Life Uncut - REBEL WITH A CAUSE! UNCUT with Rebel Wilson

Episode Date: January 17, 2022

We are back lifers!!!! It’s so nice to be here! We missed you. Hope you missed us a little bit ;)We are kicking off 2022 with the one and only, the incredible REBEL WILSON!Some of you say that Britt manifested this friendship and look, we aren’t saying that you’re wrong. 2 years after Britt slid into her DMs, we finally got to sit down and enjoy a nice glass of sparkling or still water with Rebel.We were lucky enough to visit her in her home in Sydney and boy oh boy did she not hold back. This accidentally unfiltered will probably go down in Life Uncut history as one of the funniest and most wild stories of all time.In our chat with Rebel we discuss:-The infectious disease that led her to becoming an actor-her path to Hollywood that was certainly unusual-her long standing friendship with the ‘Bella’s’ from Pitch Perfect who she still speaks to every day-Her first children’s book that she wrote to overcome shyness-Directing her first feature film this year-Her support of the Australian theatre company that helped her launch her career; and putting her money where her mouth is by donating a million dollars to it!-As well as her hall pass and her quite awkward encounter with them that led to rumours of them sleeping together!Rebel is such an intelligent, driven, ambitious and kind woman and we could not have enjoyed her any more!We kick off this ep with some chat about Drake and why you may have been seeing him and hot sauce memes floating around.Another thing that we’d like to thank you for is that we just celebrated 20 million downloads and there aren’t words to explain how insanely grateful we are for your ears! If you like the ep, we’d love a little review if you’ve got a spare sec!Tell your mum, tell your dad, tell you friend, tell your dog and share the love because well, we love love! Today's episode is brought to you by THE ICONIC. Shop your favourite brands of fashion, beauty, sports, kids, toys and more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey guys, and a big, big, big welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. It is our first official episode back of 2022 and we are so, so chuffed to be back in your ears. I'm Laura and this is Brittany. And God, it feels good to be back. How was everyone's holiday? Although I feel like that was already 25 months ago. Also, is that just a rhetorical question? Like everybody's sitting in your cars right now, wherever you're listening to this podcast.

Just give us like 10 seconds. Answer, how was it? Did you get the spicy cough? Are you feeling okay? Did you manage to avoid it? Not all of us did. Okay, Laura, that was a rhetorical question. I was just putting it out to the people.

You don't all have to DM me how your holiday was. But I do hope everyone had a really great break. And I did say this earlier, Laura. When is it that you stop saying Happy New Year? Oh, definitely. We've said it. You said this on the last episode. That's what I mean.

It's done. People are still in my inbox, Happy New Year. No, everybody in my inbox now is like, dear Laura, insert pleasantries about COVID. Like that's what everybody's email says at the moment. My email is, dear Brittany, happy new year. Following up on the hundred emails I have sent you over the last four months, can you please get back to me? Oh, it's because everyone's still, I know that we're at the 18th of January,

but everyone's still in that weird phase of like, are you back fully into work? Do you hate your life already? Does 2022 suck? Is it going to be amazing? Have you actually broken your new year's resolutions or managed to exercise every day for the past two weeks? If you have, good on you. I certainly haven't.

I think I'm going to jinx myself, but I'm pretty excited to say I still haven't been. I still haven't improved myself from last year. I haven't touched my New Year's resolution. I'm happy to say I am exactly the same amount of hot mess as I was in 2021. Nothing has changed and I feel good about it. New Year's resolutions are always a bit too ambitious for me. I will never not be a hot mess. I don't think that day is ever going to come.

No, what I'm going to say is I feel like I just spend every day now and it's a gamble. I'm like, when's it going to happen? Everyday dodging COVID. I am one of the people that have somehow managed to live in the epicentre of COVID, Bondi. I diagnosed COVID throughout the start of the pandemic when I was working in the hospital. I travelled to America where there was COVID.

I do not know how. I was around you, Laura, when you got diagnosed. I was like, great, Laura's ruined Christmas for me. Oh, me. It was me. I ruined Christmas for everybody. I was like, great, I've got COVID. Laura's got COVID.

Matt's got COVID. I'd been around all these people that got COVID. I was like, 100% I'm getting it. I've dodged it. I don't know how. And you watch, I'll probably get it tomorrow now that I've jinxed myself on the podcast. Did you see the media release that actually came out that if you don't get it by January, they give you a prize? Shut up. I'll take it. Anyway, guys, that is enough about the COVID chat. The word that shall never be said again. We have an awesome, awesome episode for you today. We are coming in as hot as we could possibly come in back at 2022. Steaming. Oh God.

we are steaming we are burning we are sizzling in this episode do you know who is steaming in this episode rebel wilson well part of rebel is steaming for sure britney finally used her powers for good she got rebel wilson rebel is on the pod she's here she joined us actually do you know what we joined her we went to rebel wilson's house we sat in her ridiculously bougie house she asked us if we wanted still water or sparkling water we rode in the elevator for fun we didn't even have to go upstairs we just did it her house is three levels and it has an elevator it's like it's a beautiful home yes with with beautiful water with a jetty anyway before we get into that we want to say a very big thank you to our sponsor who made today's episode possible and that is the iconic

now you guys already know that they are easily the best place to shop for fashion but there's so much more than that they're not just a fashion brand guys they are now a lifestyle brand they have women's men's kids sport beauty and homewares there is literally something for everyone so a very big thank you to the iconic for jumping on board today it has already been a bloody massive year first off the ranks is that we finally hit 20 million downloads and we wanted to say thank you so much to all of you who listened last year to every single person who supported the the podcast who's been part of the facebook group who's been part of the discussions every single one of you who's written a message to us saying that an episode has helped you in a way or you've given

us maybe you've messaged us and said hey you really should talk about this and we've taken your topic advice so we just want to say thank you so much because without you guys we never would have gotten to 20 million literally it still blows my mind that we have been listened to 20 million times laura and for those people that are new even in the last year i guess we've been around for about two and a half years now i think i just have to do the math but i think it's about two and a half years about 220 ish episodes can you believe we've spent that much time together every day it's insanity I've spent more time with you than I do with Matt and my own children I know we are the real love story here but I remember for those of you that are new and

haven't been with us from the very beginning first of all go back to the beginning and you'll have probably a lull at how far we have come and the difference in the records but I remember Laura and I doing our very first record and I remember we were saying to each other oh my god I hope someone listens to us how many people would you be stoked for and we were like we hope 500 people listen we hope 500 people we can reach it just went bonkers at the start but I think the first episode only got maybe like don't quote me 5 000 listens and Laura and I were beside ourselves we were just so excited that we had this new platform that we could speak to you guys that we could form this community and I think we just had no idea how far we would come and the community we would

create and for us the best part is the community we've said it so many times but we just cannot get enough of you guys and the love and the support and the bloody hilarity that you bring to life uncut well i think the best part of it is that we didn't really go i mean brit and i we did nothing special to create this community you guys created it yourselves we brought the content and you guys brought the conversation and i think it's just a testament to the fact that like dating's fucking hard we've all had really challenging experiences when it comes to being heartbroken and when it comes to trying to navigate what our love lives are and that's what this all started out as at the very beginning it was a space to be able to kind of wade through the shit of what

relationships are and there's something incredibly galvanizing I know I say the word galvanizing a lot because you guys have been talking about it in the Facebook group but there's something incredibly bonding over heartbreak and that's where it started Laura pulls up a thesaurus on her computer literally actually that was something that did come up over the Christmas break over the holidays and I really loved it and we're trying to work out a way that we can make something physical in this world somebody put together one of you fucking legends put together a drinking game and it was in the podcast it's like every time Laura says one of these words you take a shot every time Brittany says one of these words like lolcano you take a shot and I thought it was

brilliant and I thought there must be something in this that we can make a physical game that we give you guys that you can I guess just get drunk on but well done to whoever made that we absolutely loved it I had a really good chuckle the other quick thing that we wanted to tell you is we do have just such a huge year planned for you guys and one of the big things we're kicking off with is radio I'm sure that's not new to you because we've been so chuffed about it and so hyped about it we've spoken about it we've promoted it we've linked you we've done everything we can but we did have our first show last week just on the weekend I think it went well I don't know I was so nervous who fucking knows but we did it we've got the first cab off the rank and it can only get better

from here it can only get better from here now someone I want to talk to you about where things aren't going so well is drake please tell me you have read about the situation with drake and the condiment this spicy condiment i mean it's a saucy story guys this is the story that we nobody could have ever thought that 2022 was going to kick off with this but it's truly the story that has brought a lot of joy and also a lot of questions into my life if you haven't heard the story that has happened to Drake. It's been circulating in the news. I wouldn't say it's very reputable news sources. Like it's not been on news.com, for example. It's on Ladbible. I'll take it. It's on Ladbible. It's been on Daily Mail. But there is an Instagram model who has come out and accused

Drake of tampering with his condoms. Now, when I say tampering with his condoms, I don't mean that he has been putting holes in them or doing any of that. I mean, after he's ejaculated, he's tampering with the sperm his own sperm tampering with his own sperm to stop anybody from trying to steal his sperm which is just very there's a lot of questions around how you get to that point basically drake hooked up with an instagram model at a party and the alleged source goes like this after the party they went back to his hotel they smoked some weed for a bit and he asked if she wanted to have sex she said he was very intent on ensuring things were consensual he then went to the bathroom and came out with a condom on. After they'd finished having sex, Drake supposedly went

to the bathroom to dispose of the condom. Now the Instagram model who has gone unnamed has fished the condom out of the trash, untied it and put the opening of that condom into her vagina. She's tried to impregnate herself secretly in the bathroom after they've had consensual sex. Yes, but she was in for a bit of a surprise. She's in for a bit of a spicy surprise. Because Drake had put hot sauce into his own condom to try and kill the sperm thinking that maybe this was going to happen i there are so many things here that i just want to pick my drop off the ground on let's just start from number one who carries hot sauce but this is the okay this is the question did he carry hot sauce with the specific intention of using it to kill the sperm or was it just like

oh fuck i've got this sperm i'm worried she's gonna try and take it instead of i'll just quickly go and get the the food that i've ordered room service and i'll get some hot sauce from that yeah no he 100 and this is actually let's be serious for a minute this is very yes really really serious issue he has been carrying the hot sauce obviously i didn't know hot sauce killed sperm he obviously carries that because this is an issue for him he's obviously worried that women and it's probably not the first time that women are going to try and fall pregnant to him and i think that what a world we have to live in if you need to carry hot sauce and then pour it into your own used condom and I mean lucky he did because she tried to do it she literally tried to do it

yeah I know the story in itself is like pretty funny but if this was reversed like if this was a guy and a girl and the situation were reversed I don't think we would think of it as being so funny so I do think that we have to acknowledge that the conversation around consent here is very very problematic and this is a fucking huge issue that he even has to do it in the first place but the thing that makes this story so outrageous and wild is that the instagram model in question has come out and said that she is suing drake she is going to be the one to sue drake because of the damages that have occurred to her vagina after she tried to steal his sperm from the hot sauce because she was literally on fire so she i mean could you could you imagine putting a bit of

