Speaker 1: Hey guys, and a big, big, big welcome back to
Speaker 1: another episode of Life One Cut. It is our first
Speaker 1: official episode back of twenty twenty two, and we are
Speaker 1: so so chuffed to be back in your ears.
Speaker 2: I'm Laura and this is Brittany, and god, it feels
Speaker 2: good to be back. How was everyone's holiday?
Speaker 1: Although I feel like that was already twenty five months ago? Also,
Speaker 1: was that just a rhetorical question? Like, everybody's sitting in
Speaker 1: your cars right now, wherever you're listening to this podcast,
Speaker 1: just give us like ten seconds answer?
Speaker 2: How was it? Did you get the spicy corfee you're feeling? Okay?
Speaker 2: Did you manage to avoid it? Okay? All of us did?
Speaker 1: Hey, Laura, that was a rhetorical question. I was just
Speaker 1: putting it out to the people. You don't all have
Speaker 1: to DM me how your holiday was. But I do
Speaker 1: hope everyone had a really great break. And I did
Speaker 1: say this earlier, Laura. When is it that you stop
Speaker 1: seeing Happy New Year? Oh?
Speaker 2: Definitely, we've said it. You said this on the last
Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Done.
Speaker 2: People are still in my inbox Happy New Year?
Speaker 1: No, everybody in my inbox now is like, dear Laura
Speaker 1: insert pleasantries about COVID, Like that's what everybody's email says
Speaker 1: at the moment.
Speaker 2: No my emails, Dear Brittany, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: Following up on the one hundred emails I have sent
Speaker 1: you over the last four months, can you please get
Speaker 1: back to me? Oh, it's like this, everyone's still I
Speaker 1: know where that we were at the eighteenth of January,
Speaker 1: but everyone's still in that weird phase of like, are
Speaker 1: you back fully into work? Do you hate your life already?
Speaker 1: Does twenty twenty two stuck? Is it going to be amazing?
Speaker 1: Have you actually broken your New Year's resolutions or managed
Speaker 1: to exercise every day for the past two weeks?
Speaker 2: If you have, good on you, I certainly haven't.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to jinx myself, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: excited to say I still haven't been.
Speaker 2: I still haven't improved myself from last year. I haven't
Speaker 2: touched my New Year's resolution.
Speaker 1: Happy to say I am exactly the same amount of
Speaker 1: hot mess as I was in twenty twenty one. Nothing
Speaker 1: has changed, and I feel good about it. New Year's
Speaker 1: resolutions are always a bit too ambitious for me. I
Speaker 1: will never not be a hot mess. I don't think
Speaker 1: that day's ever gonna come.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: What I'm gonna say is I feel like I just
Speaker 1: spend every day now and it's a gamble.
Speaker 2: I'm like, when's it gonna happen every day? Dodging COVID.
Speaker 1: I am one of the people that have somehow managed
Speaker 1: to live in the epicenter of COVID. Bondai I diagnosed
Speaker 1: COVID throughout the start of the pandemic. When I was
Speaker 1: working in the hospital, I traveled to America where there
Speaker 1: was COVID. I do not know how I was around you,
Speaker 1: Laura when you got diagnosed. I was like, great, Laura's
Speaker 1: ruined Christmas for me. Me it was me, I ruined
Speaker 1: Christmas for every time.
Speaker 2: I'm like, great, I've got COVID.
Speaker 1: Laura's got COVID, Mad's got COVID. I'd been around all
Speaker 1: these people that got COVID. I was like, one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: I'm getting it. I've dodged it. I don't know how,
Speaker 1: and you watch, I'll probably get it tomorrow now that
Speaker 1: I've jinxed myself on the podcast. Did you see the
Speaker 1: media release that actually came out that if you don't
Speaker 1: get it by January, they give you a prize.
Speaker 2: Shut up, I'll take it anyway. Guys.
Speaker 1: That enough about the COVID chat the word that she'll
Speaker 1: never be said again. We have an awesome, awesome episode
Speaker 1: for you today. We are coming in as hot as
Speaker 1: we could possibly come in back at twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: Steaming.
Speaker 1: Oh god, we are steaming. We are burning, we are
Speaker 1: sizzling in this episode. Do you know who is steaming
Speaker 1: in this episode? Wilson Well, part of Reblue Steaming for sure.
Speaker 1: Brittany finally used her powers for good. She got Rebel
Speaker 1: Wilson rebels on the pod. She's here, she joins, Actually,
Speaker 1: do you know what? We joined her? We went to
Speaker 1: Rebe Wilson's house. We sat in her ridiculously bougie house.
Speaker 1: She asked us if we wanted steelwater or sparkling water.
Speaker 1: We wrote in the elevator for fun. We didn't even
Speaker 1: have to go upstairs.
Speaker 2: We just did it. Her house is three levels and
Speaker 2: it has an elevator.
Speaker 1: It's like it's a beautiful home, yes, with beautiful water
Speaker 1: with a jetty. Anyway, before we get into that, we
Speaker 1: want to say a very big thank you to our
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Speaker 1: board today. It has already been a bloody massive year.
Speaker 1: First off the ranks is that we finally hit twenty
Speaker 1: million downloads, and we wanted to say thank you so
Speaker 1: much to all of you who listened last year, to
Speaker 1: every single person who's supported the podcast, who's been part
Speaker 1: of the Facebook group, who's been part of the discussions,
Speaker 1: every single one of you who's written a message to
Speaker 1: us saying that an episode has helped you in a way,
Speaker 1: or you've given us maybe you've messaged us and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you really should talk about this, and we've taken your
Speaker 1: topic advice. So we just want to say thank you
Speaker 1: so much because without you, guys, we never would have
Speaker 1: gotten to twenty million. Literally, it still blows my mind
Speaker 1: that we have been listening to twenty million times. Laura,
Speaker 1: and for those people that are new, even in the
Speaker 1: last year. I guess we've been around for about two
Speaker 1: and a half years now. I think I just have
Speaker 1: to do the math. I think it's about two and
Speaker 1: a half years, about two hundred and twenty ish episodes.
Speaker 2: Can you believe we've spent that much time together? Every
Speaker 2: day it's sunny, spend more time with you than I
Speaker 2: do with Matt and my own children.
Speaker 1: I know we are the real love story here, but
Speaker 1: I remember, for those of you that are on you
Speaker 1: and haven't been with us from the very beginning, first
Speaker 1: of all, go back to the beginning and you'll have
Speaker 1: probably a lull at how far we have come and
Speaker 1: a difference in the records.
Speaker 2: But I remember Laura and I.
Speaker 1: Doing our very first record, and I remember we were
Speaker 1: saying to each other, oh my god, I hope someone
Speaker 1: listens to us. How many people would you be stoked for?
Speaker 1: And we were like, we hope five hundred people listen.
Speaker 1: We hope five hundred people we can reach. It just
Speaker 1: went bonkers at the start, but I think the first
Speaker 1: episode only got maybe, like don't quote me, five thousand listens,
Speaker 1: and Laura and I were beside ourselves. We were just
Speaker 1: so excited that we had this new platform that we
Speaker 1: could speak to you guys, that we could form this community,
Speaker 1: and I think we just had no idea how far
Speaker 1: we would come and the community we would create. And
Speaker 1: for us, the best part is the community. We've said
Speaker 1: it so many times, but we just cannot get enough
Speaker 1: of you guys and the love and the support and
Speaker 1: the bloody hilarity that you bring to life on cut Well.
Speaker 1: I think the best part of it is that we
Speaker 1: didn't really go I mean, Britta and I we did
Speaker 1: nothing special to create this community. You guys created it yourselves.
Speaker 1: We brought the content, and you guys brought the conversation.
Speaker 1: And I think it's just a testament to the fact that,
Speaker 1: like dating's fucking hard, we've all had really challenging experiences
Speaker 1: when it comes to being heartbroken and when it comes
Speaker 1: to trying to navigate what our love lives are. And
Speaker 1: that's what this all started out as at the very beginning.
Speaker 1: It was a space to be able to kind of
Speaker 1: wade through the shit of what relationships are. And there's
Speaker 1: something incredibly galvanizing. I know, I say the word galvanizing
Speaker 1: a lot because you guys have been talking about it
Speaker 1: in the Facebook group. But there's something incredibly bonding over heartbreak,
Speaker 1: and that's where it started.
Speaker 2: Laura pools up and saw us on a computer. Literally.
Speaker 1: Actually, that was something that did come up over the
Speaker 1: Christmas break, over the holidays, and I really loved it.
Speaker 1: And we're trying to work out a way that we
Speaker 1: can make something physical in this world. Somebody put together,
Speaker 1: one of you fucking legends put together a drinking game.
Speaker 2: And it was in the podcast.
Speaker 1: It's like, every time Laura says one of these words,
Speaker 1: you take a shot, every time Brittany says one of
Speaker 1: these words like lol Cano, you take a shot.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was brilliant and.
Speaker 1: I thought there must be something in this that we
Speaker 1: can make a physical game that we give you guys
Speaker 1: that you can I guess just get drunk on. But
Speaker 1: well done to whoever made that. We absolutely loved it.
Speaker 1: I had a really good chuckle. The other quick thing
Speaker 1: that we wanted to tell you is we do have
Speaker 1: just such a huge year planned for you guys, and
Speaker 1: one of the big things we're kicking off with is radio.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's not new to you because we've been
Speaker 1: so chuffed about it and so hyped about it. We've
Speaker 1: spoken about it, we've promoted, we've we've linked you, We've
Speaker 1: done everything we can. But we did have our first
Speaker 1: show last week.
Speaker 2: Just on the weekend.
Speaker 3: Went well.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I was so nervous, who fucking knows,
Speaker 1: But we did it. We've got the first cab off
Speaker 1: the rank and it can only get better from here.
Speaker 2: It can only get better from here.
Speaker 1: Now, someone I want to talk to you about where
Speaker 1: things aren't going so well, is Drake. Please tell me
Speaker 1: you have about the situation with Drake and the condiment,
Speaker 1: this spicy condoment. I mean, it's a saucy story, guys.
Speaker 1: This is the story that we Nobody could have ever
Speaker 1: thought that twenty twenty two was going to kick off
Speaker 1: with this. But it's truly the story that has brought
Speaker 1: a lot of joy and also a lot of questions
Speaker 1: into my life. If you haven't heard the story that
Speaker 1: has happened to Drake, it's been circulating in the news.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't say it's.
Speaker 1: Very reputable news sources like it's not been on news
Speaker 1: dot com, for example, not.
Speaker 2: Lad Bible, call TACD.
Speaker 1: It's on lab Bible, It's been on Daily Mail, but
Speaker 1: there is an Instagram model who has come out and
Speaker 1: accused Drake of tampering with his condoms. Now, when I
Speaker 1: say tampering with his condoms, I don't mean that he
Speaker 1: has been putting holes in them or doing any of that.
Speaker 1: I mean after he's ejaculated, he's tampering with the sperm,
Speaker 1: his own sperm, tampering with his own sperm to stop
Speaker 1: anybody from trying to steal his sperm, which is just
Speaker 1: very There's a lot of questions around how you get
Speaker 1: to that point. Basically, Drake cooked up with an Instagram
Speaker 1: model at a party, and the alleged sauce goes like this.
Speaker 1: After the party, they went back to his hotel. They
Speaker 1: smoked some weed for a bit, and he asked if
Speaker 1: she wanted to have sex.
Speaker 2: She said.
Speaker 1: He was very intent on ensuring things were consensual. He
Speaker 1: then went to the bathroom and came out with a
Speaker 1: condom on After they'd finished having sex, Drake supposedly went
Speaker 1: to the bathroom to dispose of the condom. Now, the
Speaker 1: Instagram model who has gone unnamed, has fished the condom
Speaker 1: out of the trash, untied it, and put the opening
Speaker 1: of that condom into her vagina.
Speaker 2: She's tried to impregnate herself secretly in the bathroom after
Speaker 2: they have had consensual sex.
Speaker 1: Yes, that she was in for a bit of a surprise.
Speaker 1: She's in for a bit of a spicy surprise because
Speaker 1: Drake had put hot sauce into his own condom to
Speaker 1: try and kill the sperm, thinking that maybe this was
Speaker 1: going to happen. There are so many things here that
Speaker 1: I just want to pick my drop off the ground on.
Speaker 1: Let's just start from one who.
Speaker 2: Carries hot sauce.
Speaker 1: But this is the Okay, this is the question. Did
Speaker 1: he carry hot sauce with the specific intention of using
Speaker 1: it to kill the sperm, or was it just like,
Speaker 1: oh fuck, I've got this sperm. I'm worried she's gonna
Speaker 1: try and take it instead.
Speaker 2: Of putting it.
Speaker 1: We'll just quickly go and get the food that I've
Speaker 1: ordered room service, and I'll get some hot sauce from that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, he one hund And this is actually, let's be
Speaker 1: serious for a minute. This is very really really serious issue.
Speaker 1: He has been carrying the hot sauce. Obviously, I didn't
Speaker 1: know hot sauce killed sperm. He obviously carries that because
Speaker 1: this is an issue for him. He's obviously worried that
Speaker 1: women and it's probably not the first time that women
Speaker 1: are going to try and fall pregnant to him.
Speaker 2: And I think that what a.
Speaker 1: World we have to live in if you need to
Speaker 1: carry hot sauce and then pour it into your own
Speaker 1: news condom.
Speaker 2: And I mean lucky he did, because she tried to
Speaker 2: do it. She literally tried to do it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know the story in itself is like pretty funny,
Speaker 1: but if this was reverse, like if this was a
Speaker 1: guy and a girl in the situation were reversed, I
Speaker 1: don't think we would think of it as being so funny.
Speaker 1: So I do think that we have to acknowledge that
Speaker 1: the conversation around consent here is very, very problematic, and
Speaker 1: this is a fucking huge issue that he even has
Speaker 1: to do it in the first place. But the thing
Speaker 1: that makes this story so outrageous and wild is that
Speaker 1: the Instagram model in question has come out and said
Speaker 1: that she is suing Drake. She is going to be
Speaker 1: the one to sue Drake because of the damages that
Speaker 1: have occurred to her vagina after she tried to steal
Speaker 1: his sperm from the hot sauce. Because she was literally
Speaker 1: on fire, so she I mean, could you imagine putting
Speaker 1: a bit of tabasco in yr.
Speaker 2: Haha, and then.
Speaker 1: But then trying to sue, Like, in my mind, surely
Speaker 1: there is no person on this earth that would let
Speaker 1: her win in this situation when she tried to steal
Speaker 1: his sperm from a condom and inseminate herself.
Speaker 2: Surely there is no judge in history that is.
Speaker 1: Going to say, yes, Drake, you need to pay her
Speaker 1: damages for something that she did to herself. I guess
Speaker 1: the question is that maybe I mean, if you're a lawyer,
Speaker 1: I want to know, like, how is this going to play.
Speaker 2: Out an American lawyer?
Speaker 1: Maybe there's something around intent, because if he's doing it
Speaker 1: knowing full well that someone is going to do that
Speaker 1: to themselves, he's setting up a trap where someone's going
Speaker 1: to cause it's going to cause bodily harm to them,
Speaker 1: even if the intention of them was something.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean? Yeah? But I imagine imagine, for.
Speaker 1: Example, if you had someone try and break into your house,
Speaker 1: and you thought someone's going to break in through that window,
Speaker 1: and you set up an automatic gun or something that
Speaker 1: when they opened the window, it shot them you would
Speaker 1: be sued because you are the one who, even though
Speaker 1: they tried to break in, you caused harm to them.
Speaker 1: So I think, in this crazy, fucked up world, she
Speaker 1: might actually have some stance for suing him.
Speaker 2: It's wild.
Speaker 1: I will give up on humanity if that's the case,
Speaker 1: if she actually wins.
Speaker 2: But this is really a thing.
Speaker 1: So when I when I delved into this, there are
Speaker 1: there are whole basketball teams like NBA teams. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of sporting teams whose management tell them advise them.
Speaker 1: They have group meetings and they're like, if you go
Speaker 1: on hook up with a woman, if you're having a
Speaker 1: one night stand, if you're doing whatever else, you take
Speaker 1: your condom, you tie it up, you put in your pocket,
Speaker 1: you put it in a bag. You do not put
Speaker 1: it in a bin, You do not leave it or
Speaker 1: you you make sure it's one hundred p cent disposed of.
