Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen has hit back at claims he was an "a**hole" towards Rebel Wilson on the set of 2016 film The Brothers Grimsby.
The Australian actress had claimed an actor she called out for bad behaviour on the film's set in her upcoming memoir Rebel Rising was attempting to stop the book's release
On March 25 Wilson named Cohen in an Instagram post and said she would not be "bullied or silenced by high priced lawyers or PR crisis managers".
A spokesperson for Cohen has denied the claims.
"While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby," the spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
Cohen and Wilson played a husband and wife in the 2016 comedy which also featured Cohen's Australian wife Isla Fisher.
Wilson had earlier teased a chapter of her memoir that revealed the reason for her "no a**holes policy" in Hollywood.
"So when I came to Hollywood people were like, 'yeah I have a no a**hole policy, means I don't work with assholes'," she said in an Instagram video on March 16.
"I was like, yeah that sounds sensible, logical, but then it really sunk in what they were meaning by that - older people in the industry - because I worked with a massive asshole and yeah, now I definitely have a no assholes policy."
The memoir is due for release on April 3 in Australia.
