Rita Wilson reveals what A-listers books shes…
She’s not judging these celebs by their e-book covers.
Rita Wilson is back on Broadway in “Celebrity Autobiography,” where a rotating solid of well-known faces playfully reads excerpts from the memoirs of A-listers — and finds the humorous in their phrases.
Wilson has met all the ladies whose tell-alls she’s spoofing — Elizabeth Taylor, Pamela Anderson and Celine Dion — and said she understands why they felt compelled to spill the tea in the pages of their life tales.
Rita Wilson is starring in “Celebrity Autobiography” on Broadway. Steven Sebring
“In all of these people’s cases, there is and was a thirst to hear about their private lives,” she told The Post forward of the show’s May 18 opening evening.
“We cannot fault anyone for writing these books at a time in their lives where they were very young … and taking a huge paycheck and saying, ‘Sure, I’ll write my autobiography, what do you need?’”
The actress and singer, who is married to Tom Hanks, harassed that she’s in no means downplaying their skills by poking enjoyable at their books.
“I’ve met all of them. And this does not take away any of the fandom I have for these people,” she said.
Wilson, 69, gushed over being in the presence of Taylor at a dinner in Hollywood hosted by a studio exec.
“Elizabeth Taylor, I actually had dinner with, which was one of the most incredible evenings of my life because she was so accessible and very much a woman who absolutely knew who she was and was incredibly authentic,” she said.
“She did not play the diva and she did not play the movie star. She was just an actor at dinner with other actors.”
Wilson had dinner with Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, and called it “one if the most incredible evenings of my life.” Getty Images
She met Celine Dion backstage during the Grammy winner’s first residency at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas — and said she’s in awe of the strength she’s shown during her battle with the uncommon neurological disorder, Stiff-person syndrome.
“She’s just an incredible woman in every way, also so courageous, so strong,” said Wilson, who just launched her sixth studio album, “Sound of a Woman.”
“It was just so incredible what she’s going through and what she’s been through. I just love her.”
Wilson met Celine Dion, whom she called “so courageous,” backstage at Caesar’s Palace. Getty Images
The Hollywood native met Anderson in Malibu “during her Kid Rock days.”
“She’s really nice. She’s smart, she’s brave and courageous. An amazing woman, an incredible mother, very sweet, very present,” she said.
Wilson, who shares a function in common with Anderson — since they both performed Roxy Hart in “Chicago” on Broadway — respects the fact that the “Baywatch” actress has advanced from her intercourse image standing.
“What I love about Pamela is that she hasn’t turned her back on who she was. But she’s a so much more fully integrated person than, sometimes what I think media creates about particularly women and who they are,” she said.
“And in her case, she’s a sex symbol, so that is very limiting. And I love that she’s become more fully herself in at least how we’re perceiving her in the world.”
Pamela Anderson and Wilson both performed Roxy Hart in “Chicago” on Broadway. GC Images
“Celebrity Autobiography,” whose solid consists of notable names from Gayle King to Ralph Macchio, was off-Broadway at the Triad Theater before getting promoted to the Great White Way — and will likely be working at the Shubert Theatre until Aug. 16.
Wilson herself has never written a memoir — and doesn’t have any plans to.
“Oh, no, I probably would not,” she said, laughing. “I’m a very private person in a very public profession.”
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