Rebel Wilson Wallops Backers Of Her Directing Debut ‘The Deb’ For Nixing Pic From Closing Toronto Festival Slot – Watch
deadline.comWhen you cross actress and first time director Rebel Wilson, you better expect a Rebel yell. She has just dropped a video post, hammering by name some of the backers of her directorial debut Deb, who she claims prevented the film from making its world premiere as the closing night film at TIFF.
This comes after Wilson singled out for scorn Sacha Baron Cohen over the 2016 comedy The Brothers Grimsby, in which he played a soccer hooligan who helps his secret agent brother save the world.
She played his wife. She was selling a memoir, and he denied her allegations. You can watch Wilson express her disappointment over her Australian musical Deb, as she levels some pretty serious charges against her backers.
Here is the text of the words from Wilson: “So you might have noticed that I did a post a couple, you know, like a week ago, about my film, the first film that I’ve directed that I’m so proud of The Deb, which is a little Australian original musical that is so cute, and it’s awesome that it got selected for closing night of the Toronto Film Festival, which is like movie just you know, best platform and to be a first time female director.
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