Thoughts on Rebel Wilson’s claims of asshole/inappropriate behavior

i wonder if she annoyed him first in a any way and he was picking at her or maybe trying to be fun with her

or was he just trying to get her to stick her finger there, and to be naked, to make the film more outrageous and off the cuff like one of his borat or bruno films?

The two incidents mentioned in the Buzzfeed article are (1) that Cohen was pressuring/badgering Wilson into doing a nude scene, and (2) that Cohen wanted her to stick her finger up his butt for another scene in the movie.

(1) A lot of my opinion depends no the timbre of Cohen's pestering. If it was teasing, or just asking, that's very different than pressuring or threatening. I need more details to make a full assessment. Ultimately, I think if a nude scene was required for the film, this should have been brought up during the auditioning/casting process and agreed upon before casting Wilson. If Wilson didn't know about the scene beforehand, or it was a gag created later, Cohen's repeated asking is less acceptable. If she knew it was a possibility going in, she's the jerk.

Ultimately, they got a body double, to my knowledge, nobody has blacklisted Wilson because of this, and there is no story of retaliation on-set, so it sounds like Cohen just wanted her to go nude for a bit and asked her until it was annoying. That makes him a bit of a pest, but not beyond the pale.

(2) Cohen is an improviser and a transgressive comic. This honestly sounds like some of his wacky Borat/Bruno/Ali G ideas. It sounds like he asked her to do it and she said no. Is this a big deal? It shouldn't be. I do think the gag he wanted her to do was absolutely something most people would turn down, but again, this is his style. It's not like Cohen didn't do crazy things throughout the movie and in his other films. He is willing to cross those lines, so asking somebody else to cross those lines isn't an immediate a-hole possibility.

However, if this was a fetish thing of his and he was trying to get Wilson to do this because he was perverse, that's different. If either/both of these incidents was him trying to move in some real-life sexual capacity, instead of in pursuit of his bouffant comedy style, then he's an a-hole as-asserted.

Ultimately, I think we need more detail to fully decide.

PS
I do think it's stupid and scummy to try and block her book, though.

Sounds like women are EQUALS! Yay Womanhood! Boss Girl! Oh wait they are treating me like they treat their male friends? That is sexist.

Who'd be inappropriate toward Rebel Wilson? Maybe she's mad that he wasn't.

Who on Earth watched Borat, saw some of the insane things he did/had done TO him, and could Ever be surprised he asked an actor to do something outrageous?

I wasn't there; I don't know, but if I HAD to guess, I'd side with "Sacha doing whatever he needed for the movie" on this. FFS, the man had a fat guy's TAINT on his Face; is anyone shocked he asked someone else to do something nutty?

Is Rebel Wilson a bloke? He looks like one.