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October 23, 2025 / 53:02

This episode features actress Isla Fisher, discussing her career, her new movie Now You See Me, Now You Don't, and her experiences in Hollywood.

Isla Fisher shares insights about her role in the upcoming film Now You See Me, Now You Don't, highlighting her co-stars like Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson. She describes the film as a fun heist movie that brings back the original cast.

The conversation touches on Fisher's early career, including her breakout role in Wedding Crashers, and how it changed her trajectory in Hollywood. She reflects on the challenges and joys of acting, especially in comedy.

Fisher also discusses her Australian roots, the tight-knit community of Australian actors in Hollywood, and her experiences with various directors and co-stars. She shares humorous anecdotes about her time on set and the camaraderie among the cast.

Throughout the episode, Fisher and the hosts engage in light-hearted banter, touching on personal stories, her family life, and her thoughts on the film industry.

TL;DR

Isla Fisher discusses her new film, career highlights, and experiences in Hollywood with hosts Dana Carvey and David Spade.

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Wooing. Wooing would be too strong, but just a little pri. No, it was right into I'll pick you up at 4.
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And she was like, "Who is this?" 4:00 early for sex. Feels like we should keep the momentum moving forward. We've done
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the accent. I don't want to run this podcast, guys. I'm too hung over. My mom would obviously given many.
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Oh my god. I'm just kidding. She's like, I hope you don't cut your line out and then just leave me with that quote. That'd be a good idea.
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You could just throw me out. All right, Dana, we've got Isa Fischer, the lovely and talented Isa Fisher.
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Everyone likes her. All the giries like Isa. Um never hear a bad word about her.
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Yeah. Great. Started with starting with, you know, Wedding Crashers for most people.
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Mhm. Uh from Australia, uh and comes out and does great. She's got Now You See Me
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coming out. Is it called Now You See Me Now You Don't. Now You Don't. It's the third. She was
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installment. Now she's back. She's got Woody Harelson, Jesse Eisenberg,
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Mark Ruffalo, Mark Ruffalo from T Griller about all these people and uh
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she really cracks under pressure. Yeah. No, she was she's the type that you
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could tell she's pretty much like she is uh you would think upbeat, fun,
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busting our balls a little bit and she was pretty kind. I pulled out an Australian accent which I go in and out
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of and she was very very kind about it. I I think it was a little cartoony but she loves Paul Hogan and she we really
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get into the small community of Australia and all these superstar actors and performers. Yeah.
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She was boys. Yeah. And she stole your notes and
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I always let the guests look at my notes because they get a confused look like what? Wait, you guys are preparing for
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me? We always prepare a little bit. It doesn't seem like it. We try. Doesn't seem we Yeah, we try to make it
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look easy, but it ain't easy. It's so [ __ ] hard. But here she is. The lovely Isa Fisher.
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Mhm. Hi, Bobby. Hi, I'm David.
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I've never met you before. I'll be the lead interviewer. David. I'm Dana. Dana. Nice to meet you.
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Did you meet Dana ever? I don't know. I'm a shoot. I'm We're opposites. She's a man about talent and I just stay home.
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And you stay home. Oh, are you a man a woman about town? I am now. I used to be a woman. It's fun to do press on a movie and
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travel around. It is. The the lighting is good, guys. I like this for the ladies. Yes. You look
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Are you lit? Are you okay with I'm staying with my friend right now? And I was like, I'm doing a podcast. She
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goes, do you remember when you tried to set me up with him and then apparently you texted her just I'll pick you up at
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You texted her just like I'll pick you up at 4:00. Nothing else. Not like hi or David.
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Me? Yeah, we are not starting with this. This is not possible.
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Before we started and it's almost over. That doesn't It will be over after this blasphemy.
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Hey man, it's already on Daily Mail. It's already on Daily Mail. It's pick you up at 4:00.