Speaker 1: It's obviously an issue that's reoccurring totally. But what team
Speaker 1: manager is saying, Hey, get some hot sauce and put
Speaker 1: it in like, tie it up and put it in
Speaker 1: your backpack. Can you imagine how much Drake's can get
Speaker 1: paid to do a hot sauce commercial on Instagram. Right now,
Speaker 1: he's going to make more from a Hot Sauce company
Speaker 1: than he is from any of his music. He did
Speaker 1: come out and say, though he was a bit quiet,
Speaker 1: he's really a photo and he's put one statement up,
Speaker 1: and I think it was a bit of a power move.
Speaker 1: It was a bit of a nothing statement. You didn't
Speaker 1: know what it was about, but it's obviously about her.
Speaker 1: He just put a photo up and said, you can
Speaker 1: have your fifteen minutes of fame. I'll take the other
Speaker 1: twenty three hours.
Speaker 2: And forty five minutes. Oh, saucy, saucy boom. I like it,
Speaker 2: don't you.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, well, just when we thought twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one had everything it could possibly offer us, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two it's given us this wonderful little gem of a story.
Speaker 1: And like we said earlier, I know that there are
Speaker 1: some big conversations here around consent, and we're not making
Speaker 1: jokes of that. It's just the absolute outrageousness that I
Speaker 1: can't even believe that this is a story. I can't
Speaker 1: even believe that that's where we're at. No, No, And
Speaker 1: it's very serious. We're joking because it's hot sauce, but
Speaker 1: it's very serious. It's very serious issue of consent. But
Speaker 1: it's important to note that by all accounts and from
Speaker 1: the Instagram model that this was very much consensual on
Speaker 1: Drake's behalf. The sex, that is, the rest of it
Speaker 1: was not. So I'm interested to see how this plays out.
Speaker 1: I think that nothing's going to surprise me anymore. But
Speaker 1: follow this very very tightly. All right, well, we do
Speaker 1: have a huge episode for you today. It is a
Speaker 1: long one, but you know what, it's one that you
Speaker 1: can listen to when you drive to work and then
Speaker 1: come home from work, put it on when you're in
Speaker 1: the shower. It's going to be the gift that keeps
Speaker 1: on giving. But we're going to get into our favorite
Speaker 1: segment which we do on every episode, and that is
Speaker 1: accidentally unfiltered and confessional.
Speaker 2: Oh you have a confession. I bring in a confessional today.
Speaker 2: All right, I've gotten actually unfiltered. I'm going to go first.
Speaker 2: This one is not disgusting, which I love the fact
Speaker 2: that we need to preface it with that. All right,
Speaker 2: here we go.
Speaker 1: I went on a first date with a guy from
Speaker 1: Hinge and it ended up being a great night.
Speaker 2: Well, that is funny. We went off listen to you.
Speaker 2: He's seeing yourself and your own joke. She's fucking gone
Speaker 2: for gold, probably the best one I've done.
Speaker 1: And that's the end of the episode. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: That is, he accidentally unheltered.
Speaker 2: We went from one bar to another.
Speaker 1: We had great conversations, and he ended up coming back
Speaker 1: to mine.
Speaker 2: In the morning. We woke up and went.
Speaker 1: To go get Brecky together, and before we left, I
Speaker 1: was talking about someone I thought may have been a
Speaker 1: mutual friend of ours. I went to look them up
Speaker 1: on Facebook with him standing right next to me, and
Speaker 1: up Pops my Facebook search history, showing that I'd stalked
Speaker 1: not only him, but his brother and his grandfather.
Speaker 2: Hey, what's up, Pops?
Speaker 1: I was really doing my due diligence before the date.
Speaker 1: I went down a full on rabbit hole trying to
Speaker 1: find out as much information as possible. He was obviously
Speaker 1: really taken aback and wouldn't stop bringing it up over breakfast.
Speaker 1: Safe to say, there wasn't a second date, as I
Speaker 1: tried to come up with every excuse under the sun
Speaker 1: as to why I had looked up his brother and
Speaker 1: his grandfather and how I even knew their names in
Speaker 1: the first place. Okay, the brother I get I totally
Speaker 1: get that. The grandpa, what you tell me, what information
Speaker 1: are you gonna get from someone's pop? That's just it right,
Speaker 1: Like even if you do find the granddad, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be grand family photos.
Speaker 2: You're like, what, Like, how deep are you gonna get there?
Speaker 1: That's not hitting in Vegas with him, They're not going
Speaker 1: out partying, they're not dropping dollars. Maybe you want to
Speaker 1: see a couple more photos. Maybe she wasn't convinced about
Speaker 1: Maybe his Instagram was a little bit obscure. Can you
Speaker 1: know how some people just pose like moody you can
Speaker 1: half see their face. They look way hotter than they
Speaker 1: do in real life. Maybe she was like, pops will
Speaker 1: have a really authentic family photo.
Speaker 2: Is gonna be unfiltered.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I've got one that's similar. I have a confessional.
Speaker 1: But now, after hearing your accidently unfiltered, I might just
Speaker 1: bring it accidentally unfiltered as well, because it ties into
Speaker 1: that you can try to one up my accidentally unfiltered Si,
Speaker 1: it's not as funny as yours, So I have another
Speaker 1: funny one to ga. It's just a perfect time, Like
Speaker 1: it's a perfect okay.
Speaker 2: I could just run accidentally unfiltered's all day.
Speaker 1: So my ex got a new girlfriend and I was
Speaker 1: absolutely devastated.
Speaker 2: Relatable.
Speaker 1: My best friend asked me on a walk to take
Speaker 1: my mind off it. As I'm walking to meet my friend,
Speaker 1: I'm doing my hourly stalk of my ex's new girlfriend
Speaker 1: as you do, because we all do it, she posted
Speaker 1: a photo of them together. Me being the dramatic girl
Speaker 1: that I am, I burst into tears. I put my
Speaker 1: phone in my pocket and I ran hysterically to meet
Speaker 1: my friend.
Speaker 2: I was like.
Speaker 1: As I got to my friend, I pulled out my
Speaker 1: phone to show him the photo, only to realize that.
Speaker 2: I had run with my phone unlocked whilst I was running.
Speaker 2: My phone pulled a swift on me.
Speaker 1: It decided to not only share my ex's post to
Speaker 1: random people via message, but also to reshare I had
Speaker 1: the photo on my story safe to say my exit.
Speaker 1: Your girlfriend knows I'm an absolute pre show.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine?
Speaker 1: I mean, you did this a long time ago, but
Speaker 1: can you imagine? Can you imagine you pull up your
Speaker 1: phone and your ex has shared a photo of you
Speaker 1: and your new partner, like kissing or something on this story?
Speaker 2: Do you fuck.
Speaker 1: I yes, I can imagine this because Okay, I told
Speaker 1: this story going back.
Speaker 2: Like two years ago. I can't imagine this because it
Speaker 2: was me.
Speaker 1: If you're an OG listener, you'll know the story, but
Speaker 1: if you're not, this will be new to you because
Speaker 1: this was possibly the most mortifying thing I've ever done
Speaker 1: in my entire life. My ex boyfriend, there was a
Speaker 1: bit of overlap in my relationship with him and his
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend, right, and it made me crazy because.
Speaker 2: A cute way to say there was cheating. Well, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: It was an overlap. I didn't know at the time, right,
Speaker 1: but there was something that was amiss, Like I found
Speaker 1: out later in the relationship, there was a bit of
Speaker 1: an overlap. But it made me crazy that he was
Speaker 1: still in contact with his ex girlfriend when we had
Speaker 1: started dating. And yeah, I was like, you know, I
Speaker 1: was always talking her Instagram. Oh were not on Instagram?
Speaker 1: Wasn't around that.
Speaker 2: I was always talking her Facebook. I was talking her tumbler.
Speaker 2: She had a tumbler.
Speaker 1: Did you guys remember that she had a blook and
Speaker 1: she would always put up photos and videos and things
Speaker 1: that were like aimed at him, or songs that were
Speaker 1: aimed at him, so I was always stalking her tumbler.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I got out of the wind beneath my wings,
Speaker 2: you are the wind.
Speaker 1: No, she put up that gotcha song, you know, the
Speaker 1: one which is like somembodied that a fucking cast.
Speaker 2: Yes, it traumatized me. I was traumatized. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I got onto her Facebook this one day and I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, back in the day where the
Speaker 1: search bar and the status update, we're kind of right
Speaker 1: next to each other.
Speaker 2: So I had fat fingers, You're in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1: I typed her entire name into my status update and
Speaker 1: updated my status for five hours your ex boy to.
Speaker 2: Your boyfriend's ex girlfriend's name.
Speaker 1: And then I went to work and I got a
Speaker 1: phone call at three o'clock in the afternoon, and my
Speaker 1: boyfriend at the time was like, hey, Laura, I think
Speaker 1: you might want to change your status on Facebook, and
Speaker 1: all these people had just written question marks underneath, like
Speaker 1: question marks, question marks like I could have done. I
Speaker 1: hate myself now. If she's listening, I'm sorry, I'm not
Speaker 1: crazy anymore. You actually out as well. Do many people
Speaker 1: know us? I probably should edit that out. I think
Speaker 1: we need to change the name let's beef the name.
Speaker 2: Produce a keisha. That's your job. Beep out of the name.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that was a that's embarrassing anyway. Okay, give
Speaker 1: me your give me your last one.
Speaker 2: Give me.
Speaker 1: Then I'm going to give you a confessional because I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm sorry, but I cannot repent. I mean,
Speaker 1: you cannot repent here with us.
Speaker 2: I have PTSD from that. Bring me your confessional.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a confessional. It is a bit more
Speaker 1: of a serious confessional. I do not feel like you
Speaker 1: can repent here, But thank you for trying, and thank
Speaker 1: you for sharing. You definitely know you to go and
Speaker 1: speak to someone that can do it for you, probably
Speaker 1: like a counselor no, like your priest, like the police.
Speaker 1: When I was seven, my local church left their doors unlocked,
Speaker 1: so me and my cousins went inside snooping.
Speaker 2: They had a Christmas.
Speaker 1: Tree set up with heaps of wrapped up beautiful presents.
Speaker 1: We unwrapped every single one, we picked out what we wanted,
Speaker 1: and we took them home.
Speaker 2: A week later, somebody snitched on us. We had to.
Speaker 1: Return all of our new toys and attend Sunday school
Speaker 1: for a month as punishment.
Speaker 2: The worst part is.
Speaker 1: The presents were for underprivileged kids in a third world country.
Speaker 2: Oh that's cool. Am I a bad person? Yes? Yes?
Speaker 2: Seven or not?
Speaker 1: I am glad there was a little snitch that dubbed
Speaker 1: you in. But I just think at seven, okay it
Speaker 1: all Honestly, at seven, you don't really know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You're like, Oh, Mom's never gonna buy me that truck.
Speaker 1: I'm going to take that truck. You do know what
Speaker 1: you're doing. But guess what, people change. I'm a different
Speaker 1: person to who I was when I was seven.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope at.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven she's not stealing from under the Christmas tree anymore.
Speaker 2: But bless your soul.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's get into what you all actually
Speaker 1: came here for, because I'm sure it wasn't that. But
Speaker 1: we do have Rebel Wilson on the podcast, and if
Speaker 1: you've been following along for a little while, it's a
Speaker 1: long time come, you'll know that sporadically, over the last
Speaker 1: eighteen months, Rebel's name has been brought up for a
Speaker 1: multitude of reasons, and that Britt also just likes to
Speaker 1: drop her on her Instagram feed like they're cool.
Speaker 2: Casual friends.
Speaker 1: You guys know, Rebel's name has been dropped a multitude
Speaker 1: of times over the last eighteen months. She was always
Speaker 1: someone that I loved as an actress.
Speaker 2: I just was obsessed with her.
Speaker 1: I'd tried to get her on the podcast a few times,
Speaker 1: like when Laura and I wrote our list of who
Speaker 1: we want to speak to in life. We both brought
Speaker 1: the list to each other and we thought some of
Speaker 1: them were like real big shots who were like, we're
Speaker 1: never going to get these people. Rebel was always on
Speaker 1: my list. Fast forward and I met her in real life.
Speaker 1: She's a big tennis fan. Obviously, I was traveling with Jordan.
Speaker 2: We met. We became very very fast friends. She's a really, really.
Speaker 1: Incredible woman, someone that you were I mean, you're gonna
Speaker 1: learn that for yourself very soon. She's a bit of
Speaker 1: an unexpected package. But we did become friends. We do
Speaker 1: hang out now. I have nothing but amazing things to
Speaker 1: say about her. And I know, Laura, you were quite
Speaker 1: surprised when you met Rebel. She's probably not what people.
Speaker 2: Think she is.
Speaker 1: Well, I feel like people would think that she's a
Speaker 1: huge personal and like always like she's very funny, But
Speaker 1: I feel like you would expect that she's a bit
Speaker 1: more on all the time, and I think she's just
Speaker 1: she's so warm, she's so lovely. She's incredibly intelligent, like
Speaker 1: like fiercely smart, and just a really awesome person to
Speaker 1: sit down and have a chat with. But one thing
Speaker 1: that Britt hasn't shared is the fact that she slid
Speaker 1: into her DMS many moons ago. And that is a
Speaker 1: story that Britt finally shares with Rebel. The cool factor
Speaker 1: that Brit has been. You know, Rebel thinks that BRIT's cool.
Speaker 2: I don't think she does.
Speaker 1: It's finally dropped. The facade is finally gone. No, we
Speaker 1: told her in the pod. You'll hear about it in
Speaker 1: a minute. But I mean I slid into Rebel's MS
Speaker 1: before I knew her, trying to get her on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and then when I met her, I was hoping that
Speaker 1: that wasn't a thing. But we're going to get into that.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk too much about it now,
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of things you guys gonna
Speaker 1: learn about Rebel. Some things you may already know, like
Speaker 1: the fact that she's a lawyer and she does a
Speaker 1: lot of humanitarian work. But other things you might not know,
Speaker 1: like she was just included in the BBC one hundred
Speaker 1: Women for twenty twenty one, so that was just in December,
Speaker 1: along so many inspirational But it's really to celebrating women
Speaker 1: doing amazing things for the world, amazing things in their career,
Speaker 1: and we're all about celebrating women.
Speaker 2: So let's get into the chat with Rebel.
Speaker 1: Well, there is someone you guys have been requesting to
Speaker 1: come on this podcast for a very very long time.
Speaker 2: And there is somebody I haven't even introduced.
Speaker 3: Ye okay, all right, shut up until.
Speaker 1: Someone that I have been trying to get on this
Speaker 1: podcast for long then you know, or actually I did
Speaker 1: tell you about it.
Speaker 2: But I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: To finally welcome the one and only a Rebel Wilson
Speaker 1: to life.
Speaker 3: I'm popular, Hi, Britt, Hi Laura. Awesome to be here, ladies, awesome.
Speaker 1: Who are sitting in your house? So thanks for having
Speaker 1: us at your place to record?
Speaker 3: It was more convenient for me. Just you guys rack up. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you brought snacks as well.
Speaker 2: Now look, I just want to kick off. I have
Speaker 2: a question.
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on the spot here. I
Speaker 1: have something I've wanted to know from I have something
Speaker 1: I want to know for a long time stream person.
Speaker 1: Yet you can be so honest, it's not going to
Speaker 1: offend me. All right, I've sat on this rebel.
Speaker 2: For two years?
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 1: Did you know who I was before we met in
Speaker 1: real life?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think I did from Johono who trained me. Okay,
Speaker 3: that right?
Speaker 2: Do you know John why you're telling the story?
Speaker 3: But how long has this podcast been?
Speaker 2: About two and a half years.
Speaker 3: I definitely listened to like one or two of the podcasts.
Speaker 2: I'm loving how Uncomfortable right now Rebels sitting here? Are
Speaker 2: you guys? Okay?
Speaker 3: So, but I never saw your Bachelor, which is weird
Speaker 3: because I do love Bacher and Bacheorette. But I never
Speaker 3: saw your season. You guys were in the same season.
Speaker 1: No, we were in different seasons. I don't like our
Speaker 1: friendship wouldn't be quite as strong if we were competing.
