Rebel Wilson takes aim at A-list star

Rebel Wilson has claimed she was snubbed a relation successful favour of Melissa McCarthy due to the fact that the second was “friends” with the filmmakers.

The Australian actress, who is blistery connected the publicity way for her bombshell memoir Rebel Rising, said she primitively auditioned for McCarthy’s scene-stealing quality Megan successful the 2011 drama Bridesmaids, but claimed she ne'er stood a accidental owed to the US actress’ relationship with manager Paul Feig.

Speaking connected signifier astatine the London Palladium connected Monday, section time, Wilson – who besides appeared in Bridesmaids successful a overmuch smaller relation – said, “So I really auditioned for the Melissa McCarthy relation and they were ever going to springiness it to Melissa due to the fact that she was their friend,” according to The Mirror.

Wilson yet landed the tiny portion of Brynn successful the movie – who was the oddball sister of UK comedian Matt Lucas’ quality Gil.

While her tiny but memorable quality successful Bridesmaids helped her forge a vocation successful Hollywood, with Wilson going connected to onshore the relation of Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect a fewer months later, the prima said she was disappointed not to beryllium fixed a bigger part.

“So I travel successful [for my audition] and commencement improvising and it went connected for an hour. You cognize an audition is bully erstwhile it goes successful for an hour,” Wilson said.

“I got the telephone and they said ‘You got the part!’ And I went, ‘What, the role?!’ And they went ‘Not that role. You truly look similar Matt Lucas. He’s this British comedian and he’s already been formed successful the movie truthful we’re conscionable going to adhd you successful arsenic his sister.’

“So I’m like, ‘Alright!’ I was like, ‘I conjecture it’s OK, but I truly wanted the Melissa McCarthy role’. They were similar ‘You’ve been formed successful a Hollywood film’ and I was similar ‘Yeah, but I don’t truly person a role.’”

Wilson’s flurry of revelations successful her book, which went connected merchantability successful April, person seen the Aussie prima deed planetary headlines implicit the past fewer weeks, from her sordid allegations against UK histrion Sacha Baron Cohen, to claims a British royal household subordinate erstwhile invited her to an orgy.

Australian and New Zealand versions of the publication were initially held from shelves owed to a ineligible conflict regarding the section astir Baron Cohen, which was resolved successful precocious April.

HarperCollins Australia confirmed that “for ineligible reasons we person redacted 1 section successful the Australian/New Zealand variation and included an explanatory enactment accordingly. That section is simply a precise tiny portion of a overmuch bigger communicative and we’re excited for readers to cognize Rebel’s communicative erstwhile the publication is released, connected Wednesday 8 May.”

The chapter, titled “Sacha Baron Cohen and Other A**holes”, volition beryllium printed wholly arsenic blacked retired lines, making the Australian variation of Rebel Rising the astir redacted mentation of the publication successful the world. Differences successful defamation instrumentality astir the satellite person determined however overmuch of the section tin beryllium included.

Wilson besides pulled the pin connected her section publication tour, citing her “changing enactment schedule.”