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Who was it? Chelsea work fast. No, it was not. I'm going to switch mine on too. Don't say who it was, but I'm not going
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to say who. I'm just going to get clear here for a second. Have you guys ever met before? I didn't meet her. I met her
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a lot many times. And she's always I just said, "Have you guys ever met?" I heard and I said,
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"I've been married for 23 years. I only just got uh Yeah." So, no, we You only got what?
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You know, separated, divorced. You feel happy? Not happy, but probably you're friends with Nicole Kidman now.
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Maybe she's going through something. You You are really really really uh shocked. I have
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left a message. which I have not um connected yet, but I don't really want to comment on that because there are
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children involved. I will. You know, I did I left a like on one of her Instagram pictures and I thought that was a lot. I thought that just
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shows thinking about her. Yes. Yeah. Tough times to be in the public eye.
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I luckily I stay underground. Literally, this was a
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Yeah, it's really great. This is like a doomsday shelter. Yeah, it is. This is the apocalypse. It's when you get a place.
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By the way, this is a good bombshell. This is fun. We're in here. We've got Diet Coke. We've got a few books. We got a Sandler.
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It is like a bomb shelter in a little bit with good lighting. Well, we didn't want to overly bright it
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up because they said, uh, I tell girls I'm 6'4. I'm really 64. And
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that's that's my Tinder app. I go, "Oh, they messed that up." Wait, you're on Tinder?
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No, I Let's be honest. H. Uh, anyway, Isa, I'm glad I told someone
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I meet him at 4. I don't even know what I do at 4. You just said I'll pick you up at 4.
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Well, wait a minute. I'm sorry. I missed the setup show. She said she's going to set me up with someone. I I said, "I've got a lovely friend that
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I thought would be nice cuz you were single at the time." And he was like, "Cool, sure." And so then I gave I guess Digit over
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anticipating there'd be some back and sort of something some kind of like wooing. wooing would
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be too strong, but just a little pri. No, it was right into I'll pick you up at four. And she was like, "Who is this?" I
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didn't know you were. And I said, "I'm sorry." I meant I'll pick you up for sex
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because I'm tired of what we've been doing so far. Which is never having met on Daily Mail
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right now. Disc. Oh, where's my notes, Heather?
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Well, god dang it. We've We've done a lot of research. I carry my notes for an hour before you
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get here and then they it starts and I Are they handwritten those notes? That's intimidating. Yeah. Here, you can take a look.
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Can I just read off? Read off. Heather, go through all 28,000 ft. Looking at I'm just going to start off
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by saying that there's no C in my name. It's Fisher. F I S H E R. Oh, I
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interview Eddie Fisher. Yeah, Dana, she's seen enough.
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Yeah. Uh Isla. I know that part. Yeah, you do. I was your first name. You You were born
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in Somalia. You were born in uh Scotland. Is that wrong?
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Keep going. It's going to be Scotland was the one I heard. No, there's some weird place you can before Australia.
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Oman. Where is Oman, guys? It's a test. It's a geography test.
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It's in the Middle East. Clue. Oh, close to Saudi Arabia. You know it. North of Dubai, Qatar, east of Dubois.
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south of Iran where where gingers where short Scottish gingers end up being born.
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So what is your current accent? What would you describe? What would you describe yourself? Um I think it's Australian.
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Yeah. I'm not sure. Did you ever I mean I know you had this long long so far. What about A Place called Home? Was that what it was
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called? Home. No, but then wasn't there a series called A Place called Home
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or something like that? Aussie series. Yeah, it was called Home and Away. Okay. Home in a way a place called home is similar enough
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some but there was a separate maybe I saw your show was yeah we were you in Australia it's shown
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in like many countries but I don't think it's shown during co he said he watched the series you were on I watched the series
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Wolf like me I don't know Australian accent perfect
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for a while because I watched this Australian show it's terrible now oh come on
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I'll be better at the end of this I don't want to do so Major but major was good. Major was good. I just don't do too hard
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or Oh, that was a bit complicated. I go to Michael Kane in a shack. Oh, that is [ __ ] you Kane and back off.
