Rebel Wilson reveals strict Pitch Perfect "weight contract"
Rebel Wilson has lifted the lid on the strict rules she had to follow while she was starring in the Pitch Perfect films.
The actress spilled the beans on her weight contract while chatting candidly on the Call Her Daddy podcast, revealing that she was contractually obliged to not lose any weight in between movies.
“I couldn’t lose a massive amount of weight because I was in the contracts for that movie,” she said.
“You can’t lose, I think it’s not more than 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms), or gain more than 10 pounds.”
The 42-year-old actor added, “Yeah, you have to kind of stay at the weight. It’s in your contract.”
Rebel famously played the role of Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect trilogy, which conflicted with her plans to "get healthier" in order to improve her fertility before the age of 40.
“I went to see a fertility doctor and he was like, ‘You’d have a much better chance with fertility if you were healthier,’” she recalled. “It really hit me hard because I was living a fantastic bigger life.”
The situation made Wilson “re-examine” her lifestyle and she “slowly became healthier.”
She also shared that she wanted to lose weight so she could diversify the roles she played in her movie career.
“I was stereotyped in playing that fat funny friend, which is so hard because I love those roles. I love doing the roles. I love those characters,” she said.
“But then I did want to do more things but I felt like being the bigger girl you’re just more pigeonholed.”
The three Pitch Perfect movies came out between 2012 and 2017, before Rebel started her "year of health" in 2020 and lost more than 30 kilograms.
Wilson revealed in 2021 that her team initially didn’t want her to embark on her health journey because they believed it would have a negative impact on her acting career.
“I got a lot of pushback from my own team, actually, here in Hollywood. When I said, ‘OK, I’m going to do this year of health. I feel like I’m really gonna physically transform and change my life,’” she told the BBC at the time.
“And they were like, ‘Why? Why would you wanna do that?’ Because I was earning millions of dollars being the funny fat girl and being that person.”
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