Speaker 2: For the same man.
Speaker 1: No, she won Maddie Jay, they've got kids and engaged,
Speaker 1: and I got Dune by the Hounter Badger.
Speaker 3: I just got They're like literally the two seasons. I
Speaker 3: haven't wat There was something about Johno said something about, yeah,
Speaker 3: this chick wanting to get into acting or something. And
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that is you.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the story, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've told you this, but but
Speaker 1: you have always been whenever I've done interviews after TV,
Speaker 1: whenever anyone's asking me about it, they're like, who's your inspo?
Speaker 2: I was like, Rebel Wilson, I fucking love her. I
Speaker 2: think I'm not just like.
Speaker 3: Kissing your ass.
Speaker 2: It's what I've always said.
Speaker 1: You know, people like why and I'm like, she's so funny,
Speaker 1: she's a great actress.
Speaker 2: She's so smart.
Speaker 3: She's a lawyer.
Speaker 1: You know, she went to Hollywood at thirty. She wasn't
Speaker 1: twenty like everybody else. She really paved her own way. See,
Speaker 1: this is why I love her. And I've been trying
Speaker 1: to get you on the podcast. When Laura and I
Speaker 1: said who do we want to interview, I was like,
Speaker 1: I would love to get reb Wilson. I have slid
Speaker 1: into your DMS. I don't know if you remember, but
Speaker 1: you actually wrote back to me and I yeah, But then.
Speaker 2: Me though, I don't think so, and this is the question.
Speaker 2: I don't think it was you.
Speaker 3: So sometimes my team, I don't really look at the
Speaker 3: dms because I get crazy shit on the DM so
Speaker 3: I don't really look at them. And I also get
Speaker 3: thatut like you can say, I get like a thousands
Speaker 3: a day.
Speaker 1: So before I slid into your I woke up one
Speaker 1: morning to which was the most exciting day of my life.
Speaker 2: I told him about the podcast. I woke up to.
Speaker 1: An Instagram message that said Rebel Wilson started following you,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, obviously it's a Rebel Wilson
Speaker 1: fan account because someone's heard that. You know, I think
Speaker 1: she's a great actress. And I went into it and
Speaker 1: it was you, and I lost my shit. I was like,
Speaker 1: how is my favorite actress following me? I was like,
Speaker 1: we didn't have any mutual friends, we'd never spoken. I
Speaker 1: was beside myself. Yeah, and then I said on the podcast,
Speaker 1: I was like, evidently she's either tried to stalk me
Speaker 1: and it's been a slip of the finger, or I've
Speaker 1: been on the Explore page and she's accidentally press following.
Speaker 1: I was like, anyway, I'm giving this two weeks max
Speaker 1: before I pop back in a fee and she's like,
Speaker 1: who the fuck is that and unfollowing me. The two
Speaker 1: weeks to the day you unfollowed me. The funny thing
Speaker 1: is is that.
Speaker 2: Britt has told this story.
Speaker 1: On the podcast before about how you followed her on Instagram,
Speaker 1: how she slid into your dms, and then everyone who
Speaker 1: listens has been like, Brittany manifested a friendship with Refa
Speaker 1: Wilson through this Instagram the mishap, I was like, there's
Speaker 1: no way she actually cared about me or wants to
Speaker 1: follow me a slip of the thumb, or it's not
Speaker 1: you and someone else's managing your account have done it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I got two weeks.
Speaker 3: That when John I mentioned it that I like went
Speaker 3: on and then.
Speaker 2: Just thought she was boring.
Speaker 3: And then and then you were like, look at all
Speaker 3: these purse strafts and then damn.
Speaker 1: It could be really like I could have it could
Speaker 1: have been me, I think, really, I just thought I
Speaker 1: was there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was one of my teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyway, you gave me two weeks, two weeks of
Speaker 1: happiness before you took it away.
Speaker 3: So isn't that weird that we then ended up meeting.
Speaker 1: Well, then I wrote to you and I said I
Speaker 1: tried to play cool, but I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: like we'd love to have in the podcast. You know,
Speaker 1: I do all these interviews and we've had some great people,
Speaker 1: and then you wrote back, not you, I'm doing you
Speaker 1: in Inverted Commas was obviously like someone on your team.
Speaker 1: The fact that you actually wrote back or even said
Speaker 1: that on the podcast. I was like, look, Rebel did
Speaker 1: get back to me.
Speaker 2: She declined.
Speaker 1: You were like, no, you're a polit You were like, yeah, look,
Speaker 1: that's great, congratulations on your success.
Speaker 2: You were really sweet.
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm really busy at the moment, but I
Speaker 1: would love to one day when my schedule clears. So
Speaker 1: here we are, eighteen months later, professional of your PR team.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, wait, I followed you followed me, and then
Speaker 3: I also mad it how long? Maybe it took me?
Speaker 3: And then I realized maybe, and that's why am I following?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I said. I said, she's going to
Speaker 2: realize soon.
Speaker 1: I'm going to post something. I'm going to come up
Speaker 1: in her feed. Because you only followed like two or
Speaker 1: three hundred people. I was like, she doesn't know she's
Speaker 1: done it. I was like, there's no other reason for.
Speaker 2: Her to have done it. Yeah, and you did.
Speaker 1: You obviously saw a post and you were like, on
Speaker 1: the far I bought mission immediately.
Speaker 3: So for playing with your emotions, Yeah, I'm sorry, Brian.
Speaker 1: I also love that this is the first time you've
Speaker 1: ever said this story, and that you've been holding onto
Speaker 1: this for weeks now.
Speaker 2: Well, I knew the time would come. I knew should
Speaker 2: get on the podcast one day.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm here, I'm here, I'm ready.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm excited for? It's how we
Speaker 1: start every single one of our interviews, not this one.
Speaker 2: Apparently we've got it.
Speaker 1: We had a special treat for you today, a special
Speaker 1: little surprise. We start our episodes the same way. That is,
Speaker 1: asking if you're accidentally unfiltered story, your most embarrassing story
Speaker 1: are you going to share with everyone? And I hear
Speaker 1: you have one that you haven't told before.
Speaker 3: Brit pre warned me about this last night and I go, well,
Speaker 3: I've got a story about shitting myself and she's like, yep, yeah.
Speaker 3: Then I have a sex story that was like quite
Speaker 3: quite embarrassing as well.
Speaker 2: She's like, do you think I should tell who or sex?
Speaker 2: And I'm like, girl both.
Speaker 3: Britt said she wanted both stories, so I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god.
Speaker 1: I'll and he's never before told Well, I might.
Speaker 3: Have told the shitting myself story, but the other one
Speaker 3: definitely not publicly. So I think you might remember when
Speaker 3: we were in Los Angeles with Jordan and we went
Speaker 3: on that hike yep. So that hike is like a
Speaker 3: classic hike that I do in LA. It's in Griffith
Speaker 3: Park and I love ever since I first moved to Hollywood.
Speaker 3: I love it because you can see the Hollywood Sign
Speaker 3: and I think the Hollywood sign rings me luck give
Speaker 3: it a little kiss, so when I see it, I'm
Speaker 3: like yes. And anyway, so one day, anyone who's like
Speaker 3: an emotional eater might or had struggles with food or whatever,
Speaker 3: might you know understand this story. But I was like
Speaker 3: having a bit of a down day. I ordered like
Speaker 3: a whole pizza for lunch my sad one bedroom apartment,
Speaker 3: and just like ate the whole pizza and I feel
Speaker 3: like I had like a thing of two liter and
Speaker 3: pepsi or something like that as well, and just like
Speaker 3: downed it. And then I started feeling like even more
Speaker 3: sad and a bit depressed because I was like, why
Speaker 3: did I just go and eat all of that? So
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna fix this I'm
Speaker 3: going to go out for a walk. So I go
Speaker 3: on the hunk and you know, it's hiking up hill
Speaker 3: and feeling like I was feeling very sluggish after eating.
Speaker 3: I mean that would have been probably thousands of calories.
Speaker 3: And then I was like, yeah, okay, but I'm burning
Speaker 3: it off now so slowly. And then I start coming
Speaker 3: down the hill and there's kind of houses between my
Speaker 3: house and the park, and then I like just get
Speaker 3: this instant feeling like I've got to go to the toilet,
Speaker 3: like I can't make it the few streets back.
Speaker 2: To my place or when it hits you, it hits you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and me, and I was like it was all
Speaker 3: inside and it just had to come out. And I
Speaker 3: was like, but okay, I'm fairal like I'm just in
Speaker 3: like leggings, like I don't look nice. I don't have
Speaker 3: any makeup on or whatever. Like I'd been in the
Speaker 3: movie Bridesmaid, so I was kind of recognized, like not
Speaker 3: a superstar or anything, but I was kind of recognizable.
Speaker 3: So I was like, oh geez. And then I was
Speaker 3: like then I was like, so I'm like in the
Speaker 3: residential street, there's house on both sides, and I'm like Okay,
Speaker 3: I got it. I gotta like go, like should I
Speaker 3: just ask somebody? And then I was like I can't.
Speaker 3: What am I gonna do? Just knock on their door
Speaker 3: and say, can I use your What do you do?
Speaker 3: What do you do? It was too far to walk.
Speaker 3: I knew there was a toilet at the park, it
Speaker 3: was too far to walk back. Like, I wouldn't have
Speaker 3: made that either, and then I wouldn't definitely wouldn't have
Speaker 3: made my house. Like I was trying to hold it in.
Speaker 3: I couldn't. So I'm like, I'm just gonna have to
Speaker 3: go in somebody's front yard.
Speaker 2: No, and then I was like I just have to.
Speaker 3: And then I saw this house and then and then
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm just gonna do it. But there wasn't
Speaker 3: any coverage. It wasn't like there were shrubs and bushes
Speaker 3: so you could hide behind just on the lawn.
Speaker 2: Like a dog. Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3: So there was kind of a bush, but it went
Speaker 3: to the side, so I didn't really provide much coverage.
Speaker 3: So I just went near that and I just had to.
Speaker 3: Like I literally had about thirty seconds logistically.
Speaker 1: Speaking, how far off the road are we We're talking
Speaker 1: like two meters off the footpath was a deep property.
Speaker 3: It had a nice front garden, but I was probably
Speaker 3: four meters from like, you know, it was very grass,
Speaker 3: you know, it was a grassy, nice, nicely mode grass.
Speaker 3: And I was like, this is the one. I got it.
Speaker 3: I could only make a radius of a few houses,
Speaker 3: like and I was like, Okay, that's the one. But
Speaker 3: there was no coverage, like there was no tree or
Speaker 3: something I could go behind, Like, it just wasn't like
Speaker 3: that on that street. If it was running down your
Speaker 3: leg or something like that be bad, that be really bad.
Speaker 3: So anyway, I squat in the person's front yard and
Speaker 3: then you know, I'm just kind of frozen, and I'm
Speaker 3: just going, what if somebody sees this?
Speaker 2: Like what if what if you were papped at the end?
Speaker 3: I know because I often get papped there and so
Speaker 3: like going on the hike. But then a car.
Speaker 2: Pulls in the driveway. Yeah, no, I see.
Speaker 3: It was like it was on the curb. In the curb,
Speaker 3: so not in the driveway. The driver's right there. But
Speaker 3: so it must have been a visitor to the house.
Speaker 3: And then I'm like, they're gonna see me if they
Speaker 3: get out of that car. They're gonna see me, so
Speaker 3: my mind because I'm still squatting on the front lawn
Speaker 3: like yeah, like it's so disgusting, like I can't even
Speaker 3: my mind goes. If they come and say something, I'm
Speaker 3: just gonna scream I'm pregnant. I'm pregnant. I don't know
Speaker 3: why that was my thing. Why do you have to
Speaker 3: scream it at This is just what I was like
Speaker 3: gonna say because you've got to say something. And then
Speaker 3: the man gets out and I'm like if he walks
Speaker 3: in to the house like he's you cannot miss me,
Speaker 3: like you can't, but I'm frozen. And then he walked
Speaker 3: to the other house and he didn't see me. So
Speaker 3: I just pulled up my pants and then I left.
Speaker 1: Imagine if they had like a video cam or something
Speaker 1: to check back and there's Rebel Wilson doing a pool
Speaker 1: in the front yard.
Speaker 3: No, but I wasn't like it's super super fain like
Speaker 3: I'd done Bridesmaids, which was a big hit, but I
Speaker 3: wasn't like I don't think my name faced recognition as
Speaker 3: we call it in the business, was that strong at
Speaker 3: that point. But do you know how I was like,
Speaker 3: that is like my worst nightmare.
Speaker 1: Don't remember the articles that used to come out about
Speaker 1: the poo jogger in Sydney. There was someone who was
Speaker 1: doing it every morning outside of Boxy.
Speaker 2: Just sentos us. They became known as the poo jogger.
Speaker 3: They would just go to the toilet in people's front yard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was going for a run every morning and
Speaker 1: purposely doing a pool in the front yard of people's houses.
Speaker 3: It was not, I swear to god it wasn't. But
Speaker 3: if anyone is listening, and maybe they owned a house
Speaker 3: and lost feelers and was very confused by what had happened,
Speaker 3: and now they understand, just know, I'm very very sorry,
Speaker 3: and it won't happen again. And I hope that those
Speaker 3: nutrients went into the ground and.
Speaker 1: Maybe that beautiful little shrub that we were squad of
Speaker 1: heind is now a big flourishing tree.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's good from I'll call it the
Speaker 2: rebel bush. Yes, anyway, I love that story.
Speaker 3: Embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do want to know your sex story.
Speaker 3: So that one wasn't enough of embarrassment.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know how you could have a worse one.
Speaker 1: But I'm really happy that you.
Speaker 3: Do okay with this one. Well, I can't place the
Speaker 3: because I don't want people to know who it was
Speaker 3: with very handsome X. Very handsome. Well, that's all i'm
Speaker 3: gonna say. Shut up, shut up, or I won't say it.
Speaker 3: So it was a very handsome X. And I was, yeah,
Speaker 3: what do I say, Like I was giving a blowjob.
Speaker 3: It was the situation. Everyone was having a great time.
Speaker 3: I finish, and I came up to like give a
Speaker 3: kiss on the mount, you know, get somewhere. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: as I was coming up, he accidentally elbowed me in
Speaker 3: the eye, like right in the eye. And the shock
Speaker 3: of it because it was just it was just a
Speaker 3: freak accident, like he obviously didn't didn't mean to do it.
Speaker 3: He was in so much.
Speaker 2: Joy he loved the blow drop side.
Speaker 3: He didn't realize and it was just the weird angle
Speaker 3: of the elbow connected as I was coming up, and
Speaker 3: then it was actually very painful. So I started crying.
Speaker 3: So I just curled up and started crying because there
Speaker 3: was something about giving someone pleasure or whatever and then
Speaker 3: being hit in the face.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, that I was something about.
Speaker 3: There was something about it that just like I really
Speaker 3: upset me. And then I was crying, and it was
Speaker 3: just the shock of it as well, and then he
Speaker 3: didn't know what to do. And then I was horrified
Speaker 3: that he then told his mother story later that night.
Speaker 3: I don't know why you would tell your mother that story,
Speaker 3: but he did.
Speaker 2: So you were together, and he sat down with his
Speaker 2: mom in front of you and me.
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't in front of me. I just found
Speaker 3: that out later. Wow. I kind of sent him home
Speaker 3: after that.
Speaker 2: After giving him a blow him being stacked in the fain.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was obviously an accident, but I was
Speaker 3: just upset and I started crying. And I didn't mean
Speaker 3: to start crying, Like I know it was an accident,
Speaker 3: but I was just crying, like like, what's.
Speaker 2: The point of telling the mother?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I was not when I was
Speaker 3: invited to family Christmas, I was not going to go because.
Speaker 1: Of that reason, because she knew that she knew about
Speaker 1: that had given the son a blowjob.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think it was though, because like maybe he
Speaker 1: didn't know if his reaction was the right reaction, Like.
Speaker 2: Maybe he didn't come in the right way.
Speaker 1: Yea. And so you were obviously upset. So then he
Speaker 1: was like, Mum, what do I do here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I think he initially laughed writing oh there
Speaker 3: was this line because he didn't realize but it was
Speaker 3: so it was just a straight sharp elbow connect right
Speaker 3: to my eye. So I was like it was painful.
