Isla Fisher's comedic roles influenced by husband Sacha Baron Cohen
Isla Fisher was persuaded by her husband Sacha Baron Cohen to try comedy.
The Australian actress started her career on TV soap Home and Away, before embarking on a Hollywood path. Up until 2005’s Wedding Crashers, 40-year-old Isla had stuck to mostly dramatic roles, but after meeting her now-husband, British funnyman Sacha, the redhead decided to try something new.
“For some reason I’d thought I had to be serious to be taken seriously as an actress,” she admitted to Britain’s Metro newspaper. “But I got an audition for Wedding Crashers and it was the first time I didn’t hold back. I delivered a bipolar nymphomaniac and the casting director started to laugh and it felt really good. I thought, I can just tap into my inner idiot and get paid for it.”
Since then Isla has made audiences laugh as ditzy Rebecca in Confessions of a Shopaholic and alongside Rebel Wilson and Kirsten Dunst in Bachelorette.
“There have always been funny women in movies,” she continued. “Then a film such as Bridesmaids comes out and everyone goes: ‘Wow, this is a new thing.’ But actually it’s been there all the time.”
Along with her acting career, Isla is also a busy mom-of-three and a budding children’s book author. As well as her debut kid’s novel, Marge in Charge, which is out now, she also has two major films in production.
After a bit of a break from the big screen she can next be seen in Keeping Up with the Joneses in October (16), before starring in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, out in November (16).
“I’m not in that bracket of hugely successful actresses who get offered amazing parts all the time, which is fine by me because it means I get to stay home with my family,” she smiled.
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