Rebel Wilson was "seen differently" by Hollywood as soon as she lost weight

Speaking on SiriusXM, she said: "When I lost a lot of weight in 2020, I lost like 70 or 80 pounds, from that point, I started getting offered more serious roles. I did this British indie movie that was really serious about traumatic brain injury and now I'm playing Lady Capulet [in 'Juliet and Romeo'] so I kind of un-typecast myself by losing weight, and I loved being the bigger, funny girl.

"I loved playing Fat Amy in the 'Pitch Perfect' movies, it was so cool. That still is me in so many respects, but I guess, once I did lose weight, people started to see me a bit differently."

The 'Senior Year' star recalled that when she initially stared out in her career, she did want to be more of a "serious actress" but was able to get her foot in the door via her comedic abilities but has now been able to "go back to [her] roots" with her current projects.

She explained: "Weirdly, when I very first started acting in Australia, I wanted to be a serious actress. I wanted to be like Dame Judi Dench. I wanted to be really serious, it's just I had something that people liked to laugh at. And then Nicole Kidman gave me this scholarship to come to America and specialise in comedy, so that's what I did. And when I came to Hollywood, I was just like the full comedy girl, but now it's kind of like almost going back to my roots as an actress and doing some serious stuff as well."