Tabasco in your ha ha and then but then trying to sue like in my mind surely there is no person on this earth that would let her win in this situation when she tried to steal his sperm from a condom and inseminate herself surely there is no judge in history that is going to say yes Drake you need to pay her damages for something that she did to herself I guess the question is is that maybe I mean if you're a lawyer I want to know like how is this going to play out an American lawyer though but maybe there's something around intent because if he's doing it knowing full well that someone is going to do that to themselves he's setting up a trap where someone's going to cause it's going to cause bodily harm to them even if the intention of them was something do

you know what I mean yeah but imagine imagine for example if you had someone try and break into your house and you thought someone's going to break in through that window and you set up an automatic gun or something that when they open the window it shot them you would be sued because you are the one who even though they tried to break in you caused harm to them so i think in this crazy fucked up world she might actually have some stance for suing him it's wild i will give up on humanity if that's the case if she actually wins but this is really a thing so when i when i delved into this there are there are whole basketball teams like nba teams there are a lot of sporting teams whose management tell them advise them they have group meetings they're

like if you go and hook up with a woman if you're having a one-night stand if you're doing whatever else you take your condom you tie it up you put in your pocket you put it in a bag you do not put it in a bin you do not leave it or you you make sure it is 100% disposed of it's obviously an issue that's reoccurring totally but what team manager is saying hey just get some hot sauce and put it in like tie it up and put it in your backpack can you imagine how much Drake's gonna it paid to do a hot sauce commercial on instagram right now he's gonna make more from a hot sauce company than he is from any of his music he did come out and say though he was a bit quiet he's he's released a photo and he's put one statement up and i think it was a bit of a power move it

was a bit of a nothing statement you didn't know what it was about but it's obviously about her he just put a photo up and said you can have your 15 minutes of fame i'll take the other 23 hours and 45 minutes oh saucy saucy boom well played I like it don't I mean look we just we thought 2021 had everything it could possibly offer us 2022 has given us this wonderful little gem of a story and like we said earlier I know that there are some big conversations here around consent and we're not making jokes of that it's just the absolute outrageousness that I can't even believe that this is a story I can't even believe that that's where we're at no no and it is very serious we're joking because it's hot sauce but it's very serious it's a very serious issue of consent but

it's important to note that by all accounts and from the instagram model that this was very much consensual on drake's behalf the sex that is the rest of it was not so i'm interested to see how this plays out i think that nothing's going to surprise me anymore but follow this very very tightly all right well we do have a huge episode for you today it is a long one but you know what it's one that you can listen to when you drive to work and then come home from work put it on when you're in the shower it's going to be the gift that keeps on giving but we're going to get into our favorite segment which we do on every episode and that is accidentally unfiltered and confessional oh you have a confessional i'm bringing a confessional today all right i've gotten

accidentally unfiltered i'm gonna go first this one is not disgusting which i love the fact that we need to preface it with that all right here we go i went on a first date with a guy from hinge and it ended up being a great night we went oh that is funny we went listen to you pissing yourself at your own joke she's fucking gone for gold it's probably the best one i've done and that's the end of the episode thanks for listening we went from one bar to another we had great conversations and he ended up coming back to mine in the morning we woke up and went to go get brekkie together and before we left

i was talking about someone i thought may have been a mutual friend of ours i went to look them up on facebook with him standing right next to me and up pops my facebook search history showing that i'd stalked not only him but his brother and his grandfather hey what's up pops i was really doing my due diligence before the date i went down a full-on rabbit hole trying to find out as much information as possible he was obviously really taken aback and wouldn't stop bringing it up over breakfast safe to say there wasn't a second date as I tried to come up with every excuse under the sun as to why I had looked up his brother and his grandfather and how I even knew their names in the first place okay the brother I get I totally get that the grandpa

what you tell me what information are you gonna get from someone's pop that's just it right like even if you do find the granddad it's gonna be one family photo yeah like what like how deep are you're gonna get there pop's not hitting vegas with him they're not going out partying they're not dropping dollars maybe she maybe she wanted to see a couple more photos maybe she wasn't convinced about maybe his instagram was a little bit obscure because you know how some people just pose like moody you can half see their face they look way hotter than they do in real life maybe she was like pops will have a really authentic family photo this is gonna be unfiltered oh okay well i've got one that's similar i have a confessional but now after hearing you're

accidentally unfiltered i might just bring an accidentally unfiltered as well because it ties into that so i'm where you can try to one up my accidentally unfiltered are you like mine's not as funny as yours so i have another funny one it's just a perfect tie in like it's a perfect okay i could just run accidentally unfiltered all day so my ex got a new girlfriend and i was absolutely devastated relatable my best friend asked me on a walk to take my mind off it as i'm walking to meet my friend i'm doing my hourly stalk of my ex's new girlfriend as you do because we all do it she posted a photo of them together me being the dramatic girl that i am i burst into tears i put my phone in my pocket and i ran hysterically to meet my friend as i as i got to my friend i

pulled out my phone to show him the photo only to realize that i had run with my phone unlocked whilst i was running my phone pulled a swifty on me it decided to not only share my ex's post to random people via message but also to reshare the photo on my story safe to say my ex's new girlfriend knows i'm an absolute freak show can you imagine i mean you did this a long time ago but can you imagine can you imagine you pull up your phone and your ex has shared a photo of you and your new partner like kissing or something on their story do you fuck i can yes i can imagine this because okay i told this story going back like two years ago i can imagine this because it was me if you're an OG listener you'll know the story but if you're not this will be new to

you because this was possibly the most mortifying thing I've ever done in my entire life my ex boyfriend there was a bit of overlap in my relationship with him and his ex-girlfriend right and it made me crazy because okay so that's a cute way to say it was cheating well I don't know it was a cute little overlap I didn't know at the time right but there was something that was amiss like I found out later in the relationship there was a bit of an overlap but it made me crazy that he was still in contact with his ex-girlfriend when we had started dating and yeah I was like you know I was always stalking her Instagram oh not Instagram wasn't around then I was always stalking her Facebook I was stalking her MSN her Tumblr she had a Tumblr do you guys

remember that she had a blog and she would always put up photos and videos and things that were like aimed at him or songs that were aimed at him so I was always stalking her Tumblr anyway I got the wind beneath my wings you are the wind no she put up that gotcha song you know the one which is like somebody that i fucking can't oh my god i can't believe you know yes it traumatized me i was traumatized anyway i got onto her facebook this one day and i was like you know back in the day where the search bar and the status update were kind of right next to each other so i had fat fingers you're in a lot of trouble i typed her entire name into my status update and updated my status for five hours to your ex-boyfriend's ex-girlfriend's name and then I went to work

and I got a phone call at three o'clock in the afternoon and my boyfriend at the time was like hey Laura I think you might want to change your status on Facebook and all these people had just written question marks underneath like question marks question marks like I could have died I hate myself I still hate myself now if she's listening I'm sorry I'm not crazy anymore I love that you actually just drew her name out as well. So many people know us. I probably should edit that out. I think we need to change the name.

Let's beep the name. Okay, producer Keisha, that's your job. Beep out the name. Okay, yeah, that's embarrassing. Anyway, okay, give me your last one. Give me the confessional. Okay, I'm going to give you a confessional because I feel like I'm sorry, but I cannot repent.

I mean, you cannot repent here with us. I have PTSD from that. Bring me your confessional. Okay, I have a confessional. It is a bit more of a serious confessional. I do not feel like you can repent here, but thank you for trying and thank you for sharing. You definitely need to go and speak to someone that can do it for you properly.

Like a counsellor. No, like a priest. Like the police. When I was seven, my local church left their doors unlocked, so me and my cousins went inside snooping. They had a Christmas tree set up with heaps of wrapped up beautiful presents. We unwrapped every single one. we picked out what we wanted and we took them home a week later somebody snitched on us we had

to return all of our new toys and attend sunday school for a month as punishment the worst part is the presents were for underprivileged kids in a third world country oh that's cool am i a bad person yes yes seven or not i am glad there was a little snitch that dogged you in but i just think at seven okay in all honesty at seven you don't really know what you're doing you're like oh mom's never gonna buy me that that truck i'm gonna take that truck you do know what you're doing but guess what people change i'm a different person to who i was when i was seven well i hope at 27 she's not stealing from under the christmas tree anymore but bless your soul all right well let's get into what you all actually came here for because i'm sure it wasn't that but we do have rebel wilson

on the podcast and if you've been following along for a little while it's a long time coming you'll know that sporadically over the last 18 months rebel's name has been brought up for a multitude of reasons and that brit also just likes to like drop her onto her instagram feed like that cool casual friends you guys know rebel's name has been dropped a multitude of times over the last 18 months she was always someone that i loved as an actress i just was obsessed with her i tried to get her on the podcast a few times like when laura and i wrote our list of who we want to speak to in life we both brought the list to each other and we thought some of them were like real big shots who were like, we're never going to get these people. Rebel was always on my list. Fast

forward and I met her in real life. She's a big tennis fan. Obviously I was traveling with Jordan. We met, we became very, very fast friends. She's, she's a really, really incredible woman. Someone that you were, I mean, you're going to learn that for yourself very soon. She's a bit of an unexpected package, but we did become friends. We do hang out now. She, I have nothing but amazing things to say about it. And I know Laura, you were quite surprised when you met Rebel. She's probably not what people think she is well I feel like people would think that she's a huge personality and like always like she's very funny but I feel like you would expect that she's a bit more on all the time and I think she's she's just she's so warm she's so lovely she's incredibly

intelligent like like fiercely smart and just a really awesome person to sit down and have a chat with but one thing that Brit hasn't shared is the fact that she slid into her DMs many moons ago and that is a story that Brit finally shares with Rebel. The cool factor that Brit has been, you know, Rebel thinks that Brit's cool. I don't think she does. It's finally dropped. The facade is finally gone. No, look, we told the story in the pod. You'll hear about it in a minute, but I, I mean, I slid into Rebel's DMs before I knew her trying to get her on the podcast. And then when I met her, I was hoping that that wasn't a thing, but we're going to get into that. I'm not going to talk too much about it now, but there are a lot of things you guys are going to learn

