where i had the power to make the movies and choose the storylines and choose the characters and choose who i put in the movies and it s just cool cos you can be more authentic and put more of your messages and my latest one, it s just so girl power and there s so many. and this is your movie that you re directing next year? uh, no, this is the one i vejust shot. you ve just shot that? yeah, just shot. and you are gonna you are directing a movie as well? yeah, and then i ve now now gone even further and been offered a directing job for a movie script that i ve written called girl group, so that ll go into production in 2022. and i m so passionate about the stories i want to tell and so, why not go for the topjob? talking of empowerment, you ve been on a year of health. yeah. i didn t predict the pandemic, but weirdly, i thought sometimes i m a little psychic and i go, 0h, ifeel like i m not gonna be working much this year and i feel like turning 40, i m gonna, like, concentra
and, like, it was so real! everyone thought, no, she s just demented, but that was enough to convince me that that s what my life was gonna be. so i come back to australia and i go, guys, i m going to become a professional actress i have seen it, i m gonna win an academy award. it s, like, really good, and everyone was like, oh, my god . like, no . like, you re an idiot. like, no one s gonna pick you, like, you re not an actress. like, you re not you re naturally quite a shier person. i was like, yeah, but i ve seen the vision. so i went and enrolled in law school but did acting sneaky at night to try and get in there, yeah. so what about, like, so when bridesmaids took off, was that. yeah, i mean, that was big cos they came they came over for the premiere and they were like, 0h, she is like legit now, yeah. it s interesting because i have read that you you were successful with bridesmaids at age 30. yeah, yeah, i came to hollywood when i was.
in an academy award nominated film and, like, producing my first movie and then doing all this stuff. can i can i read you one headline? oh, yeah, sure. rebel wilson has a bond girl moment in an incredible curve hugging swimsuit. wow. how do you feel about those words? i never thought i d be described anywhere near a bond girl! but how do you feel about those sorts of headlines about your weight loss? i ve noticed that it s been getting a lot of attention and i go, so, is that what a woman has to do in the world is lose just lose weight to, like, get attention? for me, it was so much bigger. it was aboutjust being the healthiest version of me, so it wasn t about the size or a number or whatever. but it s fascinating why are people so obsessed with it? like, i know what it s like to be a woman who is essentially invisible to most people because of not being seen as traditionally, like, beautiful or whatever, so i know what it s
and all kind of pursuing options and so, we all talk about it, but not not just so publicly sometimes because it can be an emotional roller coaster and i certainly, you know, froze went all this trouble and froze my eggs and then, unfortunately because of my condition, the quality of the eggs wasn t wasn t good enough and i have to repeat the process and keep doing it and keep trying and put a lot of effort in. and that was part of the reason why i tried to get healthier as well. i m still trying on the fertilityjourney, even though, like, it is emotional and you get hopeful and then, you know, your hopes are dashed and so it s like, ifeel for any woman going through it but i was the classic example of, like, a career woman who went out into the world, didn t even think about kids and then suddenly, in your mid 30s, is like oh, hang on do i want that as an option? and if i do, what do i need to do? it could be great if i had my own children but i don t know whether that s go
and, like, had done all this amazing stuff career wise, but then in the next year, all i did wasjust lose 80 pounds. and, like, the attention that gets. it was insane. ..is way more than being in an academy award nominated film and, like, producing my first movie and then doing all this stuff. can i can i read you one headline? oh, yeah, sure. rebel wilson has a bond girl moment in an incredible curve hugging swimsuit. wow. how do you feel about those words? i never thought i d be described anywhere near a bond girl! but how do you feel about those sorts of headlines about your weight loss? i ve noticed that it s been getting a lot of attention and i go, so, is that what a woman has to do in the world is lose just lose weight to, like, get attention? for me, it was so much bigger. it was aboutjust being the healthiest version of me, so it wasn t about the size or a number or whatever. but it s fascinating why are people so obsessed with it? like, i know what it s like to