Rebel Wilson has responded with an expletive-laden tirade to the producers of her directorial debut, The Deb, after they filed legal action against her.
The 44-year-old Pitch Perfect actress made her views very clear after it emerged that the producers of her film were suing her for defamation in a shocking incident.
Producers Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, and executive producer Vince Holden filed a lawsuit after Rebel accused them of blocking the premiere of her film at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
The trio filed an amended complaint on Tuesday (AEST), prompting Wilson to respond with a harsh statement aimed at Len Blavatnik, the billionaire whose company AI Film financed the coming-of-age musical.
‘Len Blavatnik, please stop funding and protecting Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden,’ Wilson wrote in an impassioned post on her Instagram Stories.
Calling the producers “idiots,” he continued his tirade, also accusing them of being “vile and disgusting.”
“It is clear that these recent press articles and the continued retaliation against me for speaking the truth about my little Australian film are FALSE,” Wilson continued.
“All I did was tell the truth about these complete morons. Now they are filing a false defamation lawsuit and producing fake articles to cause even more damage.”
The Bridesmaids actress is currently in Paris and shared a series of snaps to her Instagram Stories on Thursday showing the action at the 2024 Olympics and herself posing next to a Fiat in the French capital.
Rebel Wilson has responded to the producers of her directorial debut, The Deb, with an expletive-laden tirade after they filed legal action against her.
Wilson first lashed out at the trio of producers on July 10, for allegedly blocking the film’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (a scene from The Deb is shown).
This comes after The Deb’s producers branded Wilson a “malicious bully” in a defamation lawsuit filed against her as the fallout from the film’s botched release continues to deteriorate.
In their amended complaint, The Deb producers claimed Wilson defamed them in an Instagram post in which he accused the trio of embezzling money from the film’s budget and also claimed Ghost sexually harassed one of the lead actresses.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted AI Film for comment.
Neither Wilson nor the producers of The Deb (Ghost, Cameron and executive producer Holden) have commented further to the press.
However, Wilson’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, said “the number of people who support Rebel’s experience is staggering” in a statement provided to Deadline on Thursday.
Rebel first lashed out at the producers on July 10 for allegedly blocking the film’s premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In the four-minute video, the Australian star launched accusations at the trio of producers, accusing them of “bad behavior” and “inappropriate conduct.”
Wilson’s directorial debut, The Deb, centers on two teenagers preparing to attend a debutante ball in the Australian outback (Wilson appears in the film).
The producers almost immediately denied the allegations and later took legal action in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Less than a week later, long after The Deb was confirmed as the closing night choice of the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, Wilson added American entertainment litigator Freedman to his legal team.
Ghost, Cameron and Holden then amended their complaint earlier this week, citing Wilson’s allegations against Sacha Baron Cohen that he made in his autobiography earlier this year.
“This is normal for Rebel,” the suit states. “In her autobiography, Rebel included false accusations about alleged inappropriate behavior by well-known actor Sacha Baron Cohen.
‘Because of these false accusations, parts of his autobiography were removed when it was published in the UK and Australia.’
Wilson is currently in Paris and shared a series of snaps on her Instagram showing the action at the 2024 Olympics and herself posing next to a Fiat in the French capital.
Prior to her dispute with The Deb producers, Wilson made headlines when she accused Sacha Baron Cohen of pressuring her to do nudity on the set of The Brothers Grimsby, which he has firmly denied.
Prior to her dispute with The Deb producers, Wilson made headlines earlier this year when she accused Cohen of pressuring her to perform nudity on the set of the 2016 film The Brothers Grimsby.
The explosive claims were made in his memoir, Rebel Rising. Cohen denied the allegations and successfully sued to have the passages about him removed from editions of the book published in Wilson’s native Australia and the United Kingdom, though they remain in the United States and other international territories.
Wilson’s directorial debut, The Deb, centers on two teenagers preparing to attend a debutante ball in the Australian outback.
Carcoar, Blayney, Orange and Sydney are just some of the New South Wales filming locations; Rebel has previously compared the tone of the film to cult classics Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
“If I had to direct a film, it would only be in Australia because for me it’s something authentic,” he told the Saturday Telegraph during a behind-the-scenes production tour last October.
‘I didn’t want to do the studio jobs that were offered to me in the United States because I didn’t feel I had that connection to the heart.’