Speaker 2: Like not okay, yeah, sexual experience, yeah.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't tell us a little bit about who
Speaker 1: you were before you are the.
Speaker 2: Rebel, changing completely changing the subject.
Speaker 1: Just for you, Laura, I want to know a little
Speaker 1: bit about your childhood, where you grew up and what was.
Speaker 2: School like for you.
Speaker 3: Well, I actually loved school, but I grew up in
Speaker 3: Sydney's like Western suburbs. I went to school Castle Hill
Speaker 3: Primary School with now one of the richest men in
Speaker 3: Australia was in my class. There was Scott Farqua who
Speaker 3: he was one of the founders of at lassin isn't
Speaker 3: he shrekyone law fark? Why no, no no? And he
Speaker 3: was the kid that him and I I was very
Speaker 3: good at maths as a child and he was obviously
Speaker 3: a genius as well. And then we would always compete
Speaker 3: in maths and I think in year six I think
Speaker 3: he got he got first or second in the great
Speaker 3: I got third, and then I was like I knew
Speaker 3: that kid was gonna do it was great, and then
Speaker 3: he did anyway, So I went to Castle Hill Primary
Speaker 3: School and there was something in the water, like so
Speaker 3: many talented kids and stuff have come out of that.
Speaker 3: It was just like a regular public school. And then
Speaker 3: then I went to an all girls Christian high school
Speaker 3: called Tara, which people might know in Paramatta. And then
Speaker 3: my high school, I was like the dorkiest girl at
Speaker 3: the start. I was in the cool group for like
Speaker 3: two weeks, then get kicked out because I didn't I
Speaker 3: refuse to smoke behind the gym. I was like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm not a smoke I'm not doing it. And then
Speaker 3: I get kicked out of the cool group. And then
Speaker 3: I was like a Nigel for like almost two years
Speaker 3: after that because all the other groups had formed in
Speaker 3: high school, so I didn't have a group. So I
Speaker 3: would just sit in the library by myself and stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh no friends, yeah, I know, just because I didn't
Speaker 3: fall for the peer pressure, and then I lost out
Speaker 3: looking out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But so then I was like, oh, screw this, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna become popular, and then did and like atally it
Speaker 3: became popular, and then I loved school. So much that
Speaker 3: I ended up being a border at school because I
Speaker 3: was just really into everything at the school, and we
Speaker 3: did plays and musicals and we did lots of sports
Speaker 3: and everything, and I was just so into it. So
Speaker 3: of my friends bought it as well, and so boarding
Speaker 3: school can be crap for some people, but I actually
Speaker 3: really loved it.
Speaker 2: So you would describe yourself as a nerd.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nerd in that I was very academic and you know,
Speaker 3: smart and yeah and weirdly like good at maths and stuff,
Speaker 3: which a lot of the other kids hated, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you just get one hundred percent. I'm like, oh, it's easy,
Speaker 3: like it was now you want to be my friend? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but no. But like all my friends at Tara were
Speaker 3: very the same, like smart but good girls, very ambitious,
Speaker 3: Like one of my besties is now a lawyer in Manhattan.
Speaker 3: The other one lived in Paris for many years, like
Speaker 3: crushing and in business and got an MBA. And we
Speaker 3: all was just ambitious young ladies who got taught that
Speaker 3: we could do anything with our lives and like went
Speaker 3: out there. So it was kind of cool to be
Speaker 3: like that by the end of high school. Not certainly
Speaker 3: not in the beginning but it became cool to be
Speaker 3: like the smart, successful girls. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And were you always into drama and arts at school
Speaker 1: or did that come later?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I never did it as a subject. But
Speaker 3: with the Kings boys next door, we did plays and musicals,
Speaker 3: and that to me was like probably like the highlight.
Speaker 3: And I never thought I would be a professional actor
Speaker 3: or anything, but I loved it, Like I loved what
Speaker 3: we did at the school, and they were kind of
Speaker 3: we had There was a multimillion dollar theater at that boys' school,
Speaker 3: and we just had an awesome time putting on their productions.
Speaker 3: And that's why I didn't finish at night like until
Speaker 3: like eleven pm to after the show or whatever. So
Speaker 3: that's why I lived at the school eventually, because I
Speaker 3: was just doing so much there.
Speaker 1: But also, I mean, everyone knows you for acting, and
Speaker 1: when you say you're ambitious and so academic at school, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well a lot of people probably don't know is that
Speaker 1: you also went on to study You did a law degree,
Speaker 1: Like there's so many more facets to your life before
Speaker 1: you actually got into being a full time actor as
Speaker 1: your career.
Speaker 3: Well, I never thought I always thought I would go
Speaker 3: into law and politics. Great just so you know, telling
Speaker 3: all my embarrassing story, bring that up if I ever run, Yeah,
Speaker 3: my story.
Speaker 1: People talking about you come into local politics and they're like.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, Rebel Wilson did shit in someone's yard.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll come up. But don't worry, guys. You can't
Speaker 3: blackmail me with it because I've been very open about
Speaker 3: it and explained the whole situation. So I always thought
Speaker 3: I would go into Laura politics. I got into like
Speaker 3: the best law school after I got my hsc results
Speaker 3: and was like yep, and then I was selected. I
Speaker 3: was a youth Ambassador for Australia, which was a program
Speaker 3: that Rodari was running at the time, and they sent
Speaker 3: one boy and one girl to different countries and I
Speaker 3: got sent to South Africa and had like a life
Speaker 3: changing experience going to Southern Africa for a year and
Speaker 3: not knowing anybody, and it was crazy. Then I got
Speaker 3: the malaria there, which was really bad.
Speaker 2: You got malaria.
Speaker 3: Had a vision that I was an actress.
Speaker 2: Hang on, you were speeding through this story. I know, well,
Speaker 2: there's home. So you're in Africa. Yeah for a year, Yes,
Speaker 2: you get malaria.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was terrible. I got a really bad strain,
Speaker 3: so I was hospitalized. I caught it in Reural, Mozambique,
Speaker 3: but it takes about two weeks to develop in your system.
Speaker 3: And then I was very, very sick, got hospitalized with
Speaker 3: another girl that was on the trip as well, and
Speaker 3: then it was bad. It was like this, it's hard
Speaker 3: to describe it. It's not like a cold or flu.
Speaker 3: It's like you out of your body kind of thing
Speaker 3: and you're like hallucinating and everything. And then I was like,
Speaker 3: I had this vision that I won an Academy award,
Speaker 3: that I was an actress. And then I was really
Speaker 3: good and I came out of hospital saying, guys, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna I think I've got to leave Africa, like immediately
Speaker 3: go back to Australia. I got an audition for the
Speaker 3: Drama School. I'm gonna be like the next Dame Judy
Speaker 3: Dench or something. So you're like rebeling, No, like you're
Speaker 3: not an actress likeause.
Speaker 2: I definitely didn't.
Speaker 3: I wasn't glamorous like I was, you know, an academic
Speaker 3: girl like I wasn't glamois. I didn't look like Nicole
Speaker 3: Kidman or Kate Blanchette or something.
Speaker 1: So your catalyst for getting into acting. Your catalyst, that
Speaker 1: was the driving force for you to go cool, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take this and pivot my career seriously.
Speaker 2: Was malaria?
Speaker 3: Yeah wow, because sometimes they say if you get really sick,
Speaker 3: if you have a life changing event like that, it
Speaker 3: can really change the course of your life. And I
Speaker 3: used to love Oprah Well, I mean, obviously I still
Speaker 3: love Opra. I shouldn't s I used to all the time.
Speaker 3: And I used to watch her every day in Africa
Speaker 3: because it was really hard. There was a lot going
Speaker 3: on in South Africa at the time and post apartheid
Speaker 3: and a lot of violence and everything, and there's a
Speaker 3: lot going on. And so I would watch Oprah every day,
Speaker 3: love it. And she'd say, oh, the universe like sometimes
Speaker 3: it gives you a whisper, and sometimes it's like a
Speaker 3: full blown rick wall falling on you with the message.
Speaker 3: And I was like, this is a message, like this
Speaker 3: is like this is what I should do with my life.
Speaker 3: So even though I was still in law school, I
Speaker 3: went back and I auditioned for drama, Like, no one
Speaker 3: would take me at the drama schools.
Speaker 2: Who'd you audition for nighter?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Maybe that firsty only just night, because I thought, well,
Speaker 3: at the chart, but yeah, just go to the best one.
Speaker 3: And because my law school was across the road, I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe I'll do both. I am such an overachiever. Then yeah,
Speaker 3: they didn't accept me, so I just did. I did
Speaker 3: law and arts. So I did dinner and film subjects
Speaker 3: at my university at UNSW.
Speaker 1: And so did you give up trying to get into
Speaker 1: an acting school?
Speaker 2: Because not? It rejected no.
Speaker 3: Audition like four times, four years in or like a row.
Speaker 2: Can you own the audition once a year?
Speaker 3: Yes, there's only for the big drama schools.
Speaker 2: Once in audition and it was no for four years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I remember circling back to eating whole
Speaker 3: pizzas why. I have vivid memories each time after being
Speaker 3: rejected and told no, I went to the Pizza Hut
Speaker 3: or you can eat in the city and Short Street
Speaker 3: just smash the all you can eat buffet, And I
Speaker 3: remember vividly why I did that four years in a row.
Speaker 3: That was my go to And I guess because I
Speaker 3: lived out West I was like, well, if I'm in
Speaker 3: the city anyway, I'm going to go to the pizza
Speaker 3: hut you can eat and treat myself Eat my sorrows. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's so interesting though, because like for so
Speaker 1: many people when you did write Mates, that was like,
Speaker 1: I mean know, you say, you weren't a household name
Speaker 1: and maybe not that easily recognizable, but I think you were.
Speaker 1: You were.
Speaker 2: I think you really were, And that was.
Speaker 1: The movie that kind of put you on the map
Speaker 1: for a lot of people in the outset. Even for me,
Speaker 1: I would have thought that there was like a real
Speaker 1: overnight success in you becoming this well known actor. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't an overnight success. There's so many years that
Speaker 1: go into this.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think what a lot of people don't realize
Speaker 3: is the perception is sometimes that it's some overnight success,
Speaker 3: but the reality is, like every day of my adult life,
Speaker 3: I've worked hard to achieve this goal and like sacrificed
Speaker 3: a lot, which I think a lot of people don't realize.
Speaker 3: And I guess I started whilst I was also going
Speaker 3: to university, going to the Austraith theater for young people,
Speaker 3: and so I started in theater realized quite quickly like
Speaker 3: I wasn't the mold of successful actresses and I had
Speaker 3: to kind of create my own and so the way
Speaker 3: I did that was by writing my own plays and
Speaker 3: then putting them on and also casting myself obviously, but
Speaker 3: using my business brain and stuff to produce them and
Speaker 3: some other really talented young people. And I put on
Speaker 3: these plays and I was lucky. Like the very first
Speaker 3: play I wrote was just called The Westy Monologues, which
Speaker 3: is basically like monologues of girls in Sydney's western suburbs
Speaker 3: and then they all kind of interconnect by the end
Speaker 3: was a huge hit and it was on at the
Speaker 3: Bondai Pavilion, then it was on at Belvoir and then
Speaker 3: at Paramatta Riverside Theater that without one year, and Channel
Speaker 3: seven invested in it and gave me like lots of
Speaker 3: money at the time, I think it was not ninety
Speaker 3: thousand dollars to put it on professionally. And it showed me, Wow,
Speaker 3: if I put my own initiative and just be myself,
Speaker 3: be my unique version of myself. And one of my
Speaker 3: characters was a bit like Tulla, my character on Fat
Speaker 3: Pizza that I became kind of known for in Australia.
Speaker 3: And yeah, one of the characters was kind of morphed
Speaker 3: into Tulla a bit, and like yeah, and so it
Speaker 3: was kind of like me taking my own initiative. But
Speaker 3: the theater days, like if anyone who does theater in
Speaker 3: Sydney knows, like you're not in it for the money,
Speaker 3: You're in it for the love and the love of performing,
Speaker 3: and you're doing the stage craft and everything. And like
Speaker 3: sometimes I was performing in Sydney theaters and some notes
Speaker 3: there was less audience in the theater than was in
Speaker 3: the cast. Wow, And that's when you cancel. Have to
Speaker 3: cancel the performance, they're the rules. If there's less audience
Speaker 3: than cast members, you cancel. And that's happened to me
Speaker 3: several times. But I look back so fondly on those
Speaker 3: days because I wasn't professional then and I was just
Speaker 3: yah building up my career and my resume. And then
Speaker 3: how I got into television was at Pizza. Director Paul
Speaker 3: Fenix saw me in the play and that i'd written
Speaker 3: and gave me a job and it was awesome. And
Speaker 3: then from that show I got a lot of improv
Speaker 3: experience and on camera experience and then I just segued
Speaker 3: into doing things. But it always led from me taking
Speaker 3: my own initiative and writing and performing. Yeah, so I
Speaker 3: did all the hard yards like my first TV job
Speaker 3: was SBS, and like working my way up to more
Speaker 3: commercial television, and then eventually I knew, oh, I want
Speaker 3: to go to Hollywood. If I can make it in
Speaker 3: one Hollywood movie, that'd be pretty sweet. And then it
Speaker 3: all went from there.
Speaker 2: So you really had to create a space for yourself.
Speaker 2: That's what you had to do.
Speaker 3: Because I wasn't in any mold. I was like, you know,
Speaker 3: I was kind of feral looking. I think I had
Speaker 3: a snaggletude, like no joke been shaved down now, but yeah,
Speaker 3: it's real feral. I would have loved to have been
Speaker 3: famous at like twenty one, Like I would have loved
Speaker 3: that and to be recognized, but I just wasn't. It
Speaker 3: just took a long time, and it wasn't until I
Speaker 3: was about thirty two that I became like an international,
Speaker 3: internationally known actress pretty much, which is a bit late,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just hope it's not too late for me.
Speaker 3: How It's never too late, because I feel like if
Speaker 3: I never had that malaria induced hallucination, I probably would
Speaker 3: have been a lawyer and been great at it, and
Speaker 3: then maybe at about forty would have had some kind
Speaker 3: of midlife crisis and said I'm going to go into
Speaker 3: stand up comedy like a Rosean Bar or something like
Speaker 3: that would have been my route. I think I still
Speaker 3: would have probably found my way into it. I just yeah,
Speaker 3: the hallucination sped it up for me. I think.
Speaker 1: So you're already acting in Australia and you are forging
Speaker 1: forging career.
Speaker 2: Here and creating your own roles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would cast me Laura. Like I went into
Speaker 3: the agency and I was like, oh, you don't want
Speaker 3: to get an agent because all my friends did at
Speaker 3: the time. And they're like, well, we could never see
Speaker 3: you on Home and Away and I'm like, well, because
Speaker 3: they're the only roles I didn't want to be on
Speaker 3: Home and Away, Like yeah, I mean I love Home
Speaker 3: and Away. Like god, amazing people have come out of
Speaker 3: that show. But like, that wasn't me. I wasn't a
Speaker 3: beach babe, Like I just wasn't that.
Speaker 2: You didn't want to go do your bay Watch?
Speaker 3: Then no, I didn't because that would have been no
Speaker 3: one would have wanted to watch that.
Speaker 1: But also, yeah, with hitting these roadblocks in Australia, you're
Speaker 1: coming up to knows all the time, what then makes
Speaker 1: you go all right, Well, fuck this small pond, I'm
Speaker 1: going to go to Hollywood. Like what gives you the
Speaker 1: confidence to say I'm going to go and try.
