Collider have a really good, original interview with Isla and Gillian Bell. As well as Godmothered, they also talk about which TV series they’d love to guest-star on (Curb Your Enthusiasm), which movie they’ve seen the most (Spinal Tap), first movie crush (Jason Bateman), and not worrying about box office numbers.
Category: Career
Florida Film Critics Circle honour Isla’s performance in “The Beach Bum”
Congratulations to Isla who was named as a joint ‘runner-up’ for Best Supporting Actress by the Florida Film Critics Circle, for her performance in The Beach Bum!
Best Supporting Actress:
Laura Dern, Marriage StoryRunners up: Margot Robbie, Bombshell and Isla Fisher, The Beach Bum
— Florida Film Critics (@FLFilmCritics) December 23, 2019
90’s flashback – CITV’s ‘The Scoop’ trailer
Here’s a fun flashback – a trailer for Isla’s 90’s TV presenting job on CITV’s ‘The Scoop’:
Isla invited to join The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy Invites 928 New Members, from Daniel Kaluuya to Sufjan Stevens
In an astonishing move to swell the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences membership ranks, a record 928 artists and executives from 59 countries have been invited to join this year. The branches have increasingly actively sought eligible people to become Academy members, but the Board of Governors makes the final call; this year, they did not invite Kobe Bryant although he won an Oscar for animated short “Dear Basketball.”
Clearly, people of color (38 percent) and women (49 percent) are among the many invites, as the Academy continues to address its long-term white-male dominance. As always, actors make up the largest branch of the Academy, but many new members also come from overseas.
In 2017, the Academy invited 744 new members.
Seventeen Oscar winners are among the new invited members (Melissa Etheridge) and 92 Oscar nominees (Daniela Vega, Yance Ford, Timothee Chalamet, Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon). Nine of the 17 branches invited more women than men. The percentage of women in the Academy has risen from 25 percent in 2015 to 31 percent in 2018. For people of color, the needle moved from 8 percent in 2015 to 16 percent. Not all invitees will accept. (Ryan Coogler, for example, declined.) The new total assuming most accept their invites will be about 8200.
Isla Fisher – “Nocturnal Animals,” “Wedding Crashers”
‘Crocodile Dundee’ Tourism Australian advert
During the recent US sporting event Superbowl, a trailer was shown for a new Crocodile Dundee movie starring a host of Aussie stars, including Isla. It was soon revealed, though, that this was not a movie trailer, but a clever new advertisement for Australia itself! The tourism campaign shows US actor Danny McBride travelling to the country and meeting Chris Hemsworth, and has cameos from Isla, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie, and other Australian stars.
The greatest name in the outback is back in the outback! Only this time, Dundee isn’t a Hollywood movie. It’s a giant tourism ad for Australia.
Thirty years after Crocodile Dundee first introduced the world to the land down under, Chris Hemsworth and Danny McBride bring the iconic Aussie franchise back as they embark on the trip of a lifetime. And while the film’s plot may not be real, Danny’s adventure through Australia’s outback, white sand beaches, gorgeous wineries and bustling cities are what truly await every visitor.
Come soon, mates. There’s nothing like Australia!
Find out more at the official campaign website dundeemovie.com; there are more videos there as well as on the Tourism Australian You Tube channel. AdForum.com has some information on the campaign too. Find out about how the project came about in the video interview with Chris Hemsworth further down this post.
Crocodile Dundee inspires new $36m American tourism push.
Today’s Super Bowl (the Big Game), the most watched television broadcast in the United States, kicked off a new A$36 million marketing push by Tourism Australia, aimed at supercharging the value of American tourism Down Under.
Supported by Qantas, American Airlines and Wine Australia and featuring appearances from some of Australia’s biggest celebrities, the campaign is the largest Tourism Australia has run in the United States since Paul Hogan’s famous Come Say G’Day ads more than 30 years ago. Celebrities featured include Chris and Liam Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman, Paul Hogan, Margot Robbie, Ruby Rose and Russell Crowe as well as American actor Danny McBride.
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Isla on BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends
During her time in Edinburgh at the weekend, Isla was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s show Loose Ends. She chatted about her Marge book series and the reasons for writing it, writing with her Mum in the 90’s, and her career including Nocturnal Animals, Grimsby and Wedding Crashers.
Listen to the full show here , and find photos in our Gallery.
Clive Anderson and Tom Allen are joined by Isla Fisher, Selina Thompson and Dave Johns for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy from the Edinburgh Festivals.
Superstar Story Writer, Isla Fisher, on Marge In Charge
Superstar Story Writer, Isla Fisher, on Marge In Charge
She’s the superstar behind the ‘Marge’ books. As an actress, she’s played hundreds of varying roles. In this insightful clip, she tells Ore Oduba what it’s like to inhabit different characters in your head…
Isla on Loose Women
Isla appeared on UK morning show Loose Women today, to promote Marge and the Great Train Rescue. She chatted about her upbringing, her family and husband, why she loves books, and ‘tapping into her inner idiot’. Watch a clip below: