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Perth Now
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Rebel Wilson says she was 'seen differently' by Hollywood as soon as she lost weight
Rebel Wilson was "seen differently" by Hollywood as soon as she lost weight. The 45-year-old actress was initially known for her comedic roles such as Fat Amy in 'Pitch Perfect' and Brynn in 'Bridesmaids' but once she shed the pounds, she was able to take a more dramatic approach to her film career. Speaking on SirusXM, she said: "When I lost a lot of weight in 2020, I lost like 70 or 80 pounds, from that point, I started getting offered more serious roles. I did this British indie movie that was really serious about traumatic brain injury and now I'm playing Lady Capulet [in 'Juliet and Romeo'] so I kind of un-typecast myself by losing weight and I loved being the bigger, funny girl. "I loved playing Fat Amy in the 'Pitch Perfect' movies, it was so cool. That still is me in so many respects but I guess, once I did lose weight, people started to see me a bit differently." The 'Senior Year' star recalled that when she initially stared out in her career, she did want to be more of a "serious actress" but was able to get her foot in the door via her comedic abilities but has now been able to "go back to [her] roots" with her current projects. She explained: "Weirdly, when I very first started acting in Australia, I wanted to be a serious actress. I wanted to be like Dame Judi Dench. I wanted to be really serious, it's just I had something that people liked to laugh at. And then Nicole Kidman gave me this scholarship to come to America and specialise in comedy, so that's what I did. And when I came to Hollywood, I was just like the full comedy girl but now it's kind of like almost going back to my roots as an actress and doing some serious stuff as well."
New York Times
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Juliet & Romeo' Review: Tragedy Executed as Farce
There have been scores (sorry) of musical adaptations of Shakespeare's tragedy of star-crossed lovers over the centuries. Not just operas — there's Berlioz's dramatic symphony; Prokofiev's ballet; the comedic jukebox musical on Broadway, '& Juliet,' in which the heroine leaves Romeo to die and chooses life for herself. 'Juliet and Romeo,' from the writer-director Timothy Scott Bogart and his composer-songwriter brother, Evan Kidd Bogart, is more self-serious. The movie begins, a narrator says, 'In the year 1301' when 'Italy was only an idea.' In this movie's idea of 1301, characters jumble up modern and Shakespearean language; 'Romeo, where the hell art thou,' someone from the hero's posse shouts early on. And while '& Juliet' uses pop songs, for this picture the composers Bogart and Justin Gray try to concoct tunes that sound like those of Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff. 'There's a whole lot of wrong here but we get it right, we get it right,' goes one lyric. Veteran actors including Jason Isaacs, Derek Jacobi and Rebel Wilson add spice where they're able; the costumes are colorful, and as Juliet, Clara Rugaard is fresh-faced and appealing. (As Romeo, on the other hand, Jamie Ward mostly looks like he's trying to find a boy band to join.) The Bogarts are sons of Neil Bogart, the blockbuster record exec who empowered both Kiss and Donna Summer back in the day. Watching this largely misbegotten movie (which seems to fulfill all of its aspirations with an utterly tacky ending), then, sometimes brought to mind the sardonic Steely Dan tune 'Show Biz Kids.'