about Rebel. Some things you may already know, like the fact that she's a lawyer and she does a lot of humanitarian work, but other things you might not know, like she was just included in the BBC 100 Women for 2021. So that was just in December, along so many inspirational women. But it's really just celebrating women doing amazing things for the world, amazing things in their career. And we are all about celebrating women. So let's get into the chat with Rebel. Well, there is someone you guys have been requesting to come on this podcast for a very, very long time and there is somebody I haven't even introduced yet okay all right shut up until

and there is someone that I have been trying to get on this podcast for longer than you know or actually I did tell you about it but I'm very excited to finally welcome the one and only Rebel Wilson to Life Uncut. Hi Britt, hi Laura. Awesome to be here ladies awesome. We're sitting in your house so thanks for having us at your place to record. It was more convenient for me just you guys rock up. Yeah. And you brought snacks as well. Now, look, I just want to kick off. I have a question. I'm going to put you on the spot here. I have something I've wanted to know for a long time. I haven't asked you in person yet. You can be so honest. It's not going to offend me. All right. I've sat on this rebel for two years. What is this? Did you know who I

was before we met in real life yeah I think I did from Jono who trained me okay is that right do you know Jono oh you're telling the story but how long has this podcast been about two and a half years I've definitely listened to like one or two of the podcasts I'm loving how uncomfortable right now we're all sitting here like what are you guys okay so sorry but I never saw your bachelor which is weird because I do love bachelor and bachelorette but I never saw your season You guys were in the same season? No, we were on different seasons. I feel like our friendship wouldn't be quite as strong

if we were competing for the same man. No, she won Maddie J. They've got kids and engaged and I got dumped by the honey badger. They're like literally the two seasons I haven't watched. There was something about Jono said something about this chick wanting to get into acting or something and I'm pretty sure that was you. Okay, so this is the story, right? Yeah.

I don't know if I've told you this but you have always been, whenever I've done interviews after TV whenever anyone's asked me about it they're like who's your inspo I was like Rebel Wilson I fucking love her I think I'm not just like kissing your ass it's what I've always said you know people are like why and I'm like she's so funny she's a great actress she's so smart she's a lawyer you know she went to Hollywood at 30 she wasn't 20 like everybody else she really paved her own way I think this is why I love her and I've been trying to get you on the podcast when Laura and I said who do we want to interview I was like I would love to get rebel wilson i have slid into your dms i don't know if you remember but you actually

wrote back to me and i yeah but i didn't was it me though i don't think so and this is the question i don't think it was you so one day sometimes my team i don't really look at the dms because i get crazy shit on the dm so i don't really look at them and i also get down like you can see i get like a thousands a day so before i slid into your dms i woke up one morning to which was the most exciting day of my life i told everyone on the podcast i woke up to an instagram message that said rebel wilson started following you and i was like oh obviously it's a rebel wilson fan account because someone's heard that you know i think she's a great actress and i went into it and it was you and i lost my shit i was like how is my favorite actress following me i was like we didn't

have any mutual friends we'd never spoken i was beside myself yeah and then i said on the podcast i was like evidently she's either tried to stalk me and it's been a slip of the finger or i've been on the explore page and she's accidentally pressed follow I was like anyway I'm giving this two weeks max before I pop back in a feed and she's like who the fuck is that and unfollow me the two weeks to the day you unfollowed me the funny thing is is that Britt has told this story on the podcast before about how you followed her on Instagram how she slid into your DMs and then everyone who listens is being like Brittany manifested a friendship with Trevor Wilson through this Instagram mishap I was like there's no way she actually cares about me or

wants to follow me a slip of the thumb or it's not you and someone else is managing your account i've done it anyway i i got two weeks of it that when john i mentioned it that i like went on and then just thought she's boring as fuck i'll unfollow and then i and then you were like look at all these purse straps and then damn that could be real like i could have it could have been me i think really you just thought i was but yeah it was one of my team yeah anyway you gave me two weeks two weeks of happiness before you took it away but isn't that weird that we then ended up meeting well then I wrote you and I said I tried to play it cool but I was like you know like we'd love to have you on the podcast you know I do all these interviews and we've had some great

people and and then you wrote back not you I'm doing you in inverted commas is obviously like someone on your team the fact that you actually wrote back I even said that in the podcast I was like look rebel did get back to me she declined you were like no you apply you were like yeah look that's great congratulations on your success you were really sweet okay you're like I'm really busy at the moment but I would love to one day when my schedule clears so here we are 18 months later professional of your PR team yeah wait I followed you for two weeks you followed me and then I also manifested how long maybe it took and then I realized maybe and then I said why am I following yep that's what I said I said she's gonna realize soon I'm gonna post something I'm

gonna come up in her feed because you only followed like two or three hundred people I was like she doesn't know she's done it I was like there's no other reason for her to have done it yeah and you did you obviously saw a post and you were like what the fuck I bought mission immediately sorry for playing with your emotions yeah I'm sorry Brit I also love that this is the first time you've ever said this story and that you've been holding on to this for weeks now well I knew the time would come and you should get on the podcast one day right I'm here I'm here I'm ready do you know what I'm excited for it's how we start every single one of our interviews not this one apparently we've got it we had a special treat for you I know a special little surprise

we start our episodes the same way that is asking for your accidentally unfiltered story your most embarrassing story that you're going to share with everyone and I hear you have one that you haven't told before Brit pre-warned me about this last night and I go well I've got a story about shitting myself and she's like yep yep then I have a sex story that was like quite quite embarrassing as well. She's like do you think I should tell poo or sex and I'm like girl both. Britt said she wanted both stories so I was like oh my god. And these never before told stories. Well I might have told the shitting myself story but the other one definitely not publicly. So I think you might remember when we were in Los Angeles with Jordan we went on that hike. Yeah. So that hike is like

a classic hike that I do in LA it's in Griffith Park and I love ever since I first moved to Hollywood I love it because you can see the Hollywood sign and I think the Hollywood sign brings me luck give it a little kiss when I see it I'm like yes and anyway so one day anyone who's like an emotional eater might or had struggles with food or whatever might you know understand this story but I was like having a bit of a down day I ordered like a whole pizza for lunch my sad one bedroom apartment and just like ate the whole pizza and I feel like I had like a thing of two liter of pepsi or something like that as well and just like downed it and then I started feeling like even more sad and a bit depressed because I was like why did I just go

and eat all of that so I'm like you know what I'm gonna fix this I'm gonna go out for a walk so I go on the hike and you know it's hiking uphill and feeling like I was feeling very sluggish after eating I mean that would have been probably thousands of calories and then I was like yeah okay but I'm burning it off now so I slowly and then I start coming down the hill and there's kind of houses between my house and and the park and then I like just get this instant feeling like I've got to go to the toilet like I can't make it the few streets back to my place oh when it hits you it hits you yeah and it hit me and I was like it was all inside and it just had to come out and I was like but okay I'm feral like I'm just in like leggings like I don't look nice I don't have

any makeup on or whatever like i'd been in the movie bridesmaid so i was kind of recognized like not a superstar or anything but i was kind of recognizable so i was like oh geez and then i was like then i was like so i'm like in the residential street there's house on both sides and i'm like okay i got it i gotta like go like should i just ask somebody and then i was like i can't what am i gonna do just knock on their door and say can i use your what do you do what do you do it was too far to walk i knew there was a toilet at the park it was too far to walk back like i wouldn't have made that either and then i wouldn't definitely wouldn't have made my house like i was trying to hold it in i couldn't so i'm like i'm just gonna have to go in somebody's front yard

no and then i was like i just have to and then i saw this nice house and then and then i'm like i'm just gonna do it but there wasn't any coverage it wasn't like there were shrubs and bushes so you could hide behind so just on the lawn like a dog yeah pretty much so there was kind of a bush but it went to the side so it didn't really provide much coverage so I just went near that and I just had to like I literally had about 30 seconds logistically speaking how far off the road are we are we talking like two meters off the footpath are we talking this is a deep property it's had a nice front garden but I was probably four meters from like you know it was very grass you know it was a grassy um nice nicely mowed grass and I was like this is the one I've got it I can only I

could only make a radius of a few houses like I did and I was like okay that's the one but there was no coverage like there was no tree or something I could go behind like it just wasn't like that on that street if it was running down your leg or something like that'd be bad that'd be really bad so anyway i squat in the person's front yard and then you know i'm just kind of frozen and i'm just going what if somebody sees this like what if what if you were papped but then dumb i know because i often get papped there and so like going on the hike but then a car pulls in the driveway yeah no no you can't ride it was like it was on the curb in the curb so not in the driveway the driveways right there but so it must have been a visitor to the house and then I'm like they're

gonna see me if they get out of that car they're gonna see me so my mind because I'm still squatting on their front lawn like yeah like it's so disgusting like I can't even my mind goes if they come and say something I'm just gonna scream I'm pregnant I'm pregnant I don't know why that was my thing and why do you have to scream it at them this is just what I was like gonna say because you've got to say something and then the man gets out and I'm like if he walks into the house like he's you cannot miss me like you can't but I'm frozen and then he walked to the other house oh and he didn't see me so I just pulled up my pants and then I left imagine if they had like a video cam or something to check back there's Rebel Wilson doing a poo in the front yard

