The Australian actor Rebel Wilson has been accused of using US court proceedings to harass and intimidate the lead actor in her directorial debut, The Deb.

The New South Wales supreme court heard on Friday that earlier this month the star of The Deb, Charlotte MacInnes, was served a deposition in the UK, demanding she appear before a hearing in California later this month.

MacInnes’s Sydney barrister, Sue Chrysanthou, told the court the deposition, which could force MacInnes to answer questions over whether she was pressured or offered inducements to withdraw her alleged allegations of sexual harassment against one of The Deb’s producers, was a tactic by Wilson designed to “harass and intimidate” her lead actor over separate defamation action being taken by MacInnes against Wilson

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