Speaker 2: It over there, which is a hell of a lot
Speaker 2: more competitive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I had done thirteen TV shows in
Speaker 3: Australia by that point, and I'd gotten a big contract
Speaker 3: on Channel seven for like a three year job, a
Speaker 3: great show. And I was like, is this going to
Speaker 3: be my life? Or am I gonna at all? Wanted
Speaker 3: to be in Hollywood movies? And I was like, or
Speaker 3: is now my chance? And so I rejected the big
Speaker 3: time Channel seven contract and left and sold every single
Speaker 3: thing I had, my apartment in Melbourne, my car, my computer,
Speaker 3: Like I had to sell everything because you need a
Speaker 3: lot of money to go over and you know you're
Speaker 3: not going to be able to work much and you
Speaker 3: don't earn much when you're first in Hollywood. So I
Speaker 3: like sold every single thing I had, even my toast,
Speaker 3: like I autographed it or something. Got twenty bucks. Everything
Speaker 3: went everything whent my mom came to help me. We
Speaker 3: sold everything on eBay and in one weekend everybody just
Speaker 3: came to my apartment and because I was kind of
Speaker 3: a bit known, from Australian TV show, So I guess
Speaker 3: my stuff was worth something. And then I sold every
Speaker 3: single thing. I was like, yeah, I'm not coming back.
Speaker 1: Well known enough, but not well known enough or not
Speaker 1: big enough here to obviously have an excessive amount of cash,
Speaker 1: beer cash to go to Hollywood.
Speaker 3: No, no, you need you. It's like you're a sieve.
Speaker 3: What's that thing A see where you deceive money? You
Speaker 3: know that thing that you put flower in your Yeah, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: you like that. It just needs money. It just falls
Speaker 3: through because you just need money for everything and you can't.
Speaker 3: You're not really earning money, so the money just like
Speaker 3: drains from your account.
Speaker 1: And you don't know when you're going to get your
Speaker 1: first role over there as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was very lucky.
Speaker 1: Bridesmaids came like three months when you took on Bridesmaids,
Speaker 1: did you know at the time how hugely successful it
Speaker 1: was going to be?
Speaker 3: I hope. The problem is the cast was so so amazing,
Speaker 3: and I had four scenes in the movie, and I
Speaker 3: was like, is four scenes enough? And I remember Jonah
Speaker 3: Hill had one scene I believe in forty year Old
Speaker 3: Virgin and like and then skyrocketed from that and I
Speaker 3: was like, I knew, I had a feeling I was
Speaker 3: gonna make a little splash, but like I was like,
Speaker 3: is it enough, because it's I wasn't. I auditioned for
Speaker 3: the Melissa McCarthy roll and didn't get that was second
Speaker 3: place in that so they added me into the film.
Speaker 3: But I didn't really have a big role because it
Speaker 3: just added in, and so I was like, is that enough?
Speaker 3: But I thought, yes, it will be. And then I
Speaker 3: had to wait essentially a year until that movie came
Speaker 3: out long ast year. It takes about a year from
Speaker 3: when you film it to come out. And I had
Speaker 3: no money. I was living on sixty dollars a week
Speaker 3: for my just for my food and entertainment, which I'd
Speaker 3: see one movie a week at the cinemas and then
Speaker 3: I would use the rest on food because that's all
Speaker 3: I had budgeted for because it was a pretty Yeah,
Speaker 3: I earned thirty five hundred dollars on Bridesmaids, and that
Speaker 3: was what I had to pay to the Union so
Speaker 3: to join the Union in America, So I earned nothing.
Speaker 2: That's what it made from that movie. I think there'll
Speaker 2: be so many people that shook to the core to.
Speaker 1: Hear three thousand, five hundred dollars for that movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I am shocked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it. But that was the platform,
Speaker 1: that was the that was the kickstart. And then next
Speaker 1: up was Pitch Perfect, and well, Pitch Pervy.
Speaker 3: Was one of the movies I booked off the back
Speaker 3: of Bride's and I booked six movies off the back.
Speaker 2: Of that, Off that one too, of those little scenes
Speaker 2: two weeks and then your iconic role is fat Amy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: do you know? I bought it on DVD.
Speaker 1: It was like my favorite movie and I used to watch.
Speaker 2: It on DVD at home all the time.
Speaker 3: Taste, I do have critics. I mean, they're the most
Speaker 3: successful musical comedy films of all time. They beat School
Speaker 3: of Rock, and I forget what the other reigning champion
Speaker 3: was before we came along.
Speaker 2: Who cares because they're not up there anymore. Pitch Perfect,
Speaker 2: Get off? But what was it like?
Speaker 1: What was that process like filming Pitch Perfect? What was
Speaker 1: it like being in such a huge film where not
Speaker 1: only was it so hugely watched, but like your you
Speaker 1: were well and truly recognized by that point in time.
Speaker 3: It was awesome. It was I think I was telling
Speaker 3: you Britt this yesterday when we're playing tennis. But I
Speaker 3: had auditioned as an American for Pitch Perfect, and then
Speaker 3: I was really tired in dance rehearsals for me. We
Speaker 3: practiced the routines and then the director had heard me
Speaker 3: talking with my real Australian accent, and then he's like,
Speaker 3: you have to do that in the movie, and I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm an actress. I have prepared this American character called
Speaker 3: fat Amy, and I'd already sung, recorded all my vocals
Speaker 3: in American accent and everything. And he's like, no, I
Speaker 3: have a feeling like you're gonna be Australian in it,
Speaker 3: and I go no, because I just I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to be an actress and play someone
Speaker 3: a bit different to who I was. And then he's like, nah,
Speaker 3: you're gonna be more distinctive, and he was totally right,
Speaker 3: and then I kind of really stood out fat Amy
Speaker 3: was only the seventh or eighth biggest character in the script,
Speaker 3: and then she kind of, you know, I kind of
Speaker 3: embellished the role quite a bit and then got more
Speaker 3: screen time. It wouldn't have.
Speaker 1: Been the same if fat Amy was American. I don't
Speaker 1: feel like as a viewer it would have had the
Speaker 1: same effect. And I think what you just said and
Speaker 1: the director said, you wouldn't have stood out as much
Speaker 1: because especially at that time, Australians weren't really allowed to
Speaker 1: acting with their native.
Speaker 3: I was right on the cusp of well, they call
Speaker 3: it now the Game of Thrones effect, where American audiences
Speaker 3: are much more used to hearing foreign accents, but that
Speaker 3: certainly wasn't the case when I moved over there. And yeah,
Speaker 3: in Bridesmaids, I've done it like a British accent to
Speaker 3: fit in with my buddy Matt Lucas. But like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it was kind of very fortuitous because getting to kind
Speaker 3: of almost be myself about a like it's obviously a character,
Speaker 3: but you know, and you push things for comic effect.
Speaker 3: But it was like it was just the best fun.
Speaker 3: And those girls, like we have a group text that
Speaker 3: we almost on a daily basis. There's things going on
Speaker 3: in the group text about how much we love each other.
Speaker 3: The Bellas how much? Yeah, how much I can show you.
Speaker 3: I can show you some of it. Let me get
Speaker 3: it out. Yeah, it's called Bella's Oh my. This is
Speaker 3: from yesterday because Brittany was sending like out little cute
Speaker 3: videos of us. We send like each other little videos
Speaker 3: of our sunset and stuff.
Speaker 2: That's so that's years down the track.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is just yesterday. We're talking about we're
Speaker 3: going to do something for Gallon Time's Day next year.
Speaker 3: We're already organizing just spread love to each other. We
Speaker 3: all like it's such good friends. And we're so different,
Speaker 3: like the Ten of Us girls and the Bellas are
Speaker 3: so different, but there's something about when we come together
Speaker 3: and we just have the best time and we do
Speaker 3: group Rinians all the time, like you know, we're so busy,
Speaker 3: but your go all times of yeah, friendship goals, yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: and we hit up the tech like almost every day.
Speaker 3: There's some there's some Bella's text about something.
Speaker 1: Isn't it pretty amazing though that Like I think that
Speaker 1: authenticity is what shows on screen as well, like as
Speaker 1: much as obviously like everyone can play them.
Speaker 3: Having fun on an offset like I mean pitchev One.
Speaker 3: I mean I was the more studious because I remember
Speaker 3: I was writing a pilot at the same time, which
Speaker 3: then became my show on American TV called Super Fun Night.
Speaker 3: So I was the more studious one, and then Esther Dean,
Speaker 3: who's the African American Bella. She is a huge songwriter
Speaker 3: so has written massive hits for Nicki Minaj Rihana Beyoncet,
Speaker 3: like she's just Katie, but she wrote Katy Perry fireworks.
Speaker 3: Half of the songs. We sing him hitch perfect to
Speaker 3: her songs. So we were the more studious ones. But God,
Speaker 3: the other ones partied so hard.
Speaker 2: Are they gonna hate that you're out in there this podcast?
Speaker 3: No, because they just like to have a good time
Speaker 3: and whatever. And we were all quite young then. I
Speaker 3: mean by the third one, I wasn't. I definitely wasn't
Speaker 3: going out that many nights. We were working hard, but
Speaker 3: like God, when we were young, and then I remember
Speaker 3: Adam Devine who plays a bumper, Like God, he'd get
Speaker 3: into it every night. I was like, guys like that.
Speaker 3: We definitely just had so much fun, whether it was
Speaker 3: weird went tailgating with the football or something, or going
Speaker 3: to dance clubs and just dancing it up, and we
Speaker 3: just had a ball. Like on those movies.
Speaker 1: Do you have a moment when you're doing a film
Speaker 1: like this where you're like, holy shit, I've made it,
Speaker 1: Like this is I have fucking made it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was I didn't know Pitch Peviect was going
Speaker 3: to be like a as big as it ended up being.
Speaker 3: But I just knew this is the type of movie
Speaker 3: I want to watch, So I knew that for sure,
Speaker 3: and so I knew, like i'd hoped it would be good,
Speaker 3: but you never know if it's gonna be gonna be
Speaker 3: like that massive. But I'm so glad it was like,
Speaker 3: they're they're the best movie, and obviously we want to
Speaker 3: make more, but that's that decision is not in our
Speaker 3: hands unfortunately.
Speaker 1: So was there an actual moment in your career where
Speaker 1: you realized was that what you were being followed by
Speaker 1: paparazzi were people recognized?
Speaker 3: So it was a day Pitch Perfect one came out
Speaker 3: and I was living with Matt Lucas in la and
Speaker 3: at his awesome house.
Speaker 2: He just gave you a place to stay.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we played roommates in Bridesmaids and then we
Speaker 3: became roommates in real life. Like it was really funny.
Speaker 3: It would freak people out who'd seen the movie and
Speaker 3: they're like, oh my god, you guys are actually roommates,
Speaker 3: and we're like yeah, yeah. Yeah. So basically I went
Speaker 3: from being able to go to the shops and stuff
Speaker 3: being pretty much unrecognizable, like being able to shit in
Speaker 3: people's front lawns and get away with it, to then
Speaker 3: Pitch Perfect comes out instant like paparazzi out the front
Speaker 3: of the house, Like couldn't go anywhere, could no longer
Speaker 3: like go in your sweats to the supermarket, or couldn't
Speaker 3: really go to shopping malls. At that point, it was crazy.
Speaker 3: And then I just when in the bathtob and I
Speaker 3: was like, my life has changed forever now goose Because
Speaker 3: I never I didn't want to be famous, like I
Speaker 3: wanted to be recognized, I guess, but I didn't really
Speaker 3: that was never the goal to become famous. I guess.
Speaker 3: You just wanted to be respected and like recognized and
Speaker 3: stuff for what you do. And then when it happens,
Speaker 3: you're almost like, oh, can I take it back, like
Speaker 3: or could I go back to how life was before?
Speaker 3: Because it's full on when it does happen to you.
Speaker 3: And that's why I feel for any of the younger
Speaker 3: kids who have it happened to them when they're like
Speaker 3: sixteen seventeen, like the young pop stars or the young actors.
Speaker 3: I just it's very because I was like thirty one,
Speaker 3: thirty two and it was full on and I was
Speaker 3: in the bathtub kind of crying, but only for about
Speaker 3: thirty minutes because I was like, my life has changed
Speaker 3: now and I can't I can't go places and certain things.
Speaker 3: But it was also, I mean, it was awesome to
Speaker 3: be in such a huge hit as well. So the
Speaker 3: positive is far outweigh the negatives, I think. But that
Speaker 3: was you literally feel it, you sense it that, you go,
Speaker 3: oh my god, my life is not and.
Speaker 1: You can't really take it back. Like once, once you're
Speaker 1: out there in your name and your recognite, well, you
Speaker 1: can't rewind that.
Speaker 2: Even that you see in Hollywood through people.
Speaker 1: That haven't filmed or made anything for years and they're
Speaker 1: still always followed, They're still gonna be papped, they're still
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 3: Like Alicia Silverstone, who I just worked with on senior year,
Speaker 3: who's just the most gorgeous girl. And I remember her
Speaker 3: from Clueless obviously so iconic, so recognizable, and yeah, and
Speaker 3: she hasn't actually worked, but god, in the moment you
Speaker 3: see her, you're like, oh my god, Alicia, like hi,
Speaker 3: Like she must get it and people quoting the movie
Speaker 3: to her and stuff. She must get that every day
Speaker 3: for the rest of our life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's when you're part of these movies that are
Speaker 1: so they're so like generational, you know, pitch Perfect or
Speaker 1: something that of that generation who's watched it.
Speaker 2: It's so formative to that.
Speaker 3: Like for us fans, like we love her fan so much.
Speaker 1: Playing the role fat Amy and like having like a
Speaker 1: very like I don't know how you describe it, not
Speaker 1: stereotyped role, but you played Fat Amy like it was
Speaker 1: very much like that is your that is a role
Speaker 1: on the show. What is it like being given that
Speaker 1: title but also having such a well known character then
Speaker 1: being able to break out of that character to play
Speaker 1: different roles in other movies?
Speaker 2: Is that challenging?
Speaker 3: I had, weirdly had a character on Australian TV called
Speaker 3: Fat Mandy when I did a skept show called The Wedge.
Speaker 3: So it wasn't actually it wasn't like. I remember when
Speaker 3: Kay Kennon reached out to me about the film, she's
Speaker 3: the writer of the films, and she was like, Oh,
Speaker 3: I don't mean to offend you, but there's this character.
Speaker 3: First of all, it wasn't even offensive at all, because
Speaker 3: when I did look at the script, even though fat
Speaker 3: Amy wasn't the biggest character, to me, she was the funniest,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, yeah, you know, that's like
Speaker 3: awesome to have on paper what I thought was the
Speaker 3: funniest role. So being bigger, I was kind of a
Speaker 3: normal size, maybe a bit on the athletic side when
Speaker 3: I was a teenager, and then I had something called
Speaker 3: PCOS and I gained One of the symptoms of that
Speaker 3: is you can gain weight quite rapidly when you're about
Speaker 3: twenty and twenty one. So like, obviously I knew I
Speaker 3: was a bigger girl, and I was like, you just
Speaker 3: got to embrace it. You got to in comedy. And
Speaker 3: that's why I went more into comedy acting because I
Speaker 3: knew logically and also like i'd done this subject and
Speaker 3: a university called Comedy and Power, and it was really
Speaker 3: interesting about how much power comedians can have and that
Speaker 3: people often like to laugh at people that they don't
Speaker 3: want to have sex with. So normally you'll find a
Speaker 3: lot of comedians like this is like some psychological thing
Speaker 3: is some comedians often have something that's physical about them
Speaker 3: that's abnormal a bit whether they're super tall, or they've
Speaker 3: got a giant nose, or they're bigger ladies. Those people
Speaker 3: tend to go better in comedy. So I turned what
Speaker 3: was seen by a lot of agents and people in
Speaker 3: the business at the time of being a bigger girl
Speaker 3: as a disadvantage into my advantage. And I was like, yep, okay,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go specialize in comedy in Nicole Kim
Speaker 3: and gave me a scholarship. I went to New York
Speaker 3: to study comedy school. I was like, I'm gonna even
Speaker 3: though I did want to become the next Dame Judi Dench,
Speaker 3: I was like, but I'm a bigger girl, I'll go
Speaker 3: into comedy very serious, yeahrama, yeah, yeah. I didn't think
Speaker 3: I was funny at all. I like, I did not,
Speaker 3: which is funny, Like I did not think that. And
Speaker 3: then but I knew I was smart and a lot
Speaker 3: of behind a lot of comedians is you know, a
Speaker 3: really good brain. And so I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 3: I feel like I can do it. But it was
Speaker 3: purely because of my size. I go I got a
Speaker 3: much better chance being in comedy and making fun of
Speaker 3: myself or you know, laughing at myself and making others laugh,
Speaker 3: and so being fat Amy, I don't know, it was
Speaker 3: such a privilege because I never saw it as a negative.
