How Sacha Baron Cohen Is Quietly Pushing Back on Rebel Wilson’s Claims
Sacha Baron Cohen has been mostly mum when it comes to the allegations that actress Rebel Wilson revealed in her new memoir Rebel Rising. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t actively pushing back.
As outlined in an email Baron Cohen’s representatives sent to The Daily Beast, his team has meticulously compiled documents, including a call sheet schedule, script page, and anonymous statements from several crew members who worked on the film The Brothers Grimsby, which Baron Cohen and Wilson starred in together. The actor’s reps say the compiled materials “dispute” Wilson’s claim that Baron Cohen asked her to perform a sexual act on him that wasn’t for the film.
Wilson described the incident with Baron Cohen again this week in an interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “Obviously it’s not for the movie,” she said, describing the time she claims Baron Cohen asked her to stick a finger in his butt while they worked on Grimsby. “There’s no camera crew, the sound crew, they’re off in a different part of the stadium filming the actual movie. So his buddies had iPhones and were filming the whole thing and I’m just horrified,” she continued. Wilson had previously accused Baron Cohen of trying to stop her book from being released in the first place.