guardian:

Every failure is challenging. But looking back, it was an amazing experience. I was following the path of a Hollywood comedy movie star, which requires producing a certain number of successful box office releases. Being freed from that was the best part about possessing a full bomb.

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