
Home and Away actress Isla Fisher has spoken about her new movie and said it allowed her to fulfill a comic dream in her performance.
The Australian actress stars as Becky Bloomwood in ‘Confessions of a Shopaholic’ and says she achieved a long-held acting ambition when she got to do dance in one scene, saying that she loves dancing but has never had the opportunity to perform a dance in the form of acting before.
Isla explained: “In regard to the fan dance, it’s always been a comic dream of mine to attempt to seduce a man doing a dance that’s actually repulsive. So the opportunity of doing that arose during this movie and I embraced it and I really enjoyed every minute of it.”
The dance wasn’t choreographed, and Isla was embarrassed to admit, that the dance was her own moves. She particularly enjoyed working opposite Hugh Dancy on the movie because he allowed her to play even heavier on her comic side – which she performs perfectly, and comes across as a very loveable, cute yet funny character.
She added: “I think Hugh’s a wonderful dancer and what I really loved about Hugh is that he came to the movie and took it seriously as if he was in a dramatic movie, which was so important. As a result, he played the greatest straight man and it gave me, playing Becky Bloomwood, somewhere to go and to be more outrageous. The comedy was grounded in reality because of him.”

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