Rebel Wilson reveals how her weight loss helped her career

Rebel Wilson is expressing her relief over how her weight loss journey "untypecast" herself in the acting industry.

The Rebel Rising: A Memoir author, 45, recently spoke with SiriusXM radio host Ben Harlum about the impact shedding those 80 pounds five years ago had on her career.

“From that point, I started getting offered more serious roles,” she revealed, citing her upcoming role as Lady Capulet in Juliet & Romeo and her role in British indie The Almond and the Seahorse.

“So I think I kind of untypecast myself by losing weight,” she confessed. “I mean, I loved being the bigger, funny girl.”

“Loved playing Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect movies. It was so cool, and that still is me in so many respects. I guess people... once I did lose weight, they started to see me a bit differently.”

She also shared that when she set out to become an actress, she envisioned more dramatic roles. “I wanted to be like Dame Judi Dench and be really serious.”

“It's just, I had something that people would like to laugh at, and then Nicole Kidman gave me this scholarship to come to America and specialize in comedy, and so that's what I did,” she explained. “Then when I came to Hollywood, I was just 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,” she said.

In March 2024, Wilson admitted to briefly using Ozempic, an FDA-approved type 2 diabetes drug, which she said she took for maintenance after losing weight.

“Someone like me could have a bottomless appetite for sweets, so I think those drugs can be good," the actress said, before noting that she no longer takes Ozempic.