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Rebel Wilson has waded into one of the great acting representation debates of our time. The Pitch Perfect star, who is engaged to a woman, branded the idea that "only straight actors can play straight roles and gay actors can play gay roles" as "total nonsense.” She was responding to a question…

UPDATE: Wilson’s attorney Bryan Freedman has responded to this report, and it seems from here like while her UK publisher lost its nerve by redacting the chapter about Sacha Baron Cohen in Rebel Wilson’s memoir, the author feels her version is the truth. “Rebel and I want to thank all the woman who have…

Rebel Wilson has made more claims regarding Sacha Baron Cohen's treatment of her, saying in an interview to promote her new memoir, that he set out to humiliate her when they worked together. Wilson's forthcoming memoir Rebel Rising includes her claims that the British actor sexually harassed her on…

The feud between Rebel Wilson and her former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen has escalated, with both actors accusing the other of making false claims. Wilson previously named the Borat star as the actor whom she accuses in her forthcoming memoir of behaving like "an a**hole" on a movie set. The pair…

Through a spokesman, Sacha Baron Cohen is disputing characterizations by actress Rebel Wilson that he behaved like a “massive a**hole” while shooting the Louis Leterrier-directed hard R-rated comedy The Brothers Grimsby. She played the wife of his character Nobby, a soccer hooligan who is enlisted by his…

Rebel Wilson is naming Sacha Baron Cohen as a previously unidentified Hollywood star who allegedly threatened her with legal action to try to block her memoir. In a post on social media, Wilson called out the Borat actor as the “a**hole” she wrote about in her book. “I will not be bullied or…

Sacha Baron Cohen and Chris Rock had the good sense to arrive early at the Jean-Michel Basquiat Made on Market Street exhibition at the  Larry Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills. They surveyed the 30 or so Basquiat art works in relative peace ,before the throng arrived. Cohen tells me he came…

A massive collection of some of Hollywood's biggest names have commended President Joe Biden for his “unshakable moral conviction” and helping to get home some of the hostages taken by Hamas in their terror attack against Israel. A letter to Biden posted Monday on the website NoHostageLeftBehind has…

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America hasn't said anything publicly about the savage attack on Israel by terrorists on October 7, and a number of irate showrunners and others will be discussing that silence Friday. Almost a week after dozens of high-profile WGA members put out an open letter reprima…

Sacha Baron Cohen is dusting off his beloved character Ali G, Deadline has confirmed. Cohen’s reprisal of one of his most famous satirical characters will come not via any new film or TV project in development, but rather as part of a stand-up tour that he’s been planning. More concrete details as to…

EXCLUSIVE: A hot European Film Market just got a little hotter. Sacha Baron Cohen and Nope‘s Keke Palmer are set to star in Super Toys. David O Russell wrote the script and will direct, and Atlas Entertainment's Charles Roven is producing along with Dreamcrew Entertainment's Matthew Budman…

There was much talk in the Kennedy Center Honors afterparty about one of the standout moments from the three-hour ceremony on Sunday: Sacha Baron Cohen’s return as Borat as part of the tribute to U2. Cohen, who has been highly critical of the spread of antisemitism on social media, used the…