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My name is Buckle Kite. Oh, see you do it right. You're the first. You know why the secret?
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What? Nasal. Yeah, block nose. But yeah, you got to get you are a head coat at Dutch. What? Dutch Michael Kite.
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I know. You know I work. We can circle this around to the movie I'm promoting. So now you see me as my Now you saw me but you won't me see me
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again. What's the title? Now you see me, now you don't. Okay. All right. So, this is a trilogy.
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This is the third one. You were in the first one. I skipped the second because you had a baby.
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Yes. And now this one's coming out November 14th. Mhm. Not on a streaming site. Movie.
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Surprisingly, it's going to the cinema. It's unbelievable. It's so nice to be in a cinema again. I mean, like,
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there's nothing better than watching something, you know, with people. That's big star stuff because they save the big
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movies for I love going to the movies still. I go to the Grove at 4:00. You go with whoever you've
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texted, whoever I texted that day. Yeah. And then I go, his new nickname is 4:00.
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His nickname is 4:00. And then parentheses at it says, "By the way, this is a mass email."
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[Laughter] Whoever responds, I heard of an actor. Uh
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oh, come on. I will tell you after, but it's an actor that would text girls and say
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actively saying the first girl that uh gets back to me will get [ __ ]
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So, and that was the supposed to be excited and I was like they were supposed to be excited.
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Everyone's supposed to be jumping and like jocking. I want to know what the hit ratio of such an outrage. It feels like low numbers. As a woman,
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do you think that's a turn on as a phrase to I'm pretty sure it's dial in, get a
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restraining order, at least report it to the police. Yes. And to sag. Yeah. To sag cuz it's an actor. I'll tell you after
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and you won't be shocked. You'll be like, "It's not Nicholas Cage." I just wanted to announce
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lower. Lower. I mean, not as big of
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but it's all rude. Uh, so now you see me. Now you don't. Now you don't. The third one is is it
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called third one or is it called now you see me now you don't actually one of the very few talking points I was given when discussing this
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film is to not let you say now you see me three. Okay. Oh no. No. Now you see me.
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Now you see me now you don't. Yeah. Yeah. Jesse Eisenberg. Okay. All right. What was the first one word? One
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word for these co your your pals your co. Jesse Eisenberg.
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Hilarious. Woody Harelson. Adorable. Stoned. Dave Franco. I'm adding my word.
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BFF. Um, hot. Dominic Cessa. Dominic Cesa.
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Uh, kind. Ariana Greenblat. Sweet. Justice Smith.
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Clever. David Spade. Handsome. Oh, I snuck you in there for
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I put on a sweater. Put on a sweater in the middle of [ __ ] summer. So, you also have Michael Kane in it briefly.
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And Michael Kane, right? I'm wearing a blazer. Tweed blazer. I know. Both of us are fitzing. Incredible
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clothes. That's really does this. Do you have a stylist? I'm serious. I do. I do. So do I.
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It's called the gap. I don't think like people like it when you go, "Do you have a stylist?" And you go, "I do." And they go, "You look so together." I mean, it's
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like look at Heather over there. No, Heather does have a Heather's the cutest. I saw that outfit right away. I
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see her shorts. You reminded me of AC/DC, the lead singer. That's what I wanted to do as like
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No, it's the guitar player. Yeah, guitar player in his school uniform with that little hat. Oh, he's [ __ ] Aussie. Aren't those
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guys Aussie Aussie Aussie Aussie oi were you ever on neighbors controversial
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question. No, I was on home and away. Feels like Are they competing the questions? We are regressing. Let's feel like we
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should keep the momentum moving forward. We've done the accent. I don't want to run this podcast, guys. I'm too hung
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over. [ __ ] You're hung over because we hung out. I don't really drink. I mean, I'm a mom
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of three drink. Does she? Not really. Not really. If you do ingest alcohol, what is it? If you
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Well, it was an appperal spritz or two last. Two apparel. What? Why? Don't yuck my yum.
