Rebel Wilson, the 28-year-old Australian actress and stand-up comedian, is starting to get a better understanding that TV in the United States is a bit different than what she is used to. And she’s not too happy about it.
The Super Fun Night actress recently sat down with EW and spoke about her recent unexpected experiences with TV censorship in America. “This is my first foray into American television, and I guess what I didn’t realize is…[the list of] what you can’t say is huge.”
Rebel added, “There was always at least five minutes cut from every episode of what I thought was super hilarious stuff, but what they deemed inappropriate for family television, whether it was the words I was using or the intention.”
An example of what has been caught is a scene in last week’s episode which when first taped included a flashback scene to a time that Wilson’s character gorged on pizza on a lonely Valentine’s Day and then suffered an “attack of irritable bowel syndrome.” “[The character] was wearing a beret at the time and I had to go into this alleyway and sh– into the beret,” Rebel said about the scene which was sadly cut.