I know but I wasn't like super super famous like I'd done Bridesmaids which was a big hit but I wasn't like I don't think my name face recognition as we call it in the business was that strong at that point but do you know how I was like that is like my worst nightmare does anyone remember the articles that used to come out about the poo jogger in Sydney there was someone who was doing it every morning outside of Roxy Jacenko's office they became known as the poo jogger they would just go to the toilet in people's front yard yeah they were going for a run every morning and purposely doing a poo in the front yard of people's houses it was not if you look at the timeline it's like every time she's back i swear to god it wasn't but if anyone is listening and maybe they

owned a house in los feliz and was very confused by what had happened and now they understand just know i'm very very sorry and uh it won't happen again and i hope that those nutrients went into the ground and maybe that beautiful little shrub that we were squatting behind is now a big flourishing tree i know what's good for them they'll call it the rebel bush anyway i love that story embarrassing yeah i do want to know your sex story so that one wasn't enough of embarrassment no i don't know how you could have a worse one but i'm really happy that you do okay with this one uh well i can't place the because i don't want people to know who it was with very handsome ex very handsome well that's all i'm gonna say shut up shut up or i won't say

it so it was a very handsome ex and i was yeah what do i say like i was giving a blow job it was the situation everyone was having a great time uh i finish and i came up to like give a kiss on the mouth you know get some air yeah and as i was coming up he accidentally elbowed me in the eye like right in the eye and the shock of it because it was just it was just a freak accident like he obviously didn't didn't mean to do it he was in so much joy he loved the blowjob so much he didn't realize and and it was just the weird angle of the elbow connector as I was coming up and then it was actually very painful so I started crying so I just curled up and started crying because there was something about giving someone pleasure or whatever and then being hit

in the face oh yes there was something about it that just like really upset me and then I was crying and it was just the shock of it as well and then he didn't know what to do and then I was horrified that he then told his mother the story later that night I don't know why you would tell your mother that story but uh he did so you were together and he sat down with his mom in front of you and no it wasn't in front of me I just found that out later wow I kind of sent him home after that after giving him a blow you've been smacked in the face yeah well it was obviously an accident but I was just upset by it and I started crying and I didn't mean to start crying like I know it was an accident but I was just crying like like what's the point of telling the mother I don't

know but I was not when I was invited to family Christmas I was not gonna go because of that reason because she knew that she knew about that story the son a blowjob yeah do you think it was though because like maybe he didn't know if his reaction was the right reaction like maybe he didn't come in the right way yeah and so you were obviously upset so then he was like mom what do I do here yeah because I think he initially laughed right oh there was a slide because he didn't realize but it was so it was just a straight sharp elbow connect right to my eye so I was like it was painful like not okay yeah not the best sexual experience yeah no it wasn't rebel tell us a little bit about who you were before you are the rebel wilson

completely changing subject just for you thank you laura I want to know a little bit about your childhood where you grew up and what was school like for you well I actually love school but I grew up in sydney's like western suburbs i went to school castle hill primary school with now one of the richest men in australia was in my class there was um scott farquaad who he was one of the founders of atlassian isn't he in shrek i was gonna say everyone listening to this is thinking lord farquaad no no no and uh and he was the kid that him and i i was very good at maths as a child and he was obviously a genius as well and then we would always compete in in maths and i think in year six I think he got he got first or second in the grade and I got third and then I was like I

knew that kid was gonna do something great and then he did anyway so I went to Castle Hill primary school and there was something in the water like so many talented kids and stuff have come out of that it was just like a regular public school and then then I went to an all-girls Christian high school called Tara which people might know in Parramatta and then my high school I was like the dorkiest girl at the start I was in the cool group for like two weeks then get kicked out because i didn't i refused to smoke behind the gym i was like no i'm not a i'm not doing it and then i get kicked out of the cool group and then i was like a nigel for like almost two years after that because all the other groups had formed in high school so i didn't have

a group so i would just sit in the library by myself and stuff oh rebel no friends yeah i know it's because i didn't fall for the peer pressure and then i lost out but look at you now yeah But so then I was like, oh, screw this, I'm going to become popular and then did and, like, it became popular. And then I loved school so much that I ended up being a boarder at school because I was just really into everything at the school and we did plays and musicals and we did lots of sports and everything and I was just so into it.

Some of my friends boarded as well. Boarding school can be crap for some people but I actually really loved it. So you would describe yourself as a nerd? Yeah, nerd in that. I was very academic and you know smart and yeah and weirdly like good at maths and stuff which a lot of the other kids hated like how do you just get a hundred percent I'm like oh it's easy like it was now you want to be my friend yeah but no but like all my friends at Tara were very the same like smart but good girls very ambitious like one of my besties is now a lawyer in Manhattan

the other one lived in Paris for many years like crushing it in business and got an MBA and we all were just ambitious young ladies who got taught that we could do anything with our lives and like went out there so it was kind of cool to be like that by the end of high school not certainly not in the beginning but it became cool to be like the smart successful girls yeah and were you always into drama and arts at school or did that come later yeah but I never did it as a subject but with the king's boys next door we did plays and musicals and that to me was like probably like the highlight and I never thought I would be a professional actor or anything but I loved it like I loved what we did at the school and they were kind of we had there was a multi-million

dollar theater at that boys school and we just had an awesome time putting on the productions and that's why like I didn't finish at night like until like 11 p.m till after the show or whatever so that's why I lived at the school eventually because I was just doing so much there. But also I mean everyone knows you for acting and when you say you're ambitious and so academic at school yeah what a lot of people probably don't know is that you also went on to study you did a law degree like there's so many more facets to your life before you actually got into being a full-time actor as your career yeah well i never thought i always thought i would go into law and politics great just so you know telling all my embarrassing stories bring that up if i ever run yeah

story people just talking about you come into local politics and they're like oh well reba wilson did shit in someone's yard once yeah that'll come up but don't worry guys you can't blackmail me with it because I've been very open about it and explained the whole situation so I always thought I would go into law or politics I got into like the the best law school after I got my HSC results and was like yep and then I was selected I was a youth ambassador for Australia which was a program that Rotary was running at the time and they sent one boy and one girl to different countries and I got sent to South Africa and had like a life-changing experience going to southern africa for a year and not knowing anybody and it was crazy then i got the malaria there

which was really bad you got malaria had a vision that i was i was an actress hang on you were speeding through this story i know well this time so you're in africa yeah for a year yes you get malaria yeah it was terrible i got a really bad strain so i was hospitalized i caught it in rural mozambique but it takes about two weeks to develop in your system and then i was very very sick got hospitalized with another girl that was on the trip as well and then it was bad it was like this it's hard to describe it's not like a cold or flu it's like you out of your body kind of thing and you're like hallucinating and everything and then I was like I had this vision that I won an academy award that I was an actress and that I was really good and I came out of hospital saying guys I'm

gonna I think I've got to leave Africa like immediately go back to Australia I've got to audition for the drama school I'm gonna be like the next Dame Judi Dench or something like rebel like no like you're not an actress like because I definitely didn't I wasn't glamorous like I was you know an academic girl like I wasn't glamour I didn't look like Nicole Kidman or Cate Blanchett or something so your catalyst for getting into acting your catalyst that was the driving force for you to go cool I'm gonna take this and and pivot my career seriously was malaria yeah wow because sometimes they say if you get really sick if you have a life-changing event like that it can really change the course of your life and I used to love Oprah well I mean

obviously I still love Oprah I shouldn't say used to I do all the time and I used to watch her every day in Africa because it was really hard there was a lot going on in South Africa at the time and post-apartheid and a lot of violence and everything and there's a lot going on and so I would watch Oprah every day love it and she'd say oh the universe like sometimes it gives you a whisper and sometimes it's like a full-blown brick wall falling on you with the message and I was like this is a message like this is like this is what I should do with my life so even though I was still in law school I went back and I auditioned for drama like no one would take me at the drama schools who'd you audition for NIDA yeah maybe that first year only just

NIDA because I thought well out of the top but yeah just go to the best one and because my law school was across the road I thought oh maybe I'll do both I am such an overachiever then yeah they didn't accept me so I just did I did law and arts so I did theatre and film subjects at my university at UNSW and so did you give up trying to get into an acting school because no I auditioned like four times four years in a like a row can you only audition once a year yes there's only um for the big drama schools once a year audition and it was no for four years yeah yeah and I remember circling back to eating whole pizzas why I have vivid memories each time after being rejected and told no I went to the pizza hut all you can eat in the city and short

street just smash the all you can eat buffet I remember vividly why I did that four years in a row that was my go-to and I guess because I lived out west I was like well if I'm in the city anyway I'm gonna go to the pizza hut all you can eat and treat myself just eat eat my sorrows yeah I think it's so interesting though because like for so many people when you did bridesmaids that was like I mean I know you say you weren't a household name and maybe not that easily recognizable but I think you were you were I think you really were and that was the movie that kind of put you on the map for a lot of people in the outset even for me I would have thought that there was like a real overnight success in you becoming this well-known actor but it wasn't an overnight

success there's so many years that go into this yeah I think what a lot of people don't realize is the perception is sometimes that it's some overnight success but the reality is like every day of my adult life I've worked hard to achieve this goal and like sacrificed a lot which I think a lot of people don't realize and I guess I started whilst I was also going to university going to the Australian Theatre for Young People and so started in theatre realized quite quickly like I wasn't the mold of successful actresses and I had to kind of create my own and so the way I did that was by writing my own plays and then putting them on and also casting myself obviously but but using my my business brain and stuff to produce them and I'm with some other

really talented young people and I put on these plays and I was lucky like the very first play I wrote was just called the Westie Monologues which is basically like monologues of girls in Sydney's western suburbs and then they all kind of interconnect by the end it was a huge hit and it was on at the Bondi Pavilion then it was on at Belvoir and and then at Parramatta Riverside Theatre that well that one year and Channel 7 invested in it and gave me a lot like lots of money at the time I think it was like ninety thousand dollars to put it on professionally and it showed me wow if I put my own initiative and and just be myself be my unique version of myself and one of my characters was a bit like Tula my character on Fat Pizza that I became

kind of known for in Australia and yeah one of the characters was kind of morphed into Tula a bit and like yeah and so it was kind of like me taking my own initiative but the theatre days like if anyone who does theatre in Sydney knows like you're not in it for the money you're in it for the love and the love of performing and and you're doing the stagecraft and everything and like sometimes I was performing in Sydney theatres and some nights there was less audience in the theatre than was in the cast and that's when you cancel have to cancel the performance they're the rules if there's less audience than cast members you cancel and that's happened to me several times but I look back so fondly on those days because I wasn't professional then

And I was just, yeah, building up my career and my resume. And then how I got into television was Fat Pizza director Paul Fennec saw me in the play and I'd written and gave me a job and it was awesome. And then from that show, I got a lot of improv experience and on-camera experience. And then I just segued into doing things, but it always led from me taking my own initiative and writing and performing. Yeah. So I did all the hard yards.