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No, I like I like Is it cuz they're so sweet? I just don't like those kind of fancy spritzy
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beer. I like beer. Logger beer. I fosters. Is that cuz you feel it's more gender appropriate? Masculine. Yeah, that's a feminine
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drink. So, if you are in a completely neutral world and no one can watch what you drink, so there's no one around
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in your Gap t-shirt. This is a gap. Oh, shots fired. No, he said it. He said I wear a
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I'm wearing a Gap t-shirt. Yes. I don't just I don't um It's very nice. Three for 10 bucks. These are Gap pants,
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I think. Anyway, back to the movie. Yeah. Why should someone see this movie? Oh,
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Chelsea. Okay. because I feel like it has a lot of magic and we love magic. It's an action. It's a heist movie and
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it's what we love. It's the team back together and the four horsemen. Yep. And there's a few more. There's some new
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horses. There's ponies. There's ponies in this and they bring it. They're just fantastic. They're the greatest actors
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and I feel like they just give a whole new it kind of just reinvigorates the story. It's good to bring energy. Trailer is
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great. I mean, I really made me want to see it cuz I love Magic and I remember the other one. So, well, magic's interesting because it
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kind of it's a conflict of beliefs, right? You watch something, you know logically why it can't be happening, but
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yet it your brain is seeing it happen. And I think that sort of suspension and conflict creates sort of engagement.
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I love how happy I mean in the trailer like she's got some hope diamond or something and somehow Jesse Eisenberg
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has it and I've actually got the hope diamond. It's not the hope from this from when we shot the gave it
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to me. Props gave me one. Perfect. I didn't know it was a Hope Diamond, but The Magician tricks you and then like has a little face.
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Yeah, it's cute. It's the best movie. Honestly, I loved it. I loved making it. I love Ruben Faer. I love the cast and I
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think people are going to love it. It's like a great It's fun. It's a good story, you know. Finally, if you told it at a dinner party, if I just like, you
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know, once upon a time hit you up with the story, you'd be like, "Yeah, I want to see that." Well, the the the tiein
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from magic, which is interesting, to bank heist to distracting everyone with magic distracting for a bank. It's all
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very cool and well done. Yeah. And the tricks we can do. We have this like amazing like team of magicians. And
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so everything that you see our characters do, do you do them? Yeah. So, one's a mentalist, Merritt Woody's character, and then you've got
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an escape artist, myself, Henley, and then you've got the slide of hand. Then you've got these different types of sort of magicians coming together like a kind
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of avenger group to I guess pull off what is this uh massive heist against
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this character played by Rosen Pike called Veronica Vanderberg and it is a she's fantastic. I mean she you saw in
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Gone Girl and you see she's doing what she does best that kind of arch clever villain.
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You split the money evenly. No, I got I got all of the money. I gave everyone I paid everyone, you know, in
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snacks. Everyone in the movie just me the characters. split the money. Oh, the character as a whole. You meant
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my uh We're paid in cash in this podcast and our manager I hold it out and he goes, "Now you see it, now you don't."
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anyone go really crazy with the magic? Cuz to me, Dominic Cessa is so good. He can like
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throw a card across the room as hard as you know. And then who else? Jesse's good. Dave's good. Everyone, we all kind
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of got into it. But you're an escape artist. So, how did you practice that? Oh, wait, wait.
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You get the one I You're going to tell me because you've told it too much, but I want to hear how scary water is because
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I'm scared of water. Really? And I'm I saw I'm scared of like the ocean going in and I used to not be as a
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kid. Now I am. And so I read that you got in water and I'm like I couldn't. It would be too. I'm sure you've told a story before, but
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you had No, I have to say like it's one of those stories, you know, when you do like a press tour and you end up like you get
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kind of more and more worn down and tied and you start using a bit of hyperbole. Oh, and you kind of go Yeah. Yeah. Cuz it's like I don't know. You
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get sort of slightly bored and so I exaggerate it a tiny bit, but then taken out of context. It sound scary just to be in water in a
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scene in handcuffs and you but there was a release switch and the water could be drained in 9 seconds or something. So, I
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was never at in any genuine peril, but it did feel like at the time that um it
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wasn't fun when I was like, "Oh, my little handcuffs, the handcuffs are caught underneath like the steel bars,
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and I thought this is less Little Mermaid and more just like middle-aged woman thrashing in the tank." Less Little Mermaid, more I'm going to
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die. So, you have a stunt double who goes and does it first, right? Um not on these.
