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Jennifer Coolidge and Nicole Scherzinger are joining Rebel Wilson’s Girl Group.
On Friday, Oct. 24, Wilson confirmed in an Instagram post she shared with Coolidge, 64, and Scherzinger, 47, that the White Lotus star and former Pussycat Dolls member will star alongside her in Girl Group. The casting news a month after Deadline reported that Wilson, 45, would write, direct, produce and star in the new musical comedy.
Wilson, 45, shared a photo of herself posing with Coolidge and Scherzinger with a soundstage in the background while confirming the casting news. “I guess the pussycat’s outta the bag! #GirlGroup,” she wrote in a caption.
“😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥 Omg! I soooo can’t wait 😍,” Wilson’s wife Ramona Agruma wrote in a comment on her post.
According to the The Hollywood Reporter, details on Coolidge and Scherzinger’s roles in the movie were not immediately made clear.
Deadline and THR additionally report that another former Pussycat Doll, Ashley Roberts, and Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm will appear in the movie.
Girl Group follows Wilson as a pop star who is kicked off her group’s reunion tour and sentenced to community service by a court. “She seizes the chance to stage a comeback by coaching a group of misfit teen girls for a major record label audition, only to push them too far, forcing her to confront her toxic industry — and her own streak of self-destruction,” the movie’s synopsis reads, per multiple outlets.
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Wilson first shared that she was directing a new movie in an Instagram post she made on Sept. 7. The first film she wrote and directed, The Deb, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024 but has not been released due to a series of lawsuits between her and the movie’s producers. When Wilson announced Girl Group was in production, she wrote, “I hope the powers that be let this movie come out!”
Girl Group does not have a release date.
