she's been a part of some of the biggest comedy films in recent years, including the pitch perfect franchise and bridesmaids. but like many of us during the pandemic, she's been reassessing her life. i've come here to la, where rebel is now based, for this bbc 100 women interview. we talk about why she lost weight, her challenges with fertility, and how she's balancing that with her professional move into becoming a director, and she talks to me about how she's hoping that move will empower her to make cultural changes in the industry after experiencing sexual harassment herself. rebel wilson, thank you so much for talking to bbc 100 women. it is my pleasure. how are you? i feel like i'm very bbc today as well — i'm very serious, profesh. i think you could almost, like, be a newsreaderfor us. i could, you know. coming up now at the ”am hour — wait, is that what they say? no. coming up! breaking news, um, yeah i — i probably won't get hired from this. it's so interesting because you are one of the most high—profile actresses in hollywood. i'd say you're a household name. i'm in the top 1,000,

and also to be in the pitch perfect franchise, which is, like, the most successful musical comedy filmsn you think about that. i was like, "god, are they really?" and they're like, "yeah they really are," like, "bang, one, two and three", and i'm like it's so special. and i'm sure it will be eclipsed at some point — you know, it's like olympic records — someone will come in and, like, be better. but it's so awesome to be a part of something so special and it's something that people all around the world and really, really enjoyed. yeah. is it true, though, that you could've been a lawyer? well, i am a lawyer. oh, you are a lawyer?! yeah, i graduated in 2009. so you could be a lawyer. ifeel like i have the photo. it's not my best smile but i was very proud of myself that day. you look so happy and pleased! this is 2009 when i graduated. it was a very happy day because i was already, obviously... i was a professional actress — i'd been in 10 tv shows by the time i graduated law school — but there was something about me that was like, "i have to finish. "i have to complete this degree." it

this was when i first got pretty famous after pitch perfect and i'm like "look at me — i'm, you know,e that she was just out there, living her best life, playing this character called fat amy and, like, andjust, like, getting out there and crushing it. with — with the character of fat amy, you know, there were those sort of fat jokes that were made as well. do you feel now you can't do that? well, see, it's weird — i looked at fat amy and the pitch perfect scripts and go "that's the best character," i personally thought, so i would be honoured to play that character. i never thought of it as a negative because i'm the type of person that some people see, yeah, being biggeras, like, a hindrance to being an actress and i go "i'm gonna use it and use it for my comedy". there were some people that said "oh, well, will she not be funny now?" and i'm like "well, check out my new movie, senior year, coming out and see what you think, guys". what it has done career—wise is open up this whole other door of, like, dramatic roles and so now, i've this great movie that i just shot in the north of

on instagram, maybe because i'm still single sign like you, ok pitch perfect a try i do it. i hope it isn't —— thirst trap. you never thought about that... 7 you never thought about that...? i you never thought about that- - - ?_ you never thought about that. . . ? you never thought about that...? ~ , ., that...? ifeel like, yeah, i have grown _ that...? ifeel like, yeah, i have grown into _ that...? ifeel like, yeah, i have grown into my - that...? ifeel like, yeah, i have grown into my looksl that...? ifeel like, yeah, i- have grown into my looks 10096 have grown into my looks 100% and ifeel like have grown into my looks 100% and i feel like at a1 now, have grown into my looks 100% and ifeel like at a1 now, i'm looking, yeah, better than i ever have before, which i think it is rare. most people peek at like 20 and i think for me it's about my lifejourney like 20 and i think for me it's about my life journey coming into line —— peak. for me it only clicked together at a0 properly but what i try to do is shared just enough but hopefully people can understand, like, some of t

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♪ turn the beat around ♪ >> the "pitch perfect" star says she received pushback from her own team. >>physically transform and change my life. and they were, like, why? why would you want to do that? because i was earning millions of dollars being, you know, the funny fat girl. >>> the new permanent host of "jeopardy" is no one. bialik and jennings will tag team into 2022. no word on what happens after that. >>> what you talking about, willis? >> kevin hart delivering that iconic catch phrase during abc's live revisit of "different strokes." fans got to see jennifer aniston star as blair on the new take of "the facts of life." ♪ i live in america ♪ >>> so james brown believed the cia was spying on him about a year before his death. brown wrote in his memoir, quote, i could sense them watching me, spying on me, staking out my home. cnn's own thomas lake reports that brown may have been paranoid, but it is also possible that not all his suspicions were wrong. >> paranoid but maybe right, thomas. >> that's very possible. this all started back in 2017, when i got a phone call from a woman

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pitch for abraham lincoln bookshop. if you want to collect stuff, is a perfect example of what can happen with this obsession of yours. it is valuable, it is not just you. it is a really valuable thing. so anyway it is a great job congratulations. i know you love doing it and you have all this great stuff to work with pretty quickly for the folks at home, caroline is also the author of remembering the civil war, reunion and the limits of reconciliation. and burying the dead but not the past ladies memorial association the lost cause. when i see that book of course i think of having karen cox on this showed just a few months ago. of course there's the late robert e lee statue in richmond. but of course she'd already done dixie's daughters. this topic of women, southern women in the postwar is crucial to understanding the civil war. >> rate. the work that karen does it dovetails nicely, i think our work dovetails nicely together. the lee money or the former lee monument the daughters of confederacy rallied around affects the women i wrote about in that first book who are part of the initial plans to build that monument

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