i didn t predict the pandemic, but weirdly, i thought sometimes i m a little psychic and i go, oh, ifeel like i m not gonna be working much this year and i feel like turning 40, i m gonna, like, concentrate on my health, and i was dealing with fertility stuff and the doctors were like, well, you know, if you were healthier, you d have better chances, so that all kind of culminated, and so the moment it hit 2020, iwas like, 0k, yeah, it s gonna be my year of health. i m gonna put it, like, publicly out on instagram and stuff for accountability! but i think that that s. .. and who knows whether that was the smartest but. and why was that important for you to do it that way? um, because i did want to make a lasting change and i wanted to be accountable to myself for it, so making it very public kind of helped helped. it was risky, i guess. before i i had lost weight and then put it back on and, you know, you get criticism sometimes for that, and it wasjust, yeah, ijust w
but there still there still need to be more. but i guess those are the changes that you can make now that you re in these roles as a producer and director. yeah, and so, like, on my movie senior year that ijust produced, i had, like, a young actress play the younger version of me and she came came over from australia, so she s in a foreign country, she s vulnerable and ijust said, like, if you have any any issues, if anybody is doing something, you know, or says something or whatever, please come to me as the female producer on the film and i want to particularly, you know, protect and i had a lot of young cast in that movie and just i feel very conscious of, like, you know, making sure they feel safe. are you hopeful that you ll win an academy award one day? is that your aim? uh, yeah, that that would be the goal. and i was so lucky to be injojo rabbit, that got nominated for, like, best picture that was such a gorgeous movie and i think and then now, you know, doing
where you kind of get the crappier roles like, the rolesjust weren t as well written, as well developed. it would just be very hard to kind of put kind of your comedy or yourjokes sometimes into it if you didn t have any power. so what i did is i used all those experiences in a positive way and, like, learned stuff from watching these guys and but really wanted to get to the point 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 g
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 gonna happen and so, i m trying not to have any expectations set on an outcome, just that i m the healthiest i can be, i m gonna try and what will happen will happen. you tweeted a few years back about sexual harassment that you had experienced in the industry. yep. and you had said at the time you were no longer going to be polite about it. tell me a little bit more about what happened to you if you want to. yeah, um, i mean. and how you dealt with it. i guess, in terms of sexual harassment, like, all women in the industry have had, like, things like the little comments when you ve been in meetings and you ve be got to try to be one of the boys and, like, laugh along with the jokes even they re talking about other actresses and stuff in a way that s, like, not really cool. but i only had, like
because i look at what happened for me in 2019 i had, like, four pretty successful movies come out 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