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The “Pitch Perfect” Star says one of her career missions is to collect an Oscar one day.
“I definitely want to win an Oscar,” she tells PEOPLE at the Senior Year special screening and reception held at the London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills on Tuesday. “I think comedy doesn’t get respected in the same way, so it’s not going to be for Senior Year, but maybe for one of my dramatic movies coming up. That’s definitely a big goal of mine. Producing-wise, I just love producing stuff that has really positive messages or something to say,” Wilson continues. “I’m so proud of Senior Year, of its inclusivity message and it’s a message about … high school doesn’t define you and it can just go on.”
Wilson adds “But gosh, there’s so many goals to go. But the biggest would be to win an Oscar, I think.”
Rebel Wilson — About Her New Movie “Senior Year”
Wilson has “one of those feel-good comedies” titled “Senior Year” which debuts on Netflix Friday, in the film, the Australian star plays a cheerleader who wakes up from a 20-year coma that she fell into during a cheerleading accident her senior year. Poised to be crowned prom queen, she didn’t get to finish out her high school experience and get her moment — so she decides to head back to class, even if times have changed without her.
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“Everybody else has gotten to go on and live their lives, and what? I’m supposed to just jump forward? I mean, I just found out there are eight more Fast & Furious movies!” Wilson’s character says in the trailer. “I wanna go back to school, finish my senior year. … High school was just like yesterday for me, it won’t be weird.”
Wilson rocks her stunted early-2000s wardrobe to school as she gets to know modern teen life while learning newfound confidence along the way.
On Instagram, Wilson shared the trailer and wrote, “Get ready for high school…AGAIN! So excited to share the trailer for my new film #SeniorYear coming to Netflix on May 13th!”
Rebel Wilson — On How She Became An Actress Instead Of A Lawyer
What did the universe whisper to Rebel Wilson? What signs did they show her?
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On Thursday, the “Bridesmaids” actress, 42, shared on Today what made her change from law school graduate to Hollywood star.
“I took like a gap year between high school and college and I went to Africa for the year,” she said, “got malaria really, really badly and I hallucinated that I was an actress and that I was really good.”
After her recovery, Wilson returned home and was confident acting was her new path. “I come back to Australia and said, ‘Guys I’ll go to law school as well, but I think I’ve got to pursue acting too because I had the vision.'”
Given Wilson’s lack of interest in acting beforehand, and her “studious” past, friends and family agreed the sudden change was “weird” to say the least. “People thought I was demented when I got out of the hospital,” Wilson joked.
Even though no one understood her new calling, the Bridesmaids actress kept saying “I saw it — I think I’m gonna be good.” Wilson then graduated from law school and went on to pursue acting.
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