like my first TV job was SBS and like working my way up to more commercial television and then eventually I knew oh I want to go to Hollywood if I can make it in one Hollywood movie that'd be pretty sweet and then it all went from there. So you really had to create a space for yourself that's what you had to do? Yeah because I wasn't in any mold I was like you know I was kind of feral looking I think I had a snaggle tooth like no joke I've been shaved down now but yeah I was real feral i would have loved to have been famous at like 21 like i would have loved that and to be recognized but i just wasn't it just took a long time it wasn't until i was about 32 that i became like an international internationally known actress pretty much which is a bit late i guess

gives us hope it's not too late for me no it's never too late because i feel like if i never had that malaria induced hallucination i probably would have been a lawyer and been great at it and then maybe at about 40 would have had some kind of midlife crisis and said I'm gonna go into stand-up comedy like like Roseanne Barr or something like that would have been my route I think I still would have probably found my way into it I just yeah the hallucination sped it up for me I think so you're already acting in Australia and you are forging you're forging career here and creating your own roles yeah because no one would cast me Laura like I went in to the agency and I was like oh you know I want to get an agent because all my friends did

at the time and they're like well we could never see you on home and away and I'm like well because they're the only roles didn't want to be on home and away like yeah I mean I love home and away like god amazing people have come out of that show but like that wasn't me I wasn't a beach babe like I just wasn't that you didn't want to go do your bay watch scene no I didn't because that would have been no one would have wanted to watch that but also like with hitting these roadblocks in Australia you're coming up to nose all the time what then makes you go all right well fuck this small pond i'm gonna go to hollywood like what gives you the confidence to say i'm gonna go and try it over there which is a hell of a lot more competitive yeah i just i had done 13 tv

shows in australia by that point and i'd gotten a big contract on channel seven for like a three year job a great show and i was like is this gonna be my life or am i gonna i'd always wanted to be in hollywood movies and i was like or is now my chance and so i rejected the big time channel seven contract and left and sold every single thing I had my apartment in Melbourne my car my computer like I had to sell everything because you need a lot of money to to go over and and you know you're not going to be able to work much and you don't earn much when you first in Hollywood so I like sold every single thing I had even my toast like I autographed it oh something got 20 bucks everything went everything went my mom came to help me we sold everything on eBay and in one

weekend everybody just came to my apartment and because i was kind of a bit known from australian tv shows so i guess my stuff was worth something and then i sold every single thing i was like yeah i'm not coming back well known enough but not well known enough or not big enough here to obviously have an excessive amount of cash spare cash to go to hollywood no no you need you it's like you're a sieve what's that thing a sieve where you deceive money you know that thing that you put flour in yeah okay yeah you like that it just seems money just falls through because you just need money for everything and yeah and you can't you're not really earning money so the money just like drains from your account and you don't know when you're going to get your first role over

there as well yeah i was i was very lucky bridesmaids came like three months when you took on bridesmaids did you know at the time how hugely successful it was going to be i had hoped the problem is the cast was so so amazing and i had four scenes in the movie and i was like is four scenes enough and i remember jonah hill had one scene i believe in 40 year old virgin and like and then skyrocketed from that and i was like i knew i had a feeling i was i was gonna make make a little splash but like i was like is it enough because it's i wasn't i i auditioned for the melissa mccarthy role and didn't didn't get that was second place in that so they added me into the film but i didn't really have a big role because it just added in and so i was like is that

enough but i i thought yes it will be and then i had to wait essentially a year until that movie came out longest year yeah it takes about a year from when you film it to come out and i had no money i was living on 60 a week for my just for my food and entertainment which i would see one movie a week at the cinemas and then i would use the rest on food because that's all i had budgeted for because it was a pretty yeah i earned um thirty five hundred dollars on bridesmaids and that was what i had to pay to the union so to join the union in america so i earned nothing that's what you earned from that movie i think there'll be so many people that are shook to the core to hear that you earned three thousand five hundred dollars for that movie yeah yeah i am

shocked yeah it's crazy isn't it but that was the platform that was the that was the kickstart and then next up was pitch perfect and well pitch perfect was one of the movies i booked off the back of bridesmaids and i booked six movies off the back of that off that one of those little scenes two weeks and then your iconic role is fat amy yeah do you know i bought it on dvd it was like my favorite movie and i used to watch it on dvd at home all the time taste i do have good I mean they're the most successful musical comedy films of all time they beat School of Rock and I forget what the other reigning champion was before we came along who cares because they're not up there anymore pitch perfect get off but what was it like what was that process like filming pitch

perfect what was it like being in such a huge film where not only was it so hugely watched but like your you were well and truly recognized by that point in time it was awesome it was um I think I telling you this yesterday when we were playing tennis but I had auditioned as an American for Pitch Perfect and then I was really tired in dance rehearsals when we practiced the routines and then the director heard me talking with my real Australian accent and then he's like you have to do that in the movie and I'm like no no no I've I'm an actress I have prepared this American character called Fat Amy and I'd already sung recorded all my vocals in American accent and everything. And he's like, no, I have a feeling like you're going to be Australian in it. And I

go, no, cause I, I just, I don't know. I just wanted to be an actress and play someone a bit different to who I was. And then he's like, nah, you're going to be more distinctive. And he was totally right. And then I kind of really stood out. Fat Amy was only the seventh or eighth biggest character in the script. And then she kind of, you know, I kind of embellished the role quite a bit and then got more screen time. It wouldn't have been the same if Fat Amy was American. I don't feel like as a viewer it would have had the same effect and I think what you just said and the director said,

you wouldn't have stood out as much because especially at that time, Australians weren't really allowed to act with their native accent. I was right on the cusp of, well, they call it now the Game of Thrones effect where American audiences are much more used to hearing foreign accents but that certainly wasn't the case when I moved over there. and really yeah in bridesmaids i've done like a british accent to fit in with my buddy matt lucas but like yeah it was kind of very fortuitous because getting to kind of almost be myself like it's obviously a character but you know and you push things for comic effect but it was like

it was just the best fun and those girls like we have a group text that we there's almost on a daily basis there's things going on in the group text about how much we love each other the bellas How much, yeah. How much? I can show you. I can show you some of this. Let me get it up. Yeah, it's called Bella's.

Oh, my goodness. This is from yesterday because Brittany was sending, like, our little cute videos of us. We send, like, each other little videos of us on set and stuff. And that's years down the track. Yeah, and this is just yesterday. We're talking about we're going to do something for Galentine's Day next year. We're already organising it.

Just spread love to each other. We all, like, are such good friends and we're so different. Like, the ten of us girls in the Bellas are so different. But there's something about when we come together and we just have the best time. And we do group reunions all the time. Like, you know, we're so busy but a couple times a year. Friendship goals.

Yeah. Yeah, and we hit up, like, almost every day. There's some Bellas text about something. Isn't it pretty amazing, though, that, like, I think that authenticity is what shows on screen as well. Like, as much as, obviously, like, everyone can act, you can play having fun yeah on an offset like i mean pitch perfect one i mean i was the more studious because i remember i was writing a pilot at the same time which then became my show in on

american tv called super fun night so i was the more studious one and then esther dean who's the african-american bella she is a huge songwriter so has written massive hits for nikki minaj rihanna beyonce like she's just katie but she wrote katie perry fireworks half of the songs we sing in pitch perfect to her songs so we were the more studious ones but god the other ones partied so hard are they gonna hate that you're out in there no because they just like to have a good time and whatever and we were all quite young then i mean by the third one i wasn't i definitely wasn't going out that many nights we're working working hard but like god when we were young and then i remember adam divine who plays bumper like god he'd get into it every night i was like you guys

But we definitely just had so much fun, whether it was we went tailgating at the football or something or going to dance clubs and just dancing it up and we just had a ball, like, on those movies. Do you have a moment when you're doing a film like this where you're like, holy shit, I've made it? Like, this is – I have fucking made it. Yeah, what was your made it moment? Well, we didn't know Pitch Perfect was going to be, like,

as big as it ended up being, but I just knew this is the type of movie I want to watch. so I knew that for sure and so I knew like I'd hoped it would be good but you never know if it's going to be going to be like that massive but I'm so glad it was like they're the best movie and we obviously we want to make more but that's that decision is not in our hands unfortunately so was there an actual moment in your career where you realized was it you were being followed by paparazzi were people recognizing you so it was the day Pitch Perfect 1 came out and I was living with matt lucas in la and at his awesome house he just gave you a place to stay well yeah we

played roommates and bridesmaids and then we became roommates in real life like it was pretty funny uh it would freak people out who'd seen the movie and they're like oh my god you guys are actually roommates and we're like yes yeah so basically i went from being able to go to the shops and stuff being pretty much unrecognizable like being able to shit in people's front lawns get away with it to then pitch perfect comes out instant like paparazzi out the front of the house like couldn't go anywhere could no longer like go in your sweats to the supermarket or couldn't really go to shopping malls at that point it was crazy and then I just went in the bathtub and I was like my life has changed forever now I keep getting goosebumps because I never I didn't

want to be famous like I wanted to be recognized I guess but I didn't really that was never the goal to become famous I guess you just wanted to be respected and like recognized and stuff for what you do and then when it happens you're almost like oh can I take it back like oh could I go back to how life was before because it's full-on when it does happen to you and that's why I feel for any of the younger kids who have it happen to them when they're like 16 17 like the young pop stars or the young actors I just it's very because I was like 31 32 and it was full-on and I was in the bathtub kind of crying only for about 30 minutes because I was like my life has changed now and I can't I can't go places and certain things and but it was also I mean it was awesome

to be in such a huge hit as well so the positives far outweigh the negatives I think but that was you literally feel it you sense it you go oh my god my life is not and you can't really take it back like once once you're out there and you're a name and you recognize well you can't rewind that even that you see in hollywood there are people that haven't filmed or made anything for years and they're still always followed they're still gonna be papped they're still in like um alicia silverstone who i just worked with on senior year who's just the most gorgeous girl and i remember her from clueless obviously so iconic so recognizable and yeah and she hasn't actually worked but god in the moment you see her you're like oh my god alicia like hi like she must get

it and people quoting the movie to her and stuff she must get that every day for the rest of her yeah it's when you're part of these movies that are so they're so like generational you know Pitch Perfect is something that of that generation who's watched it it's so formative to their like for us and we love our fans like we love our fans so much playing the role Fat Amy and like having like a very like I don't know if how you describe it not stereotyped role but you you played Fat Amy like it was very much like that is your that is a role on the show what is it like being given that title but also having such a well-known character then being able to break out of that character to play different roles in other movies is that challenging I weirdly had a character on

Australian TV called Fat Mandy when I did a sketch show called The Wedge so it wasn't actually it wasn't like I remember when Kay Cannon reached out to me about the film she's the writer of the films and she was like oh I don't mean to offend you but there's this character first of all it wasn't even offensive at all because when I did look at the script even though Fat Amy wasn't the biggest character to me she was the funniest and I was like oh yeah you know that's like awesome to have on paper the what I thought was the funniest role so being bigger I was kind of a normal size maybe a bit on the athletic side when I was a teenager and then I had something called PCOS and I gained one of the symptoms of that is you can gain weight quite rapidly when you're about

