Rebel Wilson Says Her ‘Bigger’ Size Is an Asset in Comedy

Universal(SYDNEY) — Rebel Wilson thinks her supposed “bigger” frame is an asset and something that is in no way holding her back when it comes to starring in comedies like Pitch Perfect 2.

“Bigger girls do better in comedy,” she told Australia’s site Daily Life. “I don’t know why. Maybe because people find it easier to laugh. It’s very hard to laugh at someone who’s very attractive, I think.”

The Sydney, Australia native, 28, continued: “And normally those people don’t have a great personality anyway.”

Wilson is proudest of her Pitch Perfect character Fat Amy and what’s she done by using her weight as a positive, not a negative.

“I took something that was seen as a disadvantage — no one thinks, if you’re fat, that you’re going to be an actress and everyone’s going to love you — and turned it into a positive,” she said.

Furthermore, Wilson has no plans to try and shrink down for Hollywood. She’s happy the way she is.

“I do have these dreams, like, ‘What if I just went to a health farm and lost 50 kilos? What would happen? Would it affect my career?’ But then I think, that’s never going to happen,” she added.

Fans know Wilson from hits like Bridesmaids, but she eventually would like to follow in the footsteps of Jonah Hill, who moved into more serious roles and earned Oscar nods for his later work.

“I’ll have to go super dark when I go dark. You don’t want people to think, ‘Is this Fat Amy?'” she said, referring to her Pitch Perfect character.

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