Rebel Wilson auditioned for Melissa McCarthy's role in Bridesmaids and is still bitter

Melissa was perfect in that role. Rebel was entertaining but the performance was pretty flat overall.

How is this good PR? The woman needs to eat more feelings.

Rebel smelled blood in the water after that Ozempic comment from Babs and decided this was the right time to pounce on Melissa. I just love this messy bitch so much.

[quote]Melissa was perfect in that role. Rebel was entertaining but the performance was pretty fat overall.

There! Fixed it for you.

I would like to see Patsy Stone put a cigarette out in Rebel’s eye.

Melissa McCarthy's Oscar nomination was a plot against Rebel Wilson.

Between Rebel Wilson and Billy Porter its hard to tell who's been treated more harshly by Hollywood.

[quote]She claimed Melissa McCarthy only got the role because she was friends with Paul Feig

No no Rebel, it's because you have too many teeth

Has anyone ever seen Rebel Wilson and Bucky Pollard in the same room? Hmmm….

Ozempic, right?

She really has no desire to work again in the industry. She’s detonating every bridge possible.

Which is a good thing, as she’s a vile, talentless piece of shit.

How did Rebel Wilson ever become a thing? Her entire back story is sketchy as hell.

I mostly agree with everyone else here that all these complaints make her seem quite annoying.

But I do wonder if the tabloid press focuses more than usual on the complaints by famous women and/or POC because they knowing that “uppity, whinging women “ can just never be happy, and it feeds the outrage machine.

She wrote a book, right? You could cherry-pick complaints out of anyone’s memoir and drip them over months and, boy, the public would get over the person fast. (I better not write a book because I’ve got a few complaints…)

She's really nailing the Hollywood doors shut and I love it. Soon she'll be crying she's broke like Mo-nique.

Whether it's true or not, McCarthy is funnier and a better actress, so win-win.

That's like saying DiCaprio only got his role in The Departed or Killers of the Flower Moon because he's friends with Scorsese.

The correct title to this thread, OP is I'LL NEVER STOP BURNING BRIDGES VOWS FORMER ACTRESS AND FATTY REBEL WILSON

R9 here. That should be Vicky Pollard. Thanks, ObamaCorrect!

Not smart.

Has anyone read her book? Does she have anything nice to say about anyone?

Rebel is bitter now that she's not the only former fattie making headlines.

Overrated. I do laugh at the OTT bridal shower going off the rails

Rebel Wilson is a one note wonder. Melissa McCarthy is a much much MUCH better actress. Rebel can suck it.

She probably thought losing all that weight would turn her into a blonde bombshell and her phone would be ringing off the hook with movie offers.

That didn't happen so now she's out for revenge.

[quote]Soon she'll be crying she's broke like Mo-nique.

Isn't Rebel's wife independently loaded? Something tells me she'll be just fine financially. As for her need for attention, I'm seeing entry into the Australian reality show circuit in her mid- to distant future.

Her full name is Rebel Melanie Elizabeth Wilson.

I've got the most scathingly brilliant idea!

I'm going to call her "Rebel-Ann."

Because she's a cunt like my cousin is.

I'm still made than McCarthy did not make a sequel to Spy which was a lot of fun. The entire cast was pretty funny, especially Statham.

I actually think Wilson could have pulled that role off with a slightly different take, but McCarthy was spectacular. "Because she was friends with Paul Fieg" - that's how the world works, Rebel.

She’s so annoying. She was basically unknown in America when she auditioned. They still wrote a role specifically for her.

Rebel was supposed to be the lead in “Tar,” but Cate Blanchett was friends with the director.

She's done another interview where she said she auditioned for We Brought A Zoo but lost the role to Scarlet Johansson.

This was before Bridesmaids.

She thought she was seriously considered for a role opposite Matt Damon in the early 2010s

I'm starting to dislike this cunt more the Kartrashians.

R19 I read her book and she mostly loves everyone she's ever worked with except for Sascha Baron Cohen who gets an entire chapter. She mentions the Bridesmaid situation but did not sound bitter. She had been approached by Kristen Wiig who was a fan to audition for the part. When they gave her the lesser part she said she understood why and loved working with Matt as a consolation prize.

Her backstory doesn't sound made up. The family was aussie poor, 'bogan' is the term for their socioeconomic status. Her mother is now a sought after dog show judge, her Dad was a failed entrepreneur and a real asshole. She was always interested in performing but says it was a malaria-induced hallucination from the time she was camping in Mozambique that compelled her to try for stardom. A lot of the writing is predictably amateurish and boring but her rags-to-riches story is actually rather impressive.

Feig!

I dunno how many rags there were, R32. According to her Wikipedia page, which looks like it could have been written by her, she went to a private boarding school. Not one of the well known ones, which are wildly expensive, but any boarding school costs a lot of money, compared with the Australian public school system which is entirely free (except for extras like school excursions). She was brought up in the suburbs of Sydney, so it's not as if she was 6,000 miles from the nearest school and had to board.

"Bogan" doesn't mean "poor", though the people who qualify as bogan nearly all have lower socioeconomic status. It means something like the US "hicks" or "rednecks", though not necessarily with racial or violent connotations.

Her parents might have been common but they had enough money to send her to an expensive school.

I take your point R34, bogan describes a lack of sophistication and culture more than money. The expression rags-to-riches is not literal though, I meant to describe the huge leap Wilson made financially. And she said when her abusive father left he refused to give the family any money and their situation was quite dire for years.

Does her agent let her say stuff like that? Bad pr