2021 so like obviously I knew I was a bigger girl and I was like you just got to embrace it you got to in comedy and that's why I went more into comedy acting because I knew logically and also like I'd done this subject in a university called comedy and power and it was really interesting about how much power comedians can have and and that people often like to laugh at people that they don't want to have sex with so normally you'll find a lot of comedians are like this is like some psychological thing is some comedians often have something that's physical about them that's abnormal a bit whether they're super tall or they've got a giant nose or or they're bigger ladies those people tend to go better in comedy so I turned what was seen by a lot of agents and

people in the business at the time of being a bigger girl as a disadvantage into my advantage and i was like yeah okay i'm gonna go specialize in comedy nicole kidman gave me a scholarship i went to new york to study in comedy school i was like i'm gonna even though i did want to become the next dame judy dench i was like but i'm a bigger girl i'll go into comedy you wanted to have a serious yeah yeah yeah i didn't think i was funny at all i like i did not which is funny like i did not think that and then but i knew i was smart and a lot of behind a lot of comedians is you know a really good brain and so I was like okay well I feel like I can do it but it was purely because of my size I go I've got a much better chance being in comedy and making fun of myself

or you know laughing at myself and making others laugh and so being fat Amy I don't know it was such a privilege because I never saw it as a negative I was like the confident chick was it hard sometimes like some of my co-stars in pitch like Anna and Brittany like they're so tiny and like I literally I feel like I weighed three times more than them and at times sometimes you'd be like whatever everyone's just born differently in different bodies and that was my body and that's theirs and and we just celebrate all of each other and Bella's means like beautiful in Italian we're all beautiful and whatever and I just loved being fat Amy I love like that was me and so I just I don't know I love playing that character and and the whole comedy thing I think it is interesting

psychologically about how people go into get into comedy and stuff and you often use yeah something that people can see as a physical disadvantage to your advantage I think it's just a really important message just to not brush over it but what you just said for everyone listening is that there is so much power in just accepting and celebrating who you are because if you tried to go to Hollywood and be something you're not if you tried to go and say everyone else is doing and looking like this you wouldn't have made it nothing would have happened for you because you were yeah you were chosen imagine if I tried to somehow look like Cate Blanchett on a cog I know I'm just using it because they're such you know big names well

I wouldn't have succeeded I had to be myself like I had to be me and one of the things that I had going for me at acting school back in the day is that I wasn't the most talented like I really wasn't at the Australian Theatre for Young People there were so many more people that were way more gifted than me but I was unique and I was an individual and I luckily had that fostered at ATYP and if I hadn't have done that like because therefore when I rocked up in America I get signed like my second day in America because I was different and I was myself and I was like very true to myself and there really wasn't big actresses like at that time there was like Melissa McCarthy and I don't even know if there was anybody else at that point not really there

there really wasn't yeah so I rode what other people thought is a disadvantage into my total advantage and made millions millions of dollars doing it and also had an amazing time and loved being I love I was so body confident and body positive at being a size 16 to 18 which I have been for most of my life and then also now I'm what like an 8 or 10 or something in American sizes it was awesome so was there was there a time in Hollywood obviously that was what you became famous for you were accepted for who you were was there ever a time that people in power or people in the industry fat shamed you even though this is what you were there you know you were who you were you were getting these amazing roles you're an amazing actress did you ever feel

like you were being stereotyped or it's so weird because a lot of actresses have some kind of fat shaming story particularly around photo shoots I only had one story where like I rocked up this was before I have my world's most amazing stylist Elizabeth Stewart who does do Cate Blanchett and Julia Roberts and Viola Davis and all these amazing Sandra Bullock everyone before I'd met her I didn't really have a stylist and I remember rocking up to a photo shoot and they didn't have any clothes to fit me and so they literally put this scarf around your neck and I'm like you're like no and you can still find yeah you can find they took the photo yeah yeah well it was just me with the scarf like this silk kind of scarf draped around me and I'm like oh

but weirdly I don't know whether people just didn't mess with me because they knew I was very secure in myself it's the ones that are not so secure that can get really messed up by things in particular like photo shoots but then I teamed up with my amazing stylist and I was the only plus size girl that she had on her her books but I never had that situation she never didn't have clothes that wouldn't fit me like she'd always have options and and gorgeous glamorous options with from great designers so she hooked me up with Givenchy for example and they they made me custom dresses and things like so it was really I don't know it was never really an issue but I know a lot of women have struggled I only really had that one experience which is rare because a lot of girls

who are normal size like a normal size get told they're they're fat or whatever and yeah and shamed I'm gonna look for the scarf photo after this yeah but I guess like the antithesis of that when you decided you've made it you know you've got your place in Hollywood and you're like okay I'm gonna go for my year of health I'm gonna change everything I'm going to get healthy and happy and and all the rest of it was that hard for you in terms of people saying well you know that's not your role in hollywood we don't really want you to change because this is who you are i definitely had people not being supportive of that life change when i told announced this is going to be my year of health i guess because like being bigger i didn't have any serious disease or

whatever i was getting checked for diabetes and things like that but i didn't have anything but i knew secretly like my emotional eating was pretty unhealthy and there's all you can eat pizza buffet oh yeah I knew like that is not rebel like a healthy way to be dealing with with emotions whether they're happy or sad emotions or stress work emotions like I knew deep down I can't keep doing that like I can't I've got to have a healthier option for my life but it was hard because I'm traveling all around the world having this amazing life making like a ton of money and having a great career like I'm so proud of everything that I've achieved and you know just wanting to be in one hollywood movie now i think i've done like 20 and it's like now

now it's awesome but then i just knew okay no i'm turning 40 i i know that i can be healthier even though i loved myself being bigger and it never stopped me from doing anything really and then i was like okay i'm gonna make the big change and lose excess weight that my body doesn't need to be carrying around and yeah it was i had quite a lot of yeah pushback from that because people like but why why would you want to change like you're awesome how you are and and I was like yeah I know that but I also know I'm engaging in some things that aren't healthy and I gotta you know work on that. When you say you received pushback who specifically was that from was it from like your audience your fans was it from the people who represent you people who were casting

you? It was people that represented me who are amazing at what they do like a really amazing but they weren't living my life but also from some people on social media would be like well are you gonna be funny now and I'm like well being if physicality is one tool in your toolkit as a comedian you can use but there's many many other tools that I that I have and that you guys will see in in upcoming movies and so it's just about diversifying that and but it was yeah it's interesting but then on the whole pretty much everyone's been so supportive and and then I made my journey very public to make it accountable but everyone's been so nice about it and everyone gives you so many compliments and whatever they're like everyone's like wow you look great and then

I was like oh did I not look so great before thanks guys how has this year of health changed the roles that you're now getting or changed you not just physically and how you feel and everything else but changed your ability in your work like how has that changed well really it's now opened up dramatic roles which I wasn't really getting considered for before which is awesome because now I can use that acting muscle that I haven't I haven't used as much of and so I filmed this movie called the almond and the seahorse opposite this amazing French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg and that's really cool to now be seen in that light but people in Hollywood they kind of have to see it first and then they change their minds you can't convince people otherwise they're almost

got to see your change first and then they go oh yes okay I mean I feel like that's going to be huge for the audience because I'm just trying to think now I know you have done things in the past but everything that I can think of of you is comedy I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable but I was supposed to come to that premiere with you so I haven't seen the movie oh yeah yeah yeah I was supposed to come see your drama film but I can't wait to see it because I can't wait to And now that I know you personally, obviously I know you have that side to you, but you are funny. I'm quite serious in real life though.

Everyone asks me, what's Rebel really like? And I'm like, actually nothing like who you represent on film. Yeah, which I take as a compliment to my acting that they think I am exactly like Fat Amy or exactly like they do think that. And then I go, well, that's just a compliment that I've made myself seem very believable because I think I am much more serious and responsible in real life than on screen. but I think it's so interesting as well that like maybe in order and I don't want to say that it had

to be the way but like breaking that stereotype breaking that mold of being like you know the person who always is going to be the funny person in the comedy skit to be able to now have these dramatic roles and to be able to shift and kind of re-transform yourself in your career it all came down to this year of health or that's played a huge part in it and in people's perceptions do you think that there is still in Hollywood or in acting that there is still like very much a type or a cast and how they go okay well if you are the biggest size girl you're going to be in comedy you're not going to be in a drama or you're not going to be in sort of something that's a more serious role yeah I mean they definitely were when I came to Hollywood but I think the good

thing about diversity and inclusion is that not only with ethnicities is it is it changing like I mean it's amazing if you go if you're out there and you're like a diverse actor like not Caucasian it's an amazing time for you right now like there's so many roles going and that was not the case like it just wasn't the case 10 years ago but I also think in the inclusion with it whether it be like on the sexuality spectrum or with body types it's becoming part of being inclusive and stuff so it definitely wasn't it really wasn't when I first came to Hollywood there was hardly any plus size actresses and I still think there was some statistic this was like a few years ago but it was something like leading ladies it's less than one percent or something of plus size

actresses in when you look at all Hollywood films there is some movement in including different body types in the inclusivity movement I think as well it's why there's so much there's so much media attention when somebody and we've seen it with Adele we saw it with you when somebody who is plus size has a dramatic weight loss the media is so like tell me everything how did you do it and I think it's because there is this under representation so like when one person steps out of that role they're like whoa well what are you doing that's you're not you're not supposed to be doing that you're not supposed to be that person yeah yeah because they see you as one way and they like you as one way and they want you to be that people don't like change yeah and I think

in your family say you know say there's two sisters and they're both overweight and one loses weight and the other one doesn't and there could be some resentment from the other sister going well why did you change and that makes them not feel good about themselves for whatever reason and it's so relatable I think that yeah there's some people out there that don't like the change but I'm kind of like just did it for myself and knew I could be a healthier version of myself and that was my only goal then I was so proud of myself that I could actually do it well you look incredible you've done an amazing job so well done I think a big thing is the small changes you can make because I know other people probably ask you they're right doing this like how did you

do it though what did you do and I just think of even the times that we catch up you catch up for a walk or you catch up for tennis or you don't have to be going to a drink or you don't have to be going to an all-you-can-eat buffet like there are so many different ways you can catch up with people and incorporate these things into your life without actually feeling like I've got to pull myself out of bed at 5am to go and slog it out the gym you don't you don't actually have to like walking is like one of the best things just getting out there and going for a walk which pretty much most people can do and it just like is it's the best thing I went to the fanciest health retreat in Europe but to learn that just walking just walking for an hour a day

is really good you don't really need to slog it out I mean I did slog it out to lose weight more quickly but like yeah you don't actually have to do that and that's not part of my regular routine now so moving back to Australian territory we did mention before you do do a lot of charity work and you have done a lot of work in Africa but you did just come back to Australia and drop very very large amount of money you just donated one million dollars to the Australian theatre for young people which is where you trained I know because they were so supportive of me as a young actor and anyone who's like through the pandemic knows like live theatre and you know theatre the industry has suffered greatly and it's such a shame because it's like for me it's like the best i love seeing

