Rebel Wilson dropped by the Today Show on Thursday to promote her upcoming comedy film Senior Year.
The 42-year-old Australian actress looked vibrant in a fuzzy yellow dress and jacket as she chatted about the high school comedy, before returning later in the broadcast in a gorgeous pink suit.
The comedian joked about her history of pulling off pranks on the teachers and other students at her high school, which helped prepare her for her role in Senior Year.
Talk show circuit: Rebel Wilson, 42, looked glamorous in a neon yellow dress and jacket as she arrived at the Today Show in New York City on Thursday. She chatted about how her history as a prankster influenced her high school comedy Senior Year
Rebel stars in the film as the cheer captain Stephanie Conway, who suffers a head injury ahead of her senior prom that puts her in a two-decade coma.
She awakens to find that the world — and her own body — have changed considerably. Despite now being 37, she re-enrolls in school to graduate on her own terms.
The Today Show's Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie initially sat down with Rebel to chat about the roots of her role and how being a prankster
'I was very studious,' she said of her school years, 'But also I liked to do a lot of pranks.'
Take two: She stars in Senior Year as the cheer captain Stephanie Conway, who suffers a head injury ahead of her senior prom that puts her in a two-decade coma. She decides to re-enroll when she awakens at age 37
Mixed bag: 'I was very studious,' she said of her school years, 'But also I liked to do a lot of pranks.' She joked that she would break into the teachers' lounge and 'steal their cookies'
She joked that she would break into the teachers' lounge and 'steal their cookies,' though her crime spree ended when she was 'literally' caught with her hand in the cookie jar.
Another time, she 'locked a teacher in a cupboard,' and she egged other teachers at her all-girls boarding school into threatening to expel her for smoking, though she alerted them afterward that she had only been puffing on a fake cigarette.
Following her high school stint, Rebel went on to get dual degrees in the Arts and Laws, though she ended up focusing on the former.
She admitted that she knew she would be an actress even as she continued to get her law degree after taking a gap year trip to Africa.
Fantasy: Rebel admitted that she only wanted to be an actress after she contract malaria on an Africa trip and