Speaker 3: I was like the confident chick. Was it hard sometimes,
Speaker 3: like some of my co stars in Pitch, like Anna
Speaker 3: and Brittany, like they're so tiny and like I literally
Speaker 3: I feel like I weighed three times more than them.
Speaker 3: And at times sometimes you'd be like whatever, everyone's just
Speaker 3: born differently in different bodies, and that was my body
Speaker 3: and that's their, and we just celebrate all of each other.
Speaker 3: And Bella's means like beautiful and Italian. We're all beautiful
Speaker 3: and whatever. And I just loved being fat Amy. I
Speaker 3: love like that was me and that so I just
Speaker 3: I don't know, I love playing that character and the
Speaker 3: whole comedy thing. I think it is interesting psychologically about
Speaker 3: how people go into get into comedy and stuff, and
Speaker 3: you often use, yeah, something that people can see as
Speaker 3: a physical disadvantage to your advantage.
Speaker 1: I think it's just a really important message just to
Speaker 1: not brush over it. But what you just said for
Speaker 1: everyone listening is that there is so much power in
Speaker 1: just accepting and celebrating who you are. Because if you
Speaker 1: tried to go to Hollywood, and be something you're not.
Speaker 1: If you tried to go and say everyone else is
Speaker 1: doing and looking like this, you wouldn't have made it.
Speaker 1: Nothing would have happened for you because you you.
Speaker 3: Would chose to imagine if I tried to somehow look
Speaker 3: like Kate Blanchard on a cockit, I know, I'm just
Speaker 3: using it because there's such you know, big names, well,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have succeeded. I had to be my like,
Speaker 3: I had to be me. And one of the things
Speaker 3: that I had going for me at acting school back
Speaker 3: in the day is that I wasn't the most talented,
Speaker 3: Like I really wasn't. At the Australian Theater for young people,
Speaker 3: there were so many more people that were way more
Speaker 3: gifted than me. But I was unique and I was
Speaker 3: an individual and I luckily had that fostered at ATAP
Speaker 3: and if I hadn't ha done that, like because therefore
Speaker 3: when I rocked up in America, I get signed like
Speaker 3: my second day in America because I was different and
Speaker 3: I was myself and I was like very true to myself,
Speaker 3: and there really wasn't big actresses like at that time,
Speaker 3: there was like Melissa McCarthy, and I don't even know
Speaker 3: if there was anybody else at that point.
Speaker 2: Not really, there really wasn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I rode what other people thought as a
Speaker 3: disadvantage into my total advantage and made millions millions of
Speaker 3: dollars doing it, and also had an amazing time and
Speaker 3: loved being I love I was so body confident and
Speaker 3: body positive at being a size sixteen to eighteen, which
Speaker 3: I have been for most of my life, and then
Speaker 3: so now I'm what like an eight or ten or
Speaker 3: something in American sizes. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: So was there was there a time in Hollywood? Obviously
Speaker 1: that was what you became famous for. You were accepted
Speaker 1: for who you were. Was there ever a time that
Speaker 1: people in power, people in the industry fat shamed you
Speaker 1: even though this is what you were there? You know,
Speaker 1: you were who you were, you were getting these amazing roles,
Speaker 1: You're an amazing actress. Did you ever feel like you're
Speaker 1: being stereotyped or.
Speaker 3: It's so weird because a lot of actresses have some
Speaker 3: kind of fat shaming story, particularly around photo shoots. I
Speaker 3: only had one story where like I rocked up. This
Speaker 3: was before I have my world's most amazing styl as
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Stewart who does do Cate Blanchett and Julia Roberts
Speaker 3: and Yola Davis and all these amazing Sandra Bullock everyone.
Speaker 3: Before I'd met her, I didn't really have a stylist,
Speaker 3: and I remember rocking up to a photo shoot and
Speaker 3: they didn't have any clothes to fit me, and so
Speaker 3: they literally put this scarf around you. You're like, and
Speaker 3: you can still, yeah, you can find yeah, yeah, Well
Speaker 3: it was just me with the scarff, like your silk
Speaker 3: kind of scarf draped around me, and I'm like, ah,
Speaker 3: but weirdly, I don't know where the people just didn't
Speaker 3: mess with me because they knew I was very secure
Speaker 3: in myself. It's the ones that are not so secure
Speaker 3: that can get really messed up by things in particular
Speaker 3: like photoshoots. But then I teamed up with my amazing
Speaker 3: stylus and I was the only plus sized girl that
Speaker 3: she had on her books. But I never had that situation.
Speaker 3: She never didn't have clothes that wouldn't fit me like.
Speaker 3: She'd always have options and gorgeous, glamorous options with from
Speaker 3: great designers. So she hooked me up with Javonci, for example,
Speaker 3: and they made me custom dresses and things like so
Speaker 3: it was really I don't know, it was never really
Speaker 3: an issue, but I know a lot of women have struggled.
Speaker 3: I only really had that one experience, which is rare
Speaker 3: because a lot of girls who have normal size, like
Speaker 3: a normal size, get told there they're fad or whatever, yeah,
Speaker 3: and shamed.
Speaker 2: I'm going to look for the scar photo after this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I guess like the antithesis of that, when you
Speaker 1: decided you've made it, you know you've got your place
Speaker 1: in Hollywood, and you're like, Okay, I'm going to go
Speaker 1: for my year of health.
Speaker 2: I'm going to change everything.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get healthy and happy and all the
Speaker 1: rest of it? Was that hard for you in terms
Speaker 1: of people saying, well, you know, that's not your role
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. We don't really want you to change because
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 3: Who you are. I definitely had people not being supportive
Speaker 3: of that life change when I told announced it's going
Speaker 3: to be my year of health. I guess because like
Speaker 3: being bigger, I didn't have any serious disease or whatever.
Speaker 3: I was getting checked for diabetes and things like that,
Speaker 3: but I didn't have anything. But I knew secretly, like
Speaker 3: my emotional eating was unhealthy and.
Speaker 2: All you can eat pizza buffet.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I knew, like that is not rebel like
Speaker 3: a healthy way to be dealing with with emotions, whether
Speaker 3: they're happy or sad emotions or stress work emotions. Like
Speaker 3: I knew deep down, I can't keep doing that, Like
Speaker 3: I can't. I've got to have a healthier option for
Speaker 3: my life. But it was hard because I'm traveling all
Speaker 3: around the world, having this amazing life, making like a
Speaker 3: ton of money and having a great career, like I'm
Speaker 3: so proud of everything that I've achieved, and you know,
Speaker 3: just wanting to be in one Hollywood movie. Now I
Speaker 3: think I've done like twenty and as like now now
Speaker 3: it's awesome. But then I just knew, okay, no, I'm
Speaker 3: turning forty. I know that I can be healthier. Even
Speaker 3: though I loved myself being bigger and it never stopped
Speaker 3: me from doing anything really And then I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make the big change and lose excess weight
Speaker 3: that my body doesn't need to be carrying around. And yeah,
Speaker 3: it was I had quite a lot of yeah pushback
Speaker 3: from that because people are like, but why why would
Speaker 3: you want to change, Like You're awesome how you are,
Speaker 3: and I was like, yeah, I know that, but I
Speaker 3: also know I'm engaging in some things that aren't healthy
Speaker 3: and I've got to, you know, work on that.
Speaker 1: When you say you received pushback, who specifically was that from.
Speaker 1: Was it from like your audience, your fans, was it
Speaker 1: from the people who represent you, people who are casting you.
Speaker 3: It was people that represented me who are amazing at
Speaker 3: what they do, like really amazing, but they weren't living
Speaker 3: my life. But also from some people on social media
Speaker 3: would be like, well, are you gonna be funny now?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, well, I think if physicality is one
Speaker 3: tool in your toolkit as a comedian, you can use,
Speaker 3: but there's many many other tools that I that I
Speaker 3: have and that you guys will see in upcoming movies,
Speaker 3: and so it's just about diversifying that. But it was, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's interesting. But then on the whole, pretty much everyone's
Speaker 3: been so supportive. And then I made my journey very
Speaker 3: public to make it accountable. But everyone's been so nice
Speaker 3: about it, and everyone gives you so many compliments and whatever.
Speaker 3: They're like, everyone's like, wow, you look great, And then
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, did I not look so gape
Speaker 3: before the guys.
Speaker 1: How has this year of health changed the roles that
Speaker 1: you're now getting or changed you not just physically in
Speaker 1: how you feel it everything else, but changed your ability
Speaker 1: in your work? Like, how has that changed?
Speaker 3: Weirly, it's now opened up dramatic roles which I wasn't
Speaker 3: really getting considered for before, which is awesome because now
Speaker 3: I can use that acting muscle that I haven't used
Speaker 3: as much of. And so I filmed this movie called
Speaker 3: The arm And and the Seahorse. Obviousitly this amazing French
Speaker 3: actor Charlotte Gainsburg, and that's really cool to now be
Speaker 3: seen in that light. But people in Hollywood they kind
Speaker 3: of have to see it first and then they change
Speaker 3: their minds. You can't convince people otherwise. They almost got
Speaker 3: to see or change first and then they go, oh, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like that's going to be huge
Speaker 1: for the audience because I'm just trying to think.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know you have done things in the past, but
Speaker 1: everything that I can think of of you is comedy.
Speaker 1: I don't want to make you fel uncomfortable, but I
Speaker 1: was supposed to come to that premiere with you, so
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the movie.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: Supposed to kind of sell your drama film, but I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see it because I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see And now that I know you personally, obviously, I
Speaker 1: know you have that side to you, but you I'm
Speaker 1: just quite.
Speaker 3: Serious in real life. Though.
Speaker 1: Everyone asks me what's Rebel really like, and I'm like, actually,
Speaker 1: nothing like who you represent on.
Speaker 3: Film, which I take as a compliment to my acting
Speaker 3: that they think I am exactly like fat Amy or
Speaker 3: exactly like they do think that, And then I go, well,
Speaker 3: that's just a compliment that I've made myself seem very believable,
Speaker 3: because I think I am much more serious and responsible
Speaker 3: in real life than on screen.
Speaker 1: But I think it's so interesting as well that like
Speaker 1: maybe in order, and I don't want to say that
Speaker 1: it had to be the way, but like breaking that stereotype,
Speaker 1: breaking that mold of being like, you know, the person
Speaker 1: who always is going to be the funny person in
Speaker 1: the comedy skit. To be able to now have these
Speaker 1: dramatic roles and to be able to shift and kind
Speaker 1: of retransform yourself in your career, it all came down
Speaker 1: to this year of health or that's played a huge
Speaker 1: part in it and in people's perceptions. I think that
Speaker 1: there is still in Hollywood or in acting that there
Speaker 1: is still like very much a type or a cast
Speaker 1: at how they go, Okay, well if you are the
Speaker 1: biggest sized girl.
Speaker 2: You're going to be in comedy.
Speaker 1: You're not going to be in a drama, or you're
Speaker 1: not going to be in seat of something that's a
Speaker 1: more serious role.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there definitely was when I came to Hollywood.
Speaker 3: But I think the good thing about diversity and inclusion
Speaker 3: is that not only with ethnicities is it changing. Like
Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing if you're out there and you're
Speaker 3: like a diverse actor, like not Caucasian, it's an amazing
Speaker 3: time for you right now, Like there's so many roles
Speaker 3: going and that was not the case, Like it just
Speaker 3: wasn't the case ten years ago. But I also think
Speaker 3: in the inclusion with it, whether it be like on
Speaker 3: the sexuality spectrum or with body types, it's becoming part
Speaker 3: of being inclusive and stuff. So it definitely wasn't. It
Speaker 3: really wasn't. When I first came to Hollywood, there was
Speaker 3: hardly any plus size actresses. And I still think there
Speaker 3: was some statistic. This is like a few years ago,
Speaker 3: but it was something like leading Ladies, it's less than
Speaker 3: one percent or something of plus size actresses. When you
Speaker 3: look at all Hollywood films, there is some movement in
Speaker 3: including different body types in the inclusivity movement.
Speaker 1: Well, I think as well as why there's so much
Speaker 1: there's so much media attention when somebody We've seen it
Speaker 1: with Adele, we saw it with you. When somebody who
Speaker 1: is plus size has a dramatic weight loss and the
Speaker 1: metea is so like, tell me everything, how did you
Speaker 1: do it? And I think it's because there is this underrepresentation.
Speaker 1: So like when one person steps out of that role,
Speaker 1: they're like, whoa, well, what are you doing that? You're
Speaker 1: not supposed to be doing that. You're not supposed to
Speaker 1: be that person.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because they see you as one way and
Speaker 3: they like you as one way, and they want you
Speaker 3: to be that.
Speaker 2: People don't like change.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think in your family, say, you know,
Speaker 3: say there's two sisters and they're both overweight, and one
Speaker 3: loses weight and the other one doesn't, and there could
Speaker 3: be some resentment from the other sister going well, why
Speaker 3: did you change? And that makes them not feel good
Speaker 3: about themselves whatever reason, and it's so relatable. I think that, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's some people out there that don't like the change,
Speaker 3: but I'm kind of like, just did it for myself
Speaker 3: and knew I could be a healthier version of myself
Speaker 3: and that was my only goal. Then I was so
Speaker 3: proud of myself that I could actually do it.
Speaker 2: Well, you're look incredible, You've done an amazing job. So
Speaker 2: well done.
Speaker 1: I think a big thing is the small changes you
Speaker 1: can make, because I know other people probably ask you,
Speaker 1: they're write you this, like how did you do it? Though?
Speaker 2: What did you do?
Speaker 1: And I just think of even the times that we
Speaker 1: catch up.
Speaker 2: You catch up for a.
Speaker 1: Walk or catch up to tennis, or you don't have
Speaker 1: to be going to a drink. We don't have to
Speaker 1: be going to and you can eat buffet, Like, there
Speaker 1: are so many different ways you can catch up with
Speaker 1: people and incorporate these things into your life without actually
Speaker 1: feeling like I've got to pull myself.
Speaker 2: Out about it at five am to go and slog
Speaker 2: it out the gym.
Speaker 3: You don't actually have to. Like walking is like one
Speaker 3: of the best things, just getting out there and going
Speaker 3: for a walk, which pretty much most people can do,
Speaker 3: and it just like is it's the best thing. I
Speaker 3: went to the Fancy Is Health retreat in Europe to
Speaker 3: learn that just walking, just walking for an hour day
Speaker 3: is really good. You don't really need to slog it out.
Speaker 3: I mean I did slog it out to lose weight
Speaker 3: more quickly, but like, yeah, you don't actually have to
Speaker 3: do that, and that's not part of my regular routine now.
Speaker 1: So moving back to Australian Territory, we did mention before
Speaker 1: you do do a lot of charity work, and you
Speaker 1: have done a lot of working in Africa, but you
Speaker 1: did just come back to Australia and drop very very
Speaker 1: large amount of money.
Speaker 2: You just donated one million.
Speaker 3: Dollars to the Australian.
Speaker 2: Theater for Young People, which is where you train.
Speaker 3: I know, because they were so supportive of me as
Speaker 3: a young actor. And anyone who's like through the pandemic
Speaker 3: knows like live theater and you know, theater. The industry
Speaker 3: has suffered greatly and it's such a shame because it's
Speaker 3: like for me, it's like the best. I love seeing
Speaker 3: shows and musicals, it's one of my favorite things to do.
Speaker 3: And the Austraian theater for young people had a space
Speaker 3: that the government allocated them down at the Wharf in Sydney,
Speaker 3: but they didn't have the money to build the new
Speaker 3: theater and all the fit out, and so I was like, well, okay,
Speaker 3: I'll donate because I just feel very strong in giving
Speaker 3: back and I was given a lot from them, and
Speaker 3: so I was like, okay, I'm going to give back.
Speaker 2: You gave back tennis the way.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. But even the scholarship that Nicole Kimmen had
Speaker 3: given me through ato IP, like, I repaid that as
Speaker 3: soon as I could, as soon as it was only
Speaker 3: at the time it was only twelve thousand dollars, but
Speaker 3: that was a lot of money at the time, and
Speaker 3: I repaid that as well because I was like, I
Speaker 3: just believe in in doing that. And then it gives
Speaker 3: this awesome new theater a home for like thousands of
Speaker 3: kids are going to perform there and get their start there,
Speaker 3: and that makes me feel like really really good. And
Speaker 3: then the first show that's going to open the theater
Speaker 3: in February is called The deb and it's a musical
Speaker 3: that I've been producing with a very talented team and
Speaker 3: it's about a debutante ball in a small country town.