shows and musicals it's one of my favorite things to do and the australian theater for young people had a space that the government allocated them down at the wharf in sydney but they didn't have the money to build the the new theater and all the fit out and so i was like well okay i'll donate because i just feel very strongly in giving back and i was given a lot from them and so i was like okay I'm gonna give back. You gave back tenfold. Oh yeah but even the scholarship that Nicole Kidman had given me through A2AP like I repaid that as soon as I could as soon as I it was only at the time it was only twelve thousand dollars but that was a lot of money at the time and I repaid that as well because like I was like I just believe in doing that and and then it gives this

awesome new theatre a home for like thousands of kids are going to perform there and get their start there and that makes me feel like really really good and then the first show that's going to open the theatre in February is called The Deb and it's a musical that I've been producing with a very talented team and it's about a debutante ball in a small country town it'll be the first production in the new Rebel Theatre down at the Wharf. When does it come out? Oh it might start previewing mid-February but late February. We'll go see it. Do you know you just spoke about kids and you're talking about the theater but something else that you've done because you're such an overachiever is that you have published a book called Bella the Brave yeah and it's I can

see it can you tell us a little bit about on my mantle guys I mean it's right there like next to the awards next to the trophies but why Bella the Brave what was the initiative behind it why did you want to write a book that was for young girls I think I literally am a late bloomer in a lot of things. And so I sometimes wish I'd had certain messages earlier. And the first book about Bella the Brave is about overcoming shyness, which was my first kind of battle in life. And I'm glad I did overcome it and started to express my personality to people because I wasn't naturally like that as a child. And so I think just with Bella, I thought, well, in my movies, I'm getting across a lot of girl power messages and things about loving yourself

and some really nice messages in my films, but they're more for older teens and above. And so I thought, oh, for the younger kids, like it could be really cool to do these picture books and have these awesome, nice, positive messages in and to tell little stories. Bella's a kind of nod to Bella's in Pitch Perfect. Oh, so I was about to ask.

Yeah, because I was like, I didn't want to call her Rebel, like the community lead character. You're like, I write my own movies, I put myself in. I write my own books but it's obviously me is the character Bella but I didn't want to call her my own name you just mentioned shyness which is like something that you've overcome but I question and this is from producer Keisha she threw this one in and I think it's a great one okay what is something about yourself now that you dislike a characteristic that you're like you know what if I could work on one thing this would be the thing I'm so independent like I'm so so independent

that I think with relationships it's hard to be in one it's hard to be in one yeah thanks that's one thing that I'm like why am I like so abnormal in that area or whatever and then that I'm trying to see if I can get past that because I'm just so I'm so used to being single and like being by myself that like I get used to that and I've maybe got set in ways that I should Everyone was like, do you think that I'll ever just like actually like having someone in my space? I was like, maybe one day. Or potentially not.

There's plenty of people who are in healthy relationships who actually hate living with their partner. Some people have separate bedrooms and stuff. And like, and I just, I just don't know whether I've, maybe I haven't met the right person yet or I'm just like, I don't know. You just need a bigger house, different levels. I don't know. Meet in the middle.

Pre-bitch. I mean, that's a really nice little segue. way we are you know we are predominantly a relationship podcast we love to talk about love and dating and independence and breakup and i do love dating podcasts yeah well maybe you should listen to our one one day okay no i have listened to like one or two i have i have no but let's talk about and we're not going to get into the specifics but love and dating and breakups for you how is that i mean how is that evolved for you from being your dorky teen into dating in public eye and everyone looking at every single thing you do and I just want to quickly throw in

there she's like are they well yeah like quickly to throw in there like your ex Jacob RIP sorry that that ended but he was so hot well done have you seen her amazing yes oh yeah he's like very I don't know if anyone wants someone to say that about their ex oh no we talk about how he's just a hottie he's pure physical perfection I will attest to that in every way but what's it like having a relationship in the public eye and having to date and having everyone's everyone's interest well okay first of all yeah I'm I am a late bloomer I guess because in my 20s I never dated anybody not anybody which is sad in a way but I needed to be very focused and disciplined almost like an Olympic athlete level of focus to make it in the entertainment industry like it was

that hard now I can take my foot off the gas a little bit but it's I don't know it's amazing like some things come out about people you're dating and then some with some other people would never comes out it just depends and sometimes the press or right thing you know that are totally untrue and sometimes they're on the money with it so it just it's a bit we it's like an extra complication being in the public eye I guess I've had like a guy not want to date me because he came to a movie premiere and like had a panic attack with the attention and not ideal yeah didn't want to date me because I was in the public eye and that was hard to deal with and then I've had other guys who are very much liking the attention and then it can swing the other opposite

way where they like it a bit too much and you're like oh that's that can be a red flag as well so well how do you differentiate because I imagine this is something anyone deals with in the public Like how do you know that someone, that it's genuine and they're not using you to leverage themselves or get publicity for themselves? It's hard. Well, I think I'm a pretty good judge of character and I, you know, and I haven't had any horror stories or anything but not in the romantic sense

but I have had some people in Hollywood that have still swindled me and I'm such a smart, you know, person but like I've still had a couple of like friendships I guess where you've been swindled. luckily i haven't really had it in the romantic area at the end of the day like your job and whatever is part of you so you want them to like it but then i don't know do you think you have to date somebody in the public eye that does what you do or do you have a preference could you just date joe boy from down the street well i've never dated like an actor because i just i don't think two actors or whatever would be good together you never know what was real those hollywood

relationship would uh suggest otherwise yeah yeah and i've dated people from the very very wealthy to like really has no money and is in a share house with two other people i've dated the spectrum it's quite interesting to date different people and just find out you know what's what's the best but i feel like the person that you're dating they've got to be very secure in themselves and I'm not the most famous you know but like I have a successful movie career and stuff so there's sometimes you know you get attention or things from that and the other person's got to be very secure what's your advice for somebody now that might be going through a breakup because I know you obviously went through a breakup with Jacob you've been to them before but what's your

advice for someone we have people writing every single day that are just really struggling with moving on or accepting a life change what's the best piece of advice it is and I also I'm very jealous of your friendship I don't know if you know this Laura but Rebel is really good friends with Matthew Hussey which is somebody that we here at Life Uncut love and we go to for a lot of advice to get him on the podcast I've had to call him a couple times to get relationship and love advice because he's so good like he's just so good and he came to my birthday party this year on rebel island and he was like and of course anytime i can talk to him about stuff i'm like matthew what do you reckon about this i'm in this situation like what should i do he's just a legend

like and he has a podcast as well that you can learn stuff from but the question was about breakups yeah like just what's your best advice for somebody that's going through one and they just feel a bit of despair and like the world is over they'll never date again they can't get themselves out of bed you know that i am weirdly normally the person that dumps somebody i hate that word you're the dumper I'm yeah I'm not usually the person that gets dumped why do you think that is why are you the dumper it's because she's got she can't be in a relationship with people I would love I would love to be dumped yeah I would because then at least it's not me having to do it like I don't know but I'm normally the one that I'm like uh at a certain point you're

like this is good but I you know I feel like maybe this person's not the one and then when you feel that then maybe you have to move on and it's awful especially when you like care about the person and respect them and and you just think but I don't think I can't see this being long term or I can't see myself getting engaged to them so I've got to end it and it's all like it's awful it's it's never good but then also once I have been dumped one time there was only one time and kind of refused to believe it we've all been there and then I didn't give up for about two more years and then what do you mean like you kept chasing him yeah and then and and wait can we deep dive into this a little bit how did this transpire like how do you persist for two years was it

was he very adamant or was he giving a little actually we've spoken about this and it's more like it's when you like in the opposite of what you just said when they'll come around yeah when you have those feelings of like but to me you're right so how can't I be right to you that you know that feeling of like yeah you're everything to me but so I don't know I was like well why am I feeling all these feelings if it's not real or yeah and it was it was really hard so okay so basically though long story short I have empathy for people who have to dump people and maybe you're in a relationship and now you're in the new year and you're like I don't know about this relation I don't know whether it's serving me the best or I'm being my best self in this and I've got to get

out of it you know and you might have to dump the person or if you're being dumped and I know that feeling as well and it's like it is very sad you're like oh my god I think Hussie's advice is normally not sometimes not to take it personally I think I did take it very personally when I was dumped when it really wasn't about me it was about what the other person was going through and you can take it very personally because obviously it's you being dumped but you just sometimes it's not about you and the person's doing your favor by they're letting you know for whatever because if that person isn't investing in the relationship matthew house he talks about like test and invest he'll invest and then test to see whether the other person is investing back and if they're not

then you're like you shouldn't be in that relationship if it's not it's so hugely undervalued just how hard it is and how hard it can be to be the one doing the breakup like the one we have so much sympathy and empathy for the person who's being broken up with like we know that they need to be held up and supported but when you're the person who has to do that to another human it's so hard because I always you know I've got a bit of people pleasing in me and so like you don't want to you don't want to hurt somebody so just going back to what you said just before in regards to like you know being able to relatively early not even relatively early but being able to feel out that it's not the right relationship for you what is it that you're

looking for like what are they what are your deal breakers and deal makers because we've got a big audience here rebel yeah you might be out there for me still technically single so you just I don't know that connection when I don't know whether anyone's seen like Moulin Rouge the musical or and I was sitting there and they're singing about love and I'm like oh I want to feel that connection where artists and poets talk about that's like that and I just don't know whether I found that right person yet. I don't know how to describe that. It's just that deepness in the connection. I think the biggest thing that I'm just getting from you now is you're really big on just trusting the universe and trusting your gut feeling and getting on with it. And I think

something that people really struggle with, and I know I did once upon a time and then I fell into this 10 years of singledom where I became fiercely independent, but I think people are really worried about being on their own and they can't differentiate solitude and loneliness. And they're two very different things being alone doesn't necessarily mean being lonely yeah because I love being by myself like I do I do genuinely love having my own spaces where I get to think I get to do my writing but I also feel for anybody that does feel very lonely because I also I do know that feeling and when I wasn't dating anybody for so many years and just working seven days a week like I know that feeling when you just come home after a day of work and you're like oh my like I

don't have anybody to share it with and I'm not getting smooches from anybody or whatever like I know what that's like and I know how sad and that feeling can be and and even though I'm somebody who so loves myself and is so happy and content being alone but I also know the loneliness feeling that people can feel and I I don't know I really empathize with them and and I guess the trick is just be the best version of yourself and go out there do activities like interact with people that you might you know also enjoy that activity like i know i'm talking very generally but like be the best version of yourself and just create the best life and then the i think the right person will come along let's move into some hollywood goss we're just gonna ask you some

questions okay quick answers who's your bestie in hollywood well i'd say the bellas the girls from pitch perfect because we talk all the time who's your hall pass brad pitt oh same yeah he's a real staple isn't it at any age just it used to be channing tatum britney it used to be channing tatum it's now brad pitt why don't change okay well at the 2020 oscars brad had just won his oscar i had to go backstage i had to change into being a cat for my little bit so I had a dressing room backstage which is so rare like there's only like me James Corden like Billie Eilish that had dressing rooms back there and then Brad was so overwhelmed he just won the Oscar you know it was awesome but he was overwhelmed he needed refuge and there I was

