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Rebel Wilson Says She Was Contractually Not Allowed To Lose Weight While Filming Pitch Perfect!

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

Listen, it's the Bird Show.

0:02.0

What's trending now?

0:03.0

No!

0:04.0

Kristen knows.

0:05.0

It's the Bird Show's entertainment bus.

0:07.0

Rebel Wilson played the character Fat Amy in the pitch-perfect movies.

0:12.0

And she's disclosing that the contract she had for pitch-perfect actually prohibited her

0:17.8

from losing weight.

0:19.6

I did wait until pitch-perfect seemed like it was over.

0:23.0

I couldn't lose a massive amount of weight because I was in the contracts for that movie.

0:27.2

I think it was more than 10 pounds or more than 10 pounds.

0:32.2

You have to stay at the weights and let in your contract.

0:36.2

And she was not offended by being asked to play a character with that name.

0:40.2

I got sent the script and she sends me this script and goes,

0:42.2

I hope you don't not offended, but the character is called Fat Amy.

0:46.2

And then I read it and I was like, no, Fat Amy is the best character in the whole movie.

0:51.2

Of course I'd love to play it.

0:52.2

And it really didn't offend.

0:54.2

I guess, you know, it's not.

0:56.2

I mean, that was kind of distinctive about the character and I love playing her like so much.

1:00.2

Cassie has a great take on this.

1:02.2

Didn't you like put the power into the word Fat?

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