Speaker 3: It'll be the first production in the new Rebel Theater
Speaker 3: down at the wharf.
Speaker 2: When does it come out?
Speaker 3: Oh, it might start previewing mid February, but late February.
Speaker 2: Well, go, I say it.
Speaker 1: Do you know you just spoke about kids and you're
Speaker 1: talking about the theater. But something else that you've done,
Speaker 1: because you're such an overachiever, is that you have published
Speaker 1: a book called Bella the Brave And.
Speaker 2: I can see it.
Speaker 3: Can you tell us a little bit about my mantalga?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's right there, like next to the awards,
Speaker 1: next to the trophies. But why Bella the Brave? What
Speaker 1: was the initiative behind it? Why did you want to
Speaker 1: write a book that was for young girls?
Speaker 3: I think I literally am a late bloomer in a
Speaker 3: lot of things, and so I sometimes wish I'd had
Speaker 3: certain messages earlier. And the first book about Bella the
Speaker 3: Brave is about overcoming shyness, which was my first kind
Speaker 3: of battle in life, and I'm glad I did overcome
Speaker 3: it and started to express my personality to people, because
Speaker 3: I wasn't naturally like that as a child, and so
Speaker 3: I think just with bell I thought well, in my movies,
Speaker 3: I'm getting across a lot of girl power messages and
Speaker 3: things about loving yourself and some really nice messages in
Speaker 3: my films, but they're more for older teens and above,
Speaker 3: And so I thought, oh, for the younger kids, like,
Speaker 3: it could be really cool to do these picture books
Speaker 3: and have these awesome, nice positive messages in and to
Speaker 3: tell little stories. Bella's a kind of nod to It
Speaker 3: was about perfect, yeah, because I was like, I didn't
Speaker 3: want to call a rebel like brain lead character.
Speaker 2: Like I write my own movies, I put myself in.
Speaker 2: I write my own books, but.
Speaker 3: It's obviously me the character Bella, but I didn't want
Speaker 3: to call her my own name.
Speaker 1: You just mentioned shyness, which is like something that you've overcome.
Speaker 1: I question, and this is from producer Keisha. She threw
Speaker 1: this one in and I think it's a great one.
Speaker 1: What is something about yourself now that you dislike? A
Speaker 1: characteristic that you're like.
Speaker 2: You know what, if I could work on one thing,
Speaker 2: this would be the thing.
Speaker 3: I'm so independent, Like, I'm so so independent that I
Speaker 3: think with relationships it's hard to be one. It's hard.
Speaker 3: That's the one that I'm like, why am I like
Speaker 3: so abnormal in that area or whatever, and that I'm
Speaker 3: trying to see if I can get past that because
Speaker 3: I'm just so I'm so used to being single and
Speaker 3: like being by myself that like, I get used to
Speaker 3: that and I've maybe got certain ways that I should VERA.
Speaker 1: Was like, do you think that I'll ever just like
Speaker 1: actually like having someone in my space?
Speaker 2: Like maybe one day or potentially not.
Speaker 1: There's plenty of people who are in healthy relationships who
Speaker 1: actually hate living with their partner totally.
Speaker 3: People have separate bedrooms horribly and like, and I just
Speaker 3: I just don't know whether maybe I haven't met the
Speaker 3: right person yet or I'm just like, I don't know, you.
Speaker 2: Just need a bigger house, different levels. I don't know,
Speaker 2: because it's pretty big. I mean, that's a really nice
Speaker 2: little segue.
Speaker 1: We are, you know, we are predominantly a relationship podcast.
Speaker 1: We love to talk about love and dating and independence
Speaker 1: and breakup and.
Speaker 3: I do love dating podcasts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, maybe you should listen to one one day now.
Speaker 3: I have listened to like when I have I.
Speaker 1: Have no but let's talk about and we're not going
Speaker 1: to get into the specifics, but love and dating and
Speaker 1: breakups for you?
Speaker 2: How is that? I mean, how has that evolved for you.
Speaker 1: From being your dorky teen into dating in the public
Speaker 1: eye and everyone looking at every single thing you do and.
Speaker 2: I just want to quickly she's well, yeah, like quickly.
Speaker 1: To throw in there like your ex Jacob Rip. Sorry
Speaker 1: that that ended, but he was so hot. Well done. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like very.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anyone wants someone to say that
Speaker 2: about the X. Oh, don't we talk about.
Speaker 3: How he's just a hearty, ease, pure physical perfection. I
Speaker 3: will attest to that in every way.
Speaker 1: But what's it like having a relationship in the public
Speaker 1: eye and having to date and having everyone's everyone's interest.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, first of all, yeah, I'm I am a
Speaker 3: late bloomer, I guess because in my twenties I never
Speaker 3: dated anybody, not anybody, which is sad in a way.
Speaker 3: But I needed to be very focused and disciplined, almost
Speaker 3: like an Olympic athlete level of focus to make it
Speaker 3: in the entertainment industry. Like it was that hard. Now
Speaker 3: I can take my foot off the gas a little bit,
Speaker 3: but it's I don't know, it's amazing, Like some things
Speaker 3: come out about people you're dating, and then some with
Speaker 3: some other people, it never comes out. It just depends.
Speaker 3: And sometimes the press or right thing you know, that
Speaker 3: are totally untrue, and sometimes they're on the money with it.
Speaker 3: So it just it's a bit we It's like an
Speaker 3: extra complication being in the public eye. I guess I've
Speaker 3: had like a guy not want to date me because
Speaker 3: he came to a movie premiere and like had a
Speaker 3: panic attack with the.
Speaker 2: Attention and not ideal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it didn't want to date me because I was
Speaker 3: in the public eye, and that was hard to deal with.
Speaker 3: And then I've had other guys who are very much
Speaker 3: liking the attention, and then it can swing the other
Speaker 3: opposite way where they like it a bit too much
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, that's that can be a red
Speaker 3: flag as well.
Speaker 1: So, well, how do you differentiate, because I imagine this
Speaker 1: is something that anyone deals with in the public eye.
Speaker 1: How do you know that someone that it's genuine and
Speaker 1: they're not using you to leverage themselves or get publicity
Speaker 1: for themselves.
Speaker 3: That's hard. Well, I think I'm a pretty good judge
Speaker 3: of character, and I you know, and I haven't had
Speaker 3: any horror stories or anything, but not in the romantic sense.
Speaker 3: But I have had some people in Hollywood that still
Speaker 3: swindled me when and I'm such a smart, you know person,
Speaker 3: but like, I've still had a couple of like friendships.
Speaker 3: I guess where you've been swindled. Luckily, I haven't really
Speaker 3: had it in the romantic area. At the end of
Speaker 3: the day, like your job and whatever is part of you,
Speaker 3: so you want them to like it.
Speaker 1: But then I don't know, do you think you have
Speaker 1: to date somebody in the public eye that does what
Speaker 1: you do or do you have a preference. Could you
Speaker 1: just date Joe boy from down the street.
Speaker 3: Well, I've never dated like an actor because I just
Speaker 3: I don't think two actors or whatever would be good
Speaker 3: together real Hollywood relationship.
Speaker 2: Six would suggest otherwise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I've dated from the very very wealthy
Speaker 3: to like really has no money and is in a
Speaker 3: sharehouse with two other people. I've dated the spectrum. It's
Speaker 3: quite interesting to date different people and just find out,
Speaker 3: you know, what's what's the best. But I feel like
Speaker 3: the person you're dating, they've got to be very secure
Speaker 3: in themselves. And I'm not the most famous, you know,
Speaker 3: but like I have a successful movie career and stuff.
Speaker 3: So there's sometimes you know, you get attention or things
Speaker 3: from that and the other person's got to be very secure.
Speaker 1: What's your advice for somebody now that might be going
Speaker 1: through a breakup, because I know you obviously went through
Speaker 1: a breakup with Jacob, you've been before, But what's your
Speaker 1: advice for someone We have people writing every single day
Speaker 1: that are just really struggling with moving on or accepting
Speaker 1: a life change.
Speaker 2: Advice it is. And I also I'm very, very jealous
Speaker 2: of your friendship.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, Laura, but Rebel
Speaker 1: is really good friends with Matthew Hussy, which is somebody
Speaker 1: that we hear at Life Uncut Love and we go.
Speaker 2: Here for a lot of advises. I need to get
Speaker 2: him on the podcast, if you can put him the word.
Speaker 3: I've had to call him a couple of times to
Speaker 3: get relationship and love advice because he's so good, Like,
Speaker 3: he's just so good. And he came to my birthday
Speaker 3: party this year on Rebel Island and he's like and
Speaker 3: of course anytime I can talk to him about stuff,
Speaker 3: I'm like, Matthew, what do you reckon about this? I'm
Speaker 3: in this situation like what should I do? He's just
Speaker 3: a legend, like and he has a podcast as well
Speaker 3: that you can learn stuff from. But the question was
Speaker 3: about breakups.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like just what's your best advice to somebody that's
Speaker 1: going through one and they just feel a bit of
Speaker 1: despair and like the world is over, they've never dated again,
Speaker 1: they can't get themselves out of bed. You know that,
Speaker 1: I am, weirdly normally the person that dumps somebody.
Speaker 3: I hate that word.
Speaker 2: You're the dumper.
Speaker 3: I'm yeah, I'm not usually the person that gets dumped.
Speaker 2: Why do you think that is? Why are you the dumpers?
Speaker 2: Because she's got she can't beat a relationships? You hate people.
Speaker 3: I would love to be dumb, Yeah, I would, because
Speaker 3: then at least it's not me having to do it. Like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I'm normally the one that I'm
Speaker 3: like at a certain point, you're like this is good,
Speaker 3: but I, you know, I feel like maybe this person's
Speaker 3: not the one. And then when you feel that, then
Speaker 3: maybe you have to move on. And it's awful, especially
Speaker 3: when you care about the person and respect them and
Speaker 3: you just think, but I don't think I can't see
Speaker 3: this being long term or I can't see myself getting
Speaker 3: engaged to them, so I've got to end it. And
Speaker 3: it's awful, Like it's awful, it's never good. But then also,
Speaker 3: once I have been dumped one time, there was only
Speaker 3: one time, and kind of refuse to believe it there
Speaker 3: and then I didn't give up for about two more years.
Speaker 2: And then what do you mean like you kept chasing him?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And then and wait, can we deep dive into
Speaker 3: this a little bit?
Speaker 1: How did this transpire? Like how do you persist for
Speaker 1: two years? Was he very adamant or was he giving
Speaker 1: a little actually spoken about this? And it's more like
Speaker 1: it's when you, like, in the opposite of what you
Speaker 1: just see, I think they'll come around. Yeah, when you
Speaker 1: have those feelings like but to me, you're right, So
Speaker 1: how can't I be right to you that you know
Speaker 1: that feeling of like yeah or everything to me?
Speaker 3: But so I don't know, I say, well, why am
Speaker 3: I feeling all these feelings if it's not real?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And it was. It was really hard. So okay, So basically, though,
Speaker 3: long story shut, I have empathy for people who have
Speaker 3: to dump people. And maybe you're in a relationship and
Speaker 3: now you're in the new year and you're like, I
Speaker 3: don't know about this relationship. I don't know whether it's
Speaker 3: serving me the best or I'm being the best my
Speaker 3: best self in this and I got to get out
Speaker 3: of it, you know, and you might have to dump
Speaker 3: the person or if you've been dumped and I know
Speaker 3: that feeling as well, and it's like it is very
Speaker 3: sad that you're like, oh my god. I think Hussey's
Speaker 3: advice is normally not sometimes not to take it personally.
Speaker 3: I think I did take it very personally when I
Speaker 3: was dumped when it really wasn't about me. It was
Speaker 3: about what the other person was going through. And you
Speaker 3: can take it very personally because obviously it's you being dumped,
Speaker 3: but you just sometimes it's not about you and the
Speaker 3: person's doing your favor by they're letting you know for whatever,
Speaker 3: because if that person is investing in the relationship. MATTHIASI
Speaker 3: talks about like test and invest, it'll invest and then
Speaker 3: test to see whether the other person is investing back,
Speaker 3: and if they're not, then you're like, you shouldn't be
Speaker 3: in that relationship if it's not.
Speaker 1: It's so hugely undervalued just how hard it is and
Speaker 1: how hard it can be to be the one doing
Speaker 1: the breakup, like the one. We have so much sympathy
Speaker 1: and empathy for the person who's being broken up with,
Speaker 1: like we know that they need to be held up
Speaker 1: and supported, But when you're the person who has to do.
Speaker 2: That to another human.
Speaker 3: Hard, I hate so hard because I always, you know,
Speaker 3: got a bit of people pleasing in me, and so like,
Speaker 3: you don't want to you don't want to hurt somebody.
Speaker 1: So just coming back to what you said just before
Speaker 1: in regards to like, you know, being able to relatively early,
Speaker 1: not even really early, but being able to feel out
Speaker 1: that it's not the right relationship for you. What is
Speaker 1: it that you're looking for? Like what are your deal
Speaker 1: breakers and deal makers?
Speaker 2: Because we've got a big audience here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, guy, Yeah, am I be out there for me?
Speaker 3: Still technically single? So you just I don't know that
Speaker 3: connection when I don't know whether anyone's seen like Mulan
Speaker 3: Rouge the musical or and I was sitting there and
Speaker 3: they're singing about love and I'm like, oh, I want
Speaker 3: to feel that connection where artists and poets talk about
Speaker 3: that's like that, And I just don't know whether I've
Speaker 3: found that right person yet. So I don't know how
Speaker 3: to describe that. It's just that it's just that deepness
Speaker 3: in the connection.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing that I'm just getting from
Speaker 1: you now is you're really big on just trusting the
Speaker 1: universe and trusting you got feeling and getting on with it.
Speaker 1: And I think something that people really struggle with, and
Speaker 1: I know I did once upon a time and then
Speaker 1: I fell into this ten years of singleton where I
Speaker 1: became fiercely independent. But I think people are really worried
Speaker 1: about being on their own and they can't differentiate solitude
Speaker 1: and loneliness, and they're two very different things. Being alone
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean being lonely, Yeah, because I love.
Speaker 3: Being by myself like I do. I do genuinely love
Speaker 3: having my own spaces where I get to think, I
Speaker 3: get to do my writing. But I also feel for
Speaker 3: anybody that does feel very lonely, because I also I
Speaker 3: do know that feeling and when I wasn't dating anybody
Speaker 3: for so many years and just working seven days a week, like,
Speaker 3: I know that feeling when you just come home after
Speaker 3: a day of work and you're like, oh my, like
Speaker 3: I don't have anybody to share it with, and I'm
Speaker 3: not getting smooches from anybody or whatever. Like, I know
Speaker 3: what that's like, and I know how sad and that
Speaker 3: feeling can be. And even though I'm somebody who so
Speaker 3: loves myself and is so happy and content being alone,
Speaker 3: but I also know the loneliness feeling that people can feel,
Speaker 3: and I don't know, I really empathize with them. And
Speaker 3: I guess the trick is just be the best version
Speaker 3: of yourself and go out there do activities like interact
Speaker 3: with people that you might you know, also enjoy that activity.
Speaker 3: Like I know I'm talking very generally, but like, be
Speaker 3: the best version of yourself and just create the best
Speaker 3: life and then the I think the right person will
Speaker 3: come along.
Speaker 2: Let's move into some Hollywood goss. We're going to ask
Speaker 2: you some questions, Okay, quick answers. Who's your best in Hollywood?
Speaker 3: Well, I'd say the Bellers, the girls from Pitch Perfect
Speaker 3: because we talk all the time.
Speaker 2: Who's your hall pass?
Speaker 3: Brad Pitt?
Speaker 1: Oh? Same, Yeah, it's a real staple, isn't it any age?
Speaker 3: It's just it used to be Channing Tatum, Brittany's It
Speaker 3: used to be Channing Tatum, it's now Brad Pitt why
Speaker 3: did it change? Okay, well, at the twenty twenty Oscars,
Speaker 3: Brad had just won his Oscar. I had to go backstage.