I was like I was like hi Brad oh yeah I'm just getting changed into a cat he's like can I walk with you and I was like yeah don't you have to do press or you have to go to the press room because he's holding his oscar he's literally just come off stage he goes yeah but i just like to you know walk with you and and then he walked me to my dressing room we go down this very serious corridors we're just chit-chatting meanwhile timothy chalamet comes up and he's like rebel thanks for letting me have a shower at your house and then i was like oh because i remember one time i was out and he came and had a shower at my house when i wasn't there my sister let him in and then brad pitt looks at me he's like yeah and i'm like oh yeah timothy

shall we just have showers at my house like i'm a gangster like my house too if you want and then and then brad walked me to the dressing room and then i opened my all my style teams in there to turn me into a cat and they're just like what the hell like with brad you're just with brad pitt just escorted you back i'm like yeah he is the nicest nicest guy and then later we spoke at the after party and that uh comedian Chelsea Handler was like because Brad came up and just kind of touched me on the back and she's like how long have you been fucking Brad Pitt and I'm like uh in my wildest dreams I didn't want to spread that rumor yeah I was like spread that it wasn't true obviously but he's just I don't know I just love him I love he looks fantastic up I've looked at

him very up close he looks great he's beautiful but I love hearing that he's as nice as he is good looking yeah yeah yeah he is he is who would you want to play you in a movie oh play me yeah because it depends what age tony collette is one of my favorite australian actresses what was it like making out with liam hemsworth oh okay how many retakes did you do uh that was the quickest scene we shot in the movie i think we only did three takes when I had to ferociously make out with him in a hallway he is the nicest guy like so nice and so I mean obviously they're all those brothers are very genetically gifted and and are amazing but it was like the quickest scene like I didn't really yeah it literally was the five minutes

or something and it was because I knew Miley and stuff at the time you know no no no it's just acting like whatever but it was just so easy we just did it like give him a high five yeah and then job was done it's never romantic guys it's never romantic when you're at work like it's not who would be the best person you made out we're not the best person who's your favorite makeout because i also know on the set that i went to see you on yes i did kiss justin hartley or just like the best kisser like who who like out of a ranking of one to ten would you be like that guy's a very good kisser that one not so much tell me justin was good oh justin was fantastic That kiss has been cut out of the movie Senior Year,

my big cheerleading comedy that you guys – I think you'll see it in about March on Netflix. But we actually cut the kiss because of audience testing. But at least you've got that memory. They didn't like the kiss. They liked me with the other guy more. So he's got like, who else have I – oh, God, I've kissed more people on screen than what I have in real life.

That's a weird statistic. Is that actually? Yeah. Wow. I haven't had many, you know. That's insane. real life front davies i've had much more on screen and i remember i won best kiss with adam divine from pitch perfect we won the mtv movie award for best kiss which i was like pretty

pumped about like that was awesome so we'll go with adam divine for the win do you think maybe maybe that was definitely my longest kiss with him i think on screen and just to wrap it who would you hope to one day work with who would be someone you just dream of one day filming something oh that's an awesome question now it's about like the amazing directors that i could i don't know i mean on the female side like emerald finnell or chloe xiao who these female directors that are like coming up the ranks like there's even like a lot of australian directors who are directed like handmaid's tale like dana reed or or kate shortland who did like widow uh these australian ladies who are like kicking ass like any of those what about actor

but actor wise brad pitt brad pitt 100 god i've already worked like in comedy i've worked with pretty much everybody but in drama yeah timothy chalamet is so hot right now he's in so many awesome things and just on fire so i would say he i mean dame judy dench legend there's so many oh there's so many good people i don't know i'm stumped i'm stumped it's also hard when you've also already acted with so many of them you're like i've already done my hit list my hit list is finished rebel thank you so much for taking the time for letting us into your beautiful home for sitting down and doing this podcast with us we are so greatly appreciative of it what is next for you next so i mean i've got two amazing movies coming out next year the almond and the seahorse

which is my first like flurry into serious acting after such a long time and then a big cheerleading comedy on Netflix called Senior Year that I also produce I'm very proud of it and you guys like it is the cutest funniest movie it just brings so much joy and it's awesome and the new like a lot of new discoveries in the cast there and they're like so cute so I hope you guys check it out and then I'm directing co-directing a movie that I also wrote called Girl Group coming up so we're just about to cast for that in all your spare time yeah and like yeah there's 10 billion things going on but it's really awesome like there's just so many opportunities and going really good i have to turn down a lot of jobs because i'm like so busy oh don't don't tell anyone else

but what an amazing place to be in as well and like congratulations on everything that you've achieved on the books on the films it's really been step by step and it has been such a hard journey and whatever but um yeah to be now like god directing a hollywood studio movie i never thought they'd trust me with that kind of responsibility but they have insanity it's gonna be awesome and the movie's very much like pitch perfect which i'm very very proud of well it only took us two years to get you on the podcast but i'm glad you i'm glad you finally slid back into my dms thank you so much rebel for coming on the podcast i'm sure you have some more exciting things coming up that you can't probably talk about yeah yeah there are a few i'm being

tight-lipped about things because my publicist will get very angry if i talk if i announce them too quickly but if you've got young kids like bella the brave the kind of four to eight age range i think is it's a really good age range for that and then also if you guys like live theater and like checking out a new australian musical the deb is on at the australian theater for young people starting in february is i mean again it's like the cutest and just to support new australian stuff really i don't know whether you guys saw muriel's wedding the musical but like oh god i love that and it's just so rare to see australian stuff new stuff being developed i think after the incredibly hard couple of years that theater and and just any sort of life performance has had

because of the situation of the world if you can get out there and support it yeah you absolutely should yeah well you're a legend you're an inspiration rebel wilson on life uncut thanks for coming or slash letting us in your house thanks thanks laura yeah i know yeah thank you you guys for coming appreciate and for bringing the snacks and um guys I hope 2022 rocks it I hope 2022 comes through wait I'm trying to think of a catchphrase guys I really hope 2022 comes through for you you know that we never finish an episode without our suck and our sweet our highlight and our low light of each and every week and Brittany what is yours okay I have a suck it's not a big one but it sucked I went for a walk a few days ago with Keisha I was meeting her at the end of

Bondi promenade she messaged ahead of time she knows me well she's like I feel like you need a coffee can I get you one and I said girlfriend you know it get me a double shot and I need it ready stat did you demand it like that did you say and I need it ready stat deliver it to me in all honesty it would have been like thanks babe that'd be the best love you it would have been completely opposite I'm just trying to be a badass bitch anyway so I like yes would absolutely love that really needed this coffee get there and the coffee the milk and I don't know how this happens but the milk was completely off it was disgusting but we'd walked too far away from the cafe to go back how does a coffee shop in Bondi how are they so unbusy that their milk goes off

that's a really great question I don't know what went amiss shall we unpack this I don't know what went amiss but I thought maybe maybe I've got COVID maybe my taste buds are off could this be happening I've made Keisha taste it she's like that's absolutely right I just like really put damper on my day we're too far away to go back and i just i admitted defeat i didn't have a coffee you know that you have a really good friend when you're like i think my coffee is off can you try it why would you try it also no make sure i don't have covid is my coffee i'll drink out of my cup don't try this at home people and what is your sweet actually i already know what your sweet is okay my sweet i'm gonna go rogue i have a multitude of sweets i have i feel like you're

supposed to narrow it down to one sweet that's the whole point we're supposed to have one but It's the first big episode back of the year. So you're going to make up for the last four weeks off. I have three. Okay, I have three. Number one, Rebels episode, we finally did it. It was so great to finally get her on the podcast and it's something that you guys have requested for a long time.

So I just felt really good about delivering that to the people. I also think if you manifest anything in your life, if you dream you can achieve people, that's what this is proof of. I am the queen of manifestation. I'm big on manifestation. Okay, so that's my sweet number one. suite number two is I'm moving house in two weeks but it's my suite because it's just happened Laura is moving too there's a lot of reshuffling going around at Life Uncut and it does mean

we are finally going to have a dedicated room for a studio we don't have to be on each other's beds anymore we don't have to rearrange the house furniture you know what it also means it means Lola is no longer going to be sleeping in a hallway Lola is not in the hallway anymore it's going to be just a great time to be alive and my number three suite is obviously I'm not going to go into it in depth but we did the radio show our very very first show launched and we're just beyond excited grateful chuffed i just feel very very lucky to have that as my job and just thanks to everyone for the support so they are my three sweets and also for anybody if you missed the radio show you can jump on and listen to it on the podcast we're going to be dropping it into

the podcast feed every single saturday life uncut radio show we're pretty huckley and laura band so you can jump on have a listen to that but obviously we'd love you to listen to it live because we would like to not rate shit. I'm also adding a fourth suite. No, we're done. One more suite. This is not the Brittany Hockley show. It is today.

I am releasing a fourth suite. I'm releasing it now. I am. This is an exclusive suite, everybody. This is an exclusive release. We hit 20 million and that is a time to celebrate as well. So we finally hit the 20 million downloads. So I have four suites this week.

I'm being super greedy. Okay, I'm coming in hot with my suck. So this week, even though we're just back at work, it has been a incredibly challenging it's just like work work is just like like it's piled up it's been a very stressful week there's been a lot on and I had a night out on Thursday night where I was supposed to go out for a nice romantic night with Matt we're gonna go for dinner we went to Pastor Amelia which is this little cute pasta shop in Surrey Hills and I walked in and I started crying in public and then I had to go to the bathroom and cry and it wasn't necessarily to

with matt it was just a very overwhelming day but i cried in public and it's not my it wasn't my best look babe you never cry over pasta pasta makes you happy carbs make you happy i cried into my pasta so that was my suck for the week i beat my off milk public crying also public emotions so you guys know like laura is not one of those cries that it can be like cute and go fly under the radar like when laura cries you know she's cried it wasn't a glistening tear just running down my cheek I just go instantly like I've got pink eye and I also go like a toddler who can't get their breath that's me when I cry okay and my sweet for the week I mean look Brittany already took the she took the thunder it's all the same radio 20 million being back just being back and

doing the podcast you know what it's we love doing this we love creating this content it was awesome interviewing rebel and yeah that is it from us if you have loved the episode jump on to apple podcast leave a review share the love tell your friends and mom tell your dad tell your dog tell your friends and share the love because we love them