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Hello, I'm Lauren Laverne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is the actor and writer Rebel Wilson.
She burst onto the Hollywood scene 13 years ago, stealing the show with her breakout performance in bridesmaids before taking center stage in the internationally successful pitch perfect trilogy.
Her comedy Persona was outrageous, her confidence infectious, and her body positive attitude hailed as a refreshing change on screen.
She was a rebel by name, but perhaps not by nature.
She grew up in the suburbs of Sydney and was deputy head girl at school, where her first love was mathematics.
She was so painfully shy, her mother dragged her to drama class in an attempt to bring her out of her shell.
Luckily, it worked.
She says, if youve got the ability to make people laugh, you have an inherent sense of power.
Sometimes men feel uncomfortable with women having that power, but of course, women have always been funny and talented.
Maybe that's scary.
Rebel Wilson, welcome to Desert Island Discs.
Hi.
It's great to be here.
Great to have you.
So let's start with that sense of power then.