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Not on not on the tank handcuffs. Uh, in this movie we did use stunt doubles for a few tricks but not for many.
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Okay. But I don't want to do any spoilers cuz really Don't spoil it. You already spoiled it. Have I spoiled it? Watch this. I was in a movie The Wrong
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Missy. Hey everybody. Oh, a few people. All right. Watch out. Recently one. You know what it is, right? A
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billion minutes. It did a billion minutes on that. It was Yeah, it's the greatest. I love Missy and the girl was so funny.
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She's so funny. So, I'm in a shark tank in some dumb scene and then and then they we did it in a pool first.
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Yeah. And then they go, "Tomorrow we do it in the ocean." I go, "No, no, no, no." I go in it in the ocean in a shark tank
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where there's sharks in the ocean. But they go, "This should not be where sharks are in Hawaii." And I go, "Where
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do you where do you know where sharks are in the ocean?" So, they had to go under. Same thing. So, because a shark
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gets caught in the thing with me. Anyway, very scary. And I relate to your story. And you know what the movie
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loves? When I say I almost died in it. Yeah. The movie company loves that. Oh, they do? They go, "Is that great? Could you keep
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telling the story about how we didn't make you safe?" And I go, "I I thought that potentially too, but
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then I got a kind of weird email." And then when we did another uh I think it's in the movie actually trailer, so I can
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say this, but we are in a tank again. And when we came to shoot that, there was a lot of isa Isa, are you okay? Isa,
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are you Isa, are you what? I'm Australian. I'm a surf
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lifesaver. I'm fine in this tank. I know when I had this, everyone goes, she's not going to like this. She's not going to like
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water. I didn't even get that joke. I very triggering. She'll be like, "What
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if I fell in it? I couldn't." And I'm like, or Australians kind of like they seem badass to me, you know, like the
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Hemsworth brothers and you know, the men and they all do great accents. Are you in that world where you
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can just I mean I think there's just not much call for an Australian dialect. So we all sort of have
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great American actor Russell Crow is extraordinary ear. Yeah.
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Yeah. Where those guys you run into pretty much all the Australian stars. Yeah. Yeah. We do all hang out. It is
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like a bit of a koala mafia. Like 16. It's like an antibodian gang of like
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we get the best people over here. like the best actors and actors wind up in our stuff.
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So, just the ones that stay, are they do they want to get over here? Was that always the idea or not? Well, you know, they they didn't used to
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be. It's improved a lot, but we didn't used to have that much sort of content, original content being developed in Australia.
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There are now more Australian filmmakers telling Australian stories. Um, and we shoot a lot, a lot of American stuff
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shoots there. And we've got now like Warner Brothers on the Gold Coast. And I think we have state funded drama schools. And there's a lot of money in
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the arts. Way more money. The government puts a lot more money in the house. They probably make more there than they do here. I mean, they make more stuff
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there than they do in Hollywood anymore. Yeah. Well, right now with maybe tariffs heading our way.
00:22:45
Whatever. You know, there's all this Okay. The world's crazy. Whatever. But I always think of Australia. We could always move to Australia. I know.
00:22:52
I think you could actually. Um, not just because of your No, but because they don't let you in. They're really strict.
