Culture May 25, 2023

Rebel Wilson announces her upcoming directorial debut

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Rebel Wilson has announced her feature directorial debut.

The "Pitch Perfect" actress revealed at the Cannes Film Festival Wednesday that she'll be directing an upcoming musical comedy, called "The Deb."

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Sharing more about the upcoming project on Instagram, Wilson wrote, "The movie is called The Deb and it's an original Australian musical about a teen girl going to her debutante ball in a country town."

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"I can't wait to film this later this year in Australia 🇦🇺 and share it with you all!" she continued.

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Natalie Abbott, Rebel Wilson, Charlotte MacInnes and Stevie Jean attend a party hosted by Rebel Wilson, Unigram, Access Entertainment and Warner Music to celebrate the launch of Rebel's forthcoming film and directorial debut "The Deb" during the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2023 in Cannes, France.
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She also shared a photo of herself with the film's stars, Natalie Abbott, Stevie Jean and Charlotte MacInnes, writing alongside it, "Look out for these Aussie ladies who are about to CRUSH IT!!"

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Rebel Wilson stays behind as cast members (L to R) Natalie Abbott, Charlotte MacInnes and Stevie Jean jump into the sea at a party hosted by Rebel Wilson, Unigram, Access Entertainment and Warner Music to celebrate the launch of Rebel's forthcoming film and directorial debut "The Deb" during the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 24, 2023 in Cannes, France.

Speaking to Variety at the event announcing the project, Wilson shared, "My skill set has always been musical comedy. From my first productions as a playwright, they were all little musical comedies where I wrote the music for those ones back in the day."

"It's just so my genre that I thought, out of the other movies that I was offered, this one is a thing [I'm familiar with]."