{"id":129500,"date":"2025-11-12T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129500\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:14:07","slug":"rebel-wilsons-girl-group-casts-newcomers-in-films-pop-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/129500\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Wilson&#8217;s &#8216;Girl Group&#8217; Casts Newcomers in Film&#8217;s Pop Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/rebel-wilson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rebel-wilson\" data-tag=\"rebel-wilson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebel Wilson<\/a> has found her \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/girl-group\/\" id=\"auto-tag_girl-group\" data-tag=\"girl-group\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Girl Group<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAfter auditioning thousands of hopefuls across the U.S., Wilson has revealed the seven newcomers who will make up the titular pop band, Xplode, in her upcoming comedy: Ana Yi Puig (Gainesville, Fla.), Bailey Stender (Duluth, Minn.), Chabely Ponce (Miami, Fla.), Daniela Cuoso (Miami, Fla.), Lilah Pate (Wilmington, N.C.), Mia Kaplan (Los Angeles, Calif.) and Miracle Washington (North Augusta, S.C.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt was so fun to unearth such amazing talent in the U.S.,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cThey\u2019re all quadruple threats in this movie in that they sing, dance, act and have to be funny. I\u2019m proud of them and can\u2019t wait for audiences to see their brilliant work!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGirl Group,\u201d which Wilson is writing, directing and starring in for Live Nation Studios and Future Artists Entertainment, just wrapped production in the U.K. The heartfelt comedy follows a pop diva, played by Wilson, \u201cwho gets kicked out of her own girl group and seizes the chance to stage a comeback by coaching a group of misfit teen girls for a major record label audition,\u201d according to the film\u2019s synopsis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe ensemble cast also includes Jennifer Coolidge, Nicole Scherzinger, Randall Park, Sheridan Smith, Jamie Lee O\u2019Donnell, Guz Khan, Jolene and Loren Gray, as well as Pussycat Doll Ashley Roberts, Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm and All Saints\u2019 Shaznay Lewis, who will form girlband Girlfriends alongside Wilson\u2019s character. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cGirl Group\u201d is produced by Wilson under her Camp Sugar banner, alongside Matt Williams of Future Artists Entertainment and executive produced by Live Nation Studios.\u00a0Chris Scott (\u201cWicked\u201d) serves as choreographer.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebel Wilson has found her \u201cGirl Group.\u201d After auditioning thousands of hopefuls across the U.S., Wilson has revealed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,77678,85,46,409,41491],"class_list":{"0":"post-129500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-girl-group","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-rebel-wilson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}