00:22:58
Really? How strict? Cuz I've had friends who wanted to move. They fell in love with an Australian man. It was like they waited. It's not
00:23:04
so, you know, cuz they don't try to come ashore. They have to go to an island first. The immigrants, is there an island they have
00:23:09
to go to, or is that made up or do they just like row in? No, I mean, yeah, we don't want to go on
00:23:15
that topic. Oh. Oh, okay. Sorry. I mean, we can, but I'm like I don't want to be
00:23:20
Oh, immigration. Yeah, I know. I don't want to be the spokesperson for like say it's hard to get to wear at the
00:23:27
premiere. Easy to get in America. Woody Harlson is such a bag of fun. He is so fun. I love Woody and Laura,
00:23:35
his wife. They they were great. And uh yeah, and we play this really dumb game where like we would all put our hands
00:23:40
out and like if we were to play this now, it's called fingers. And I would think of a finger like So put your hands out, right? I'm
00:23:46
going to think of a finger. Okay. And then you're going to guess which finger I'm thinking of. Okay. Okay. All right. Pinky.
00:23:52
Whose pinky? Yours. Okay. So that goes down. Oh, you eliminate. And then we go all the way around. But my point is we're
00:23:58
addicted to this game. It sounds so childish. Does not sound fun. Incredible. But we play it and Woody is
00:24:04
like he's manic about it. He's like, "Well, when are you playing the game?" Is it about you're trying to
00:24:09
eliminate everything? It's about how we communicate. But Dave and Woody have the best connection. And they've honestly
00:24:15
won like several times. And when you win, the feeling it could be a night shoot, could be 6:00 in the
00:24:20
morning, it could have been awake, could have like been on a stage in stilettos and you're miserable. But when Woody and Dave crack it,
00:24:26
it's nothing. It's like a magic thing. It's the idea. It's like there's a tell. There's a tell
00:24:31
you're giving, but you don't know you are. No, it's like the idea that you just guess what somebody's thinking. It's just pure guess cuz mentalists will
00:24:38
do this with all these different tricks and mental. They have like little like Wait a minute. They cheat. Don't tell
00:24:44
me. They're magicians. They're not really I know, but don't I don't ever want to figure out magic. It's one of the few
00:24:49
things I cuz I'm too smart. And um that's one of my favorite lines.
00:24:55
He is actually So when you go and I I like to be tricked. It's one of the few things you go, "Holy shit." and I'm tricked
00:25:00
literally every time. And so even movies like yours, I like to watch that. It is. It's a great twist in our movie.
00:25:06
You're going to love it. I love it because they those movies are very thought out because everyone's guessing ahead. Yeah.
00:25:11
Um I I've seen David Blaine do it in real life. Oh my gosh. Every time he does anything,
00:25:16
I don't know. I have no idea what's going on. Me neither. None. And mentalist on TV, I've seen lately on
00:25:23
Instagram. And um when I see those Rogan show, it's another podcast. Look
00:25:29
it up, kids. They did they guessed his phone number or his social security number.
00:25:34
Oh, wow. Yeah, they flipped out. They do tricks where you go, I don't know how they do it. I'm I'm glad I don't. But one time the guy goes, here's
00:25:41
a Stanley Cup. And then he goes, uh, and then at the end he goes, "Where is it?" And he goes, "Check your ass." And it
00:25:48
was all the way up my ass. And I didn't feel it. Any else was there? My car keys. Let's look at a clue.
00:25:56
4:00. Joker ever PG-13. So good. That was so much.
00:26:03
I'm trying to clean it up. But also a Stanley Cup. It's so ambitious. It's big. Yeah, you could have gone with the magic
00:26:09
wand or something related. And once you get to the handle, it's easy. That's what I was at. I was at where's the handle going?
00:26:15
Handle first. Uh other than that, four movies all of a sudden. Yeah, cuz that's extraordinary.
00:26:22
I mean, some of them I'm in small. I'm only in a like one scene in J. Kelly or two or three. How are you and Jay Kelly?
00:26:27
Yeah, just a little bit. I just did it cuz it's snow bombach and it was shooting in London and in Italy and it was like an honor to be with Adam.
00:26:34
That's great. Yeah, Adam Sanderson is great and George Cloon. I It's amazing. Did you see Adam at all?
