The actress says she’s been ‘un-typecast’ since losing weight.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/imago477764843-scaled.jpg” alt=”Blake Lively” title_text=”CA: Walt Disney Studios YOUNG WOMAN AND THE SEA Premiere – Arrivals Rebel Wilson arrives at the Walt Disney Studios YOUN” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Most people will know Rebel Wilson from when she burst onto the scene in Bridesmaids<\/em> in 2011 with her turn as Brynn \u2013 Annie\u2019s (Kristen Wiig) awkward English landlord with impeccable comedic timing. Who could forget her one-liner: \u2018At first I did not know it was your diary; I thought it was a very sad, handwritten book.\u2019<\/p>\n By 2012, Wilson was locked in as a comedy mainstay, appearing in What to Expect When You\u2019re Expecting<\/em>, Struck by Lightning<\/em> and Bachelorette<\/em>. In the first film, she played an eerily similar role to Brynn \u2013 a socially awkward clothes shop employee whose appearance was often an accessory to the comedy. In the second, Wilson performed another off-beat character, Malorie, who spends a portion of the film following the cast around with a video camera and asking, \u2018can I get a close up of your bicep?\u2019. The gist of Bachelorette<\/em> is not all that different either. It\u2019s about a group of \u2018troubled women\u2019 who reunite for their old high school friend Becky\u2019s (Wilson) wedding, someone they don\u2019t seem to have any respect for, and one of the biggest jokes comes from the fact Katie (Isla Fisher) and Regan (Kirsten Dunst) can both fit into Becky\u2019s wedding dress. <\/p>\n If that isn\u2019t enough to make you wince with the benefit of hindsight, we haven\u2019t even mentioned the Pitch Perfect<\/em> franchise yet, where Wilson played the not so subtle \u2018Fat Amy\u2019. Arguably the piece de resistance of crude 2010s typecasting. Speaking to Alex Cooper on the \u2018Call Her Daddy\u2019 podcast in 2023, Wilson revealed that her weight was written into her contract, and she was prohibited from losing weight until the final film wrapped in 2017. \u2018I did wait until Pitch Perfect <\/em>seemed like it was over,\u2019 she said. \u2018I couldn\u2019t lose a massive amount of weight because it was in the contracts for that movie.\u2019<\/p>\n In recent years, however, Wilson has<\/em> lost a noticeable amount of weight. In 2020, she lost more than 80lbs (36kg), attributing it to walking and a high-protein diet. The actress revealed she decided to lose weight after her fertility doctor said it would increase chance of success for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. \u2018It really hit me hard because I was living this fantastic bigger life and didn\u2019t have any serious diseases or anything,\u2019 she said. \u2018But then I have this stranger saying, \u201cLook at you, you\u2019re not healthy.\u201d\u2019 She welcomed a baby girl, Royce Lillian, with her partner Ramona Agruma via surrogate in November 2022.<\/p>\n True to form, the industry that reduced her worth to her size took issue with her decision to lose weight at first. Wilson says she received a lot of \u2018push back\u2019 from her team in Hollywood, who could not understand her motivation given that she was \u2018earning millions of dollars playing the funny fat girl\u2019.<\/p>\n True to form again, they started to treat her differently once she\u2019d lost weight. During a recent appearance on SiriusXM\u2019s Ben +1<\/em> show, Wilson was candid about the fact she\u2019s been offered \u2018more serious roles\u2019 now that she\u2019s a smaller size. \u2018I did this British Indie movie that was really serious about traumatic brain injury, and then now I\u2019m playing Lady Capulet,\u2019 as she put it. The musical drama, Juliet & Romeo<\/em>, starring Jamie Ward and Clara Rugaard, Jason Isaacs and Rupert Everett, hit cinemas on 9 May. \u2018I think I kind of untypecast myself by losing weight. I mean, I loved being the bigger, funny girl, loved playing Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect<\/em> movies. It was so cool and that still is me in so many respects, but I guess people\u2026 started to see me a bit differently.\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] Although those formative characters occupy a fond place in Wilson\u2019s memory, she also admitted she never had any intention of being known as a comedic actress \u2013 let alone typecast as a \u2018funny, fat\u2019 one. \u2018I wanted to be like Dame Judi Dench and be really serious,\u2019 she added. \u2018It\u2019s just I had something that people would like to laugh at. And then Nicole Kidman gave me this scholarship to come to America and specialise in comedy, and so that\u2019s what I did. And then when I came to Hollywood, I was just the full comedy girl. But now it\u2019s kind of like going back to my roots as an actress and doing some serious stuff.\u2019<\/p>\n Even if more serious roles have become a byproduct of Wilson\u2019s weight loss, it\u2019s hardly surprising that she wanted to lose weight. The fact there is an abundance of quotes from Wilson about her weight throughout her career is case in point \u2013 Hollywood pedals an unhealthy preoccupation with people\u2019s size and treats it as paramount. Her talent as an actress, spanning all genres both \u2018serious\u2019 and comedic, has nothing to do with her size \u2013 but that\u2019s not what the industry tells us.<\/p>\n Wilson is clearly at a point in her career where she feels like she is being taken seriously, perhaps for the first time, but discourse around her weight persists. If anything, it\u2019s admirable that she seems compelled to acknowledge this shift in opportunities is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n Her comments only prove what we already know \u2013 that Hollywood is not a fair game and there is, and has always been, a systemic bias against people who do not fit the mainstream mould. It would be great to say that 13 years after Pitch Perfect<\/em> came out we are moving in the right direction, but is that true? We might not see characters called \u2018Fat Amy\u2019 in mainstream comedies anymore, but many of those same tropes remain.<\/p>\n The uproar about Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton\u2019s \u2018mixed-weight romance\u2019 in Bridgerton<\/em> last year attempted to prove that the world is \u2018still not ready\u2019 to see a love story between people of different body types. Virgie Tovar, a \u2018leading expert on weight bias\u2019, wrote for Forbes<\/em> that the casting \u2018defied romance plotline convention\u2019, whatever that means. Fortunately, praise for the romantic pairing and support for Coughlan drowned out the negativity, but its stubborn existence leaves a sour taste.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the new era of super-skinniness ushered in by the stealthy rise of weight-loss jabs like Ozempic and Wegovy. The drugs, intended to treat people with type 2 diabetes, have essentially taken over Hollywood with everyone from Chelsea Handler, Simon Cowell, Meghan Trainor, Elon Musk and Kelly Osbourne openly prescribed, and they are creeping their way the mainstream too. Even Wilson has admitted to using Ozempic to help maintain her weight loss. An NPR<\/em> article titled, \u2018How Ozempic went from diabetes medicine to blockbuster diet drug\u2019 proves how rapid and insidious these weight loss methods are becoming. Sadly, when it comes to body type representation, it almost feels as though we are regressing.<\/p>\n Wilson is right to be honest about how her size has shaped the trajectory of her career. It\u2019s as true now as it was then. Let\u2019s hope for all our sakes that one day it finally changes.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We need to talk about Hollywood’s size bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":9404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9403"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9403\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘I think I kind of untypecast myself by losing weight’ \u2013 Rebel Wilson<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]