Speaker 3: I had to change into being a cat for my
Speaker 3: little bit. So I had a dressing room backstage, which
Speaker 3: is so rare, like there's only like me, James Corden,
Speaker 3: like Billie Eilish that had dressing rooms back there. And
Speaker 3: then Brad was so overwhelmed. He just won the Oscar.
Speaker 3: You know, it was awesome, but he was overwhelmed. He
Speaker 3: needed refuge. And where I was, I was like, it's like, hi, Brad,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm just getting changed into a cat. He's like,
Speaker 3: can I walk with you? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: don't you have to do press or you have to
Speaker 3: go to the press room because he's holding his oscar.
Speaker 3: He's literally just come off stage. He goes yeah, but
Speaker 3: I just like to, you know, walk with you. And
Speaker 3: then he walked me to my dressing room. We go
Speaker 3: down there's very risk corridors. We're just chit chatting. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: Timothy Charlemagne comes up and he's like, Rebel, thanks for
Speaker 3: letting me have a shower at your house. And then
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, because I remember one time I
Speaker 3: was out and he came and had a shower at
Speaker 3: my house when I wasn't there. My sister let him
Speaker 3: in and then Brad Pitt looks at me and he's
Speaker 3: like yeah, and I'm like, oh yeah, Timothy Shallo may
Speaker 3: just how showers at my house. I'm game too if
Speaker 3: you want. And then and then Brad walked me to
Speaker 3: the dressing room and then I opened and my oh
Speaker 3: my style team's in there to turn me into a cat,
Speaker 3: and they're just like, what the hell, Like we you're
Speaker 3: just with Brad Pitt just escorted you back. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's the nicest, nicest guy. And then later we spoke
Speaker 3: at the after party and that comedian Chelsea Handler was
Speaker 3: like because Brad came up and just kind of touched
Speaker 3: me on the back, and she's like, how long have
Speaker 3: you been fucking Brad Pitt? And I'm like, A wonder
Speaker 3: that room much? Yeah, I liked it wasn't true, obviously,
Speaker 3: but he's just I don't know, I just love him.
Speaker 3: I love fantastic up I've looked at him very up close.
Speaker 3: He looks great, He's beautiful. But I love hearing that
Speaker 3: he's as nice as he is good looking. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah he is. He is.
Speaker 2: Who would you want to play you in a movie?
Speaker 3: Oh me, yeah, because it depends what age. Tony Kollett
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite Strain actresses.
Speaker 2: What was it like making out with Liam Hemsworth?
Speaker 3: Okay, how many retakes did you do? Uh? That was
Speaker 3: the quickest scene were shot in the movie. I think
Speaker 3: we only did three takes when I had to ferociously
Speaker 3: make out with him in a whole way. He is
Speaker 3: the nicest guy, like so nice and so I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously they're all those brothers are very genetically gifted and
Speaker 3: are amazing. But it was like the quickest scene, Like
Speaker 3: I didn't really yeah, it literally was the five minutes
Speaker 3: or something. And it was because I knew Miley and
Speaker 3: stuff at the time. You know, no, no, no, it's just
Speaker 3: acting like whatever. But it was just so easy.
Speaker 2: We just did it, like give you a high five.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then job was done. It's never romantic, guys,
Speaker 3: It's never romantic when you're at.
Speaker 1: Work, Like, it's not who would be the best person
Speaker 1: you made out? We're not the best person. Who's your
Speaker 1: favorite makeout? Because I also know on the set that
Speaker 1: I went to.
Speaker 3: See you on Inland. So I did kiss Justin Hartley
Speaker 3: or just set.
Speaker 2: The best kisser?
Speaker 1: Like, who, like, out of a rank here of one
Speaker 1: to ten, would you be like the guy's a very
Speaker 1: good kisser.
Speaker 2: That one not so much. Tell me Justin was good?
Speaker 3: Oh, Justin was fantastic. That kiss has been cut out
Speaker 3: of the movie Senior Year, the Big, My big cheerleading
Speaker 3: comedy that you guys. I think you'll see it in
Speaker 3: about March on Netflix. But we we actually cut the
Speaker 3: kiss because audience memory they didn't like the kiss. They
Speaker 3: liked me with the other guy more. So He's go like,
Speaker 3: who else have I? Oh God, I've kissed more people
Speaker 3: on screen than what I have in real life. That's
Speaker 3: a weird statistic, is that?
Speaker 2: Actually?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Wow, I haven't had many, you know, that's insane debuts.
Speaker 3: I've had much more on screen. And I remember I
Speaker 3: won Best Kiss with Adam Devine from Pitch Perfect. We
Speaker 3: won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, which I
Speaker 3: was like pretty pumped about, Like that was awesome.
Speaker 2: So we'll go with Adam Devine for the wind.
Speaker 3: Do you think maybe maybe that was definitely my longest
Speaker 3: kiss with him? I think on screen.
Speaker 2: And just a rappit. Who would you hope to one
Speaker 2: day work with? Who would be someone you just dream
Speaker 2: of one day filming something?
Speaker 3: That's an awesome question. Now it's about like the amazing
Speaker 3: directors that I could I don't know. I mean on
Speaker 3: the females, I like Emerald Fanelle or Chloe Shao. Who
Speaker 3: these female directors that are like coming up the ranks.
Speaker 3: Like there's even like a lot of Australian directors who
Speaker 3: are director like Handmaid's Tale, like Dana Reid or Kate
Speaker 3: Shortland who did like Widow. These are Australian ladies who
Speaker 3: are like kicking us like any of those actise but
Speaker 3: actor wise, Brad Pitt, Brad pit On, but I've already
Speaker 3: worked Like in comedy, I've worked with pretty much everybody.
Speaker 3: But in drama, yeah, Timothy Shalomy is so hot right now.
Speaker 3: He's in so many awesome things and just on fire.
Speaker 3: So I would say here, I mean, damn, Judy dench Legend.
Speaker 3: There's so many, Oh, there's so many good people. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm stumped. I'm stumped.
Speaker 1: It's also hard when you've also already I worked with
Speaker 1: so many of them. You're like I've already done hit
Speaker 1: List Rebel. Thank you so much for taking the time
Speaker 1: for letting us into your beautiful home, for sitting down
Speaker 1: and doing this podcast with us. We are so greatly
Speaker 1: appreciative of it.
Speaker 3: What is next for you next? So, I mean, I've
Speaker 3: got two amazing movies coming out next year, The Armonde
Speaker 3: and The Seahorse, which is my first like flurry into
Speaker 3: serious acting such a long time, And then a big
Speaker 3: cheerleading comedy on Netflix God Senior year that I'm also produced.
Speaker 3: I'm very proud of it, and you guys, like it
Speaker 3: is the cutest, funniest movie. It just brings so much
Speaker 3: joy and it's awesome and the new like a lot
Speaker 3: of new discoveries in the cast there, and they're like
Speaker 3: so cute. So I hope you guys check it out.
Speaker 3: And then I'm directing co directing a movie that I
Speaker 3: also wrote called Girl Group coming up, So we're just
Speaker 3: about to cast.
Speaker 2: For that, you know, all you spare time, yeah and that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's ten being things going on, but it's really awesome,
Speaker 3: Like there's just so many opportunities and going really good.
Speaker 3: I have to turn down a lot of jobs because
Speaker 3: I'm like so busy.
Speaker 2: Oh don't tell anyone.
Speaker 1: Else what an amazing place to be in as well,
Speaker 1: and like, congratulations on everything that you've achieved on the books,
Speaker 1: on the film.
Speaker 3: There's really been step by step and it has been
Speaker 3: such a hard journey and whatever. But yeah, to be
Speaker 3: now like god directing, it's a Hollywood studio movie. I
Speaker 3: never thought they'd trust me with that kind of responsible but.
Speaker 2: They have insanity.
Speaker 3: It's going to be awesome and the movie is very
Speaker 3: much like Pitch Perfect, which I'm very very proud of.
Speaker 1: Well, it only took us two years to get you
Speaker 1: on the podcast, but I'm glad you finally slid back
Speaker 1: into my DMS. Thank you so much Rabel for coming
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I'm sure you have some more exciting
Speaker 1: things coming up, but you can't probably talk about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there are a few.
Speaker 3: I'm being tight lipped about things because of my publicists
Speaker 3: will get very angry if I talk if I announce
Speaker 3: them too quickly. But and if you've got young kids
Speaker 3: like Bella the Brave, the kind of four to eight
Speaker 3: age range I think is a really good age range
Speaker 3: for that. And then also if you guys like live
Speaker 3: theater and like checking out a new Australian musical. The
Speaker 3: deb was on it. The Australian thing of young people
Speaker 3: starting in February is I mean again, it's like the
Speaker 3: cutest and just to support new Australian stuff. Really. I
Speaker 3: don't know whether you guys saw Mirror's Wedding the musical,
Speaker 3: but like, oh god, I love that and it's just
Speaker 3: so rare to see Australian stuff, new stuff being developed.
Speaker 1: I think after the incredibly hard couple of years that
Speaker 1: theater and just any sort of live performance has had
Speaker 1: because of the situation of the world, if you can
Speaker 1: get out there and support it, you absolutely should.
Speaker 2: Well you're a legend, You're an inspiration. Rebel Wilson on
Speaker 2: Life on Cut.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming or slash letting us in your house.
Speaker 3: Thanks Laura, Yeah, I know, yeah, thank you guys for coming.
Speaker 3: We share every ringing the snacks and guys, I hope
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two rocks it. I hope twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: comes through. Wait, I'm trying to think of a catchphrase. Guys,
Speaker 3: I really hope twenty twenty two comes through for you.
Speaker 1: You know that we never finish an episode without our
Speaker 1: suck and our sweet our highlight and our low light
Speaker 1: of each.
Speaker 2: And every week. And Brittany, what is yours?
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a suck. It's not a big one,
Speaker 1: but it sucked. I went for a walk a few
Speaker 1: days ago with Keisha. I was meeting her at the
Speaker 1: end of the Bond Day promenade. She messaged ahead of
Speaker 1: time she knows me well. She's like, I feel like
Speaker 1: you need a coffee. I can I get you on?
Speaker 1: And I said, girlfriend, you know it, get me a
Speaker 1: double shot and I need it ready?
Speaker 2: Stat? Did you demand it like that and I need
Speaker 2: it ready? Stat? It deliberate to me? I would have
Speaker 2: been like, thanks, brabe, that'd be the best love you.
Speaker 2: It would have been completely upset.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to be a bad aus bitch anyway,
Speaker 1: So I like, yes, would absolutely love that.
Speaker 2: Really needed his coffee.
Speaker 1: Get there and the coffee the milk and I don't
Speaker 1: know how this happens, but the milk was completely off.
Speaker 1: It was disgusting, but we'd walked too far away from
Speaker 1: the cafe to go back. How does a coffee shop
Speaker 1: in Bond diet how they are so unbusy that their
Speaker 1: milk goes off?
Speaker 2: That's a really great question. I don't know what when
Speaker 2: a miss. Shall we unpack this?
Speaker 1: I don't know what when a miss? But I thought
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I've got COVID. Maybe my taste buds are off?
Speaker 1: Could this be happening? Make keach taste it. She's like,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely rank. I just like, really put a damper
Speaker 1: on my day. We're too far away to go back,
Speaker 1: and I just I admitted defeat.
Speaker 2: I didn't have a coffee.
Speaker 1: You know that you have a really good friend when
Speaker 1: you're like, I think my coffee is off?
Speaker 2: Can you try it? Why would you try it? Also?
Speaker 1: Make sure I don't have covid? Is my coffee off?
Speaker 1: Streak out of my cup? Don't try this at home?
Speaker 2: People? And what is your sweet? Actually, I already know
Speaker 2: what your sweet is.
Speaker 1: Okay, my sweet, I'm gonna go rogue. I have a
Speaker 1: multitude of sweets. I feel like comhenda. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: narrow down to one suite, that's the whole boy, We're
Speaker 1: supposed to have one.
Speaker 2: But it's the first big episode back of the year,
Speaker 2: so you're gonna make up for the last four weeks off.
Speaker 2: But how sweet? Okay? I have three number one rebels.
Speaker 2: Episode we finally did it.
Speaker 1: It was so great to finally get her on the podcast,
Speaker 1: and it's something that you guys have requested for a
Speaker 1: long time. So I just felt really good about delivering
Speaker 1: that to the people. I also think if you manifest
Speaker 1: anything in your life, if you dream, you can achieve people.
Speaker 2: That's what this is proof.
Speaker 1: I am the Queen of manifestation. I'm big on manifestation. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's my sweet.
Speaker 2: Number one sweet.
Speaker 1: Number two is a moving house in two weeks, but
Speaker 1: it's my sweet because it's just happened.
Speaker 2: Laura is moving too.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of reshuffling going around at Life one card,
Speaker 1: and it does mean we're finally going to have a dedicated.
Speaker 2: Room for a studio.
Speaker 1: We don't have to be on each other's beds anymore,
Speaker 1: we don't have to rearrange the house furnished. You know
Speaker 1: what it also means. It means Lola is no longer
Speaker 1: going to be sleeping in a hallway Laura.
Speaker 2: Laura is not in the hallway anymore. It's going to
Speaker 2: be just a great time to be alive.
Speaker 1: And my number three sweet is obviously I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: go into it depth, but we did the radio show,
Speaker 1: our very very first show launched and we're just beyond excited, grateful, shuffed.
Speaker 1: I just feel very very lucky to have that as
Speaker 1: my job, and just thanks to everyone for the support.
Speaker 2: So they are my three suites.
Speaker 1: And also for anybody, if you missed the radio show,
Speaker 1: you can jump on and listen to it on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be dropping it into the podcast feed every
Speaker 1: single Saturday, Life on Cut radio show Pieri Bill, We
Speaker 1: Pretty Hockey and Laura Ben, So you can jump on
Speaker 1: have a listen to that. But obviously we'd love you
Speaker 1: to listen to it live because we would like to
Speaker 1: not rpe shit. I'm also adding a fourth sweetening. No,
Speaker 1: we're done the Pretty Hockey Show. It is today, I
Speaker 1: am releasing a fourth suite, releasing it I am. This
Speaker 1: is an exclusive suite everybody, This is an exclusive release.
Speaker 2: We hit twenty.
Speaker 1: Million and that is a time to celebrate as well.
Speaker 1: So we finally hit the twenty million download So I
Speaker 1: have four sweets this week. I'm being super greedy.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm coming in hot with my suck.
Speaker 1: So this week, even though we're just back at work,
Speaker 1: it has been a incredibly challenging. It's just like work
Speaker 1: is just like compiled, like it's piled up. It's been
Speaker 1: a very stressful week. There's been a lot on and
Speaker 1: I had a night out on Thursday night where I
Speaker 1: was supposed to go out for a nice romantic night
Speaker 1: with Matt.
Speaker 2: We're going to go for dinner.
Speaker 1: We went to pastor Amelia, which is this little cute
Speaker 1: pasta shop in Surrey Hills, and I walked in and
Speaker 1: I started crying in public, and then I had to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom and cry. And it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: to do with Matt. It was just a very overwhelming day.
Speaker 1: But I cried in public and it's not my It was.
Speaker 2: My best look.
Speaker 1: Maybe you never cry. I have a pasta, Mary Happy
Speaker 1: calms make you happy. I cried into my pasta. So
Speaker 1: that was my suck for the week, My off milk.
Speaker 1: Public crying, public emotions. So you guys know, like Laura
Speaker 1: is not one of those cries that it can be
Speaker 1: like cute and go fly under the radar, Like when
Speaker 1: Laura cries, you know she's cried. It wasn't a glistening
Speaker 1: tear just running down my cheek. I just go instantly
Speaker 1: like I've got pink eye and I also go like
Speaker 1: a toddler who can't get their breath.
Speaker 2: That's me when I cried.
Speaker 1: Okay and my sweet for the week. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: really already took the she took the thunder. It's all
Speaker 1: the same radio twenty million, being back, keep a pew,
Speaker 1: just being back and doing the podcast. You know what,
Speaker 1: it's We love doing this, We love creating this content.
Speaker 1: It was awesome interviewing Rebel and yeah, that is it
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