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Rebel Wilson's body double claims she 'balked' at a lewd request made of her on set of the 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen film The Brothers Grimsby.
Burlesque dancer Jodi Le Roux, 42, told DailyMail.com that she was shocked when asked to sit on a female extra's face for a crude scene that ended up being cut from the movie.
She says she was told to straddle the woman wearing nothing but underwear and a British flag and she responded, 'You want me to do what?'
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, she also claims she was asked to streak in front of other extras without a modesty cover to shield her privates.
She spoke out after the Australian actress Wilson, 44, accused Cohen, 52, of trying to make her shoot nude scenes and telling her to 'stick a finger up his a**' while filming.
Jodi Le Roux, 43, was Rebel Wilson's body double on the 2016 Sacha Baron Cohen film The Brothers Grimsby film. The pair are pictured on set
Wilson, 44, accused Cohen, 52, of telling her to 'stick her finger up his a**' while filming The Brothers Grimsby
Le Roux was Wilson's body double for a scene where she runs nude on the field of a soccer stadium. She claims she was asked to streak in front of other extras without a modesty cover to shield her privates
Le Roux said, 'On the second day, there was an alternate ending they wanted to film. It was with another stunt double, a woman.
'When they told me what it was, my reaction was, 'You want me to do what?'
'My concern was having to sit on her because she was tiny.
'I said, ''I am anxious about this. This feels uncomfortable to me because I want to know that she feels comfortable.''
'Also, it wasn't what I was told I would be doing. I was told I would be doing the streaking scene and the streaking scene only,'
Le Roux says it all came on suddenly and it wasn't what she was expecting to film.
'In the end I agreed to do it, but I had to make peace with the fact I was sitting on this woman's face,' she said.
The crude ending to the 2016 secret agent comedy was eventually ditched.
However, Le Roux says scriptwriters toyed with the idea of having Wilson's character, overweight mom-of-11 Dawn Grobham, suffocating evil Rhonda George - played by Penelope Cruz - by smothering her with her backside.
Wilson's character was supposed to be naked except for a British flag while performing the move in a stairwell at Cape Town Stadium.
Wilson and Penelope Cruz left it to their body doubles - Le Roux and another unnamed South African woman – to shoot the scene, which took an hour to film.
Le Roux is pictured with actor Ricky Tomlinson. She tells DailyMail.com she was told to straddle a woman wearing nothing but underwear and a British flag
Le Roux says scriptwriters toyed with the idea of having Wilson's character, overweight mom-of-11 Dawn Grobham, suffocating evil Rhonda George - played by Penelope Cru(pictured) - by smothering her with her backside
Le Roux had earlier been asked to run naked across a field while pretending to be Wilson.
She said, 'The streaking was fine, but the second scene was the bit I balked out. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do it. I had a chat with the other woman to make sure she was ok.
'She said, ''Babe it's a film and this is what we do as stunt doubles and body doubles – go for it.''
'I was like, ''Are you sure?'' She said, ''Go for it!'''
