Posted on 05/23/2015 12:51:24 PM PDT by drewh
Pitch Perfect 2″ actress Rebel Wilson came under fire earlier this week after an Australian tabloid published a report exposing her real age 36, not 29. She responded in the best way she knew how with humor and deflected the accusations by explaining that she was actually a 100 year old mermaid.
At the time of this first revelation, Salons Rachel Kramer Bussel commented that this type of thing was just part and parcel with the experience of being an actor in Hollywood. Creating a mythology is just a way to work your way up, she went on to say inventing new names, backgrounds, family histories and, yes, ages.
And this saga apparently continues: TIME dug deeper into Wilsons records and found that she did, in fact, lie about her name, background and family history as well.
According to the news outlet, Wilsons real name is Melanie Elizabeth Bownds, despite having told The Australian Womens Weekly last year that Rebel was her birth name. The report also goes on to find that Wilson did not grow up in the ghetto, like she told Ellen DeGeneres in 2013; she, instead, attended the upper-crust Tara Anglican School and lived in the comfortable Castle Hill area from 2000 to 2003.
But why get up in arms at all, really? It is one of the most baffling aspects of our love-hate relationship with celebrity culture. We throw billions of dollars every year at an industry that sells us the most pleasant fictions, then get outraged when it lies to us. Rebel Wilson and that, as far as were concerned, is her real name is only doing what weve asked her to do, sell us the most pleasing, mass-consumable version of herself, and isnt that what we demand from Hollywood anyway?
Yep. Women lie about their age (my mom did) and celebrities lie about their backgrounds.
This rates a 0.5 on my 1-10 outrage meter.
Many of the iconic stars of Hollywood history changed their names, altered their ages and their pasts.
Who cares? She is an entertainer, not an elected official or an officer of the court.
Her three or four lines in Bridesmaids stole the entire film.
She’s Australian so it’s ok.
It’s a good thing she went to Hollywood because the island was sinking...
That Anna Kendrick is cute, but I wouldn’t watch those films. As for Wilson, not my thing. I’d like to be able to pick up my g/f, not land in the hospital with a herniated disk.
I am 66, but some days I feel like I must be in my 90’s, yet my wife tells me I act like a 5 year old. In many of my dreams I am around 10 and in others I am in my very handsome 20’s.
Much of life is little more than an ever changing illusion.
Women have been lying about their ages forever. Of course, guys have been lying about something else for just as long. ;>)
So fat girls lie, too?
We need to care about some fat, idiotic, no talent she-slob why?
Who comes up with this phlegm?
Damn, and I thought I was tough on fatsos. This thread is BRUTAL so far. (Must keep reading LOL!)
You may not know this: Jack Benny was older than 39.
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