00:26:39
I did. Oh, you did. Are you in a scene with Adam? Um, I'm in one scene with Adam, but his
00:26:44
character is sort of it's an audience scene, so we're all separate, but I did have a nice time with him.
00:26:49
Yeah. Yeah. Was he all right? Yeah. He was really happy. And I met him and Jackie came over. We did the like the tech, you know, we did I saw them a
00:26:55
bunch. Oh, great. Okay. So, Spa Weekend with Man. Those two are hilarious.
00:27:01
That I'm not I think it's Mother's Day actually. Okay. And what was that about? Um it's why I watched your movie The
00:27:06
Wrong Missy cuz my character basically I watch my I play somebody in every friend group. There's one friend that nobody
00:27:12
likes and every lady friend group. But they get included and invited everywhere because you know sense of
00:27:18
is that you love you go what part of mine? And they're like, "The one everyone hates you."
00:27:24
No, that's But you know what? I would have had my feelings hurt, but when I got the offer, I was with my daughters
00:27:29
and they're like, "Mommy, you're so popular. Everyone loves you. That's weird that you're cast in that." If I hadn't had that like instant
00:27:35
gratification, I would have spiraled. But also, you play I would have because it's such a like the characters literally they want rid
00:27:41
of her the entire time. I love it. It's funny part. That's a that's a great So then I looked at all these kind of characters. I didn't end up using like
00:27:48
what I created in the end is much more like in keeping. They made Bad Moms and The Hangovers. So, it's like it's rated
00:27:54
uh PG-13. So, I It's like a moderate version of a bunch of different What voice did you use? Just American
00:28:01
accent. Oh, just my American accent. Okay. Yeah. Could you just go into that for a second? Yeah, like that. I just talk like that the whole way through the movie.
00:28:06
God dang. It's so weird. It's so It's so much harder I feel to talk Australian. Yeah, because you really got to open
00:28:12
your mouth wide and see your eyes and the land is Have you ever run into Paula
00:28:18
Hogan? Yes. I love kicking around everywhere. Where's Hogy been?
00:28:24
He We have these galas in Australia. Australia's in film and we have these wonderful like where we celebrate each other and you know cuz Hollywood doesn't
00:28:31
celebrate each other enough. So we get together there. We go, "Yay, we're all together
00:28:36
Australians." And [ __ ] Hogy comes. Yeah, we have a barbecue. It's only a barbecue. A knife. This a knife.
00:28:42
I know. He's a He is so brilliant. Yeah, everyone. Oh, I got a question for you. Yeah, this is Australian trivia. Uh oh.
00:28:49
Were you at um Mulan Rouge premiere? I wasn't born then.
00:28:54
Godamn. No, but you're mad. I was about to say I was there and then
00:29:00
I would just pulled it because that would make me older. Super old. Well, she was in uh No, I'm kidding. I remember when it came
00:29:06
out. You remember when it came out? Cuz I was there. I went to it. Nice. And Baz was there. I Well, Baz directed me in The Great
00:29:12
Gatsby, which was my one of my favorite experiences on And you love him? I love what I've love
00:29:17
him. I love the sets. I love these the costumes and everyone loved Mulan Rouge. Every episode and and Strictly Ballroom, the
00:29:24
one before I mean he everything he does that sort of blow him up. Strictly Ballroom. Yes. I think that was what really
00:29:30
and then Mulan Rouge kind of went worldwide talented and then he just stayed big. Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:35
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um Playdate, our friend Kevin James. Kevin James. Kevin. Kevin, what's his problem? What's he
00:29:41
about? Yeah. What's his problem? Kevin's great. I know. I uh I bully Kevin in this movie. Mhm. Is he the baby in it? What is he a
00:29:49
bit more to a man baby? He He's not a man baby, but he's the comic. Uh, how is he compared? I don't
00:29:56
uh Is it parents get together for playdates for the kids? Is that right? And I play like a mama mafia type
00:30:02
and he comes to my park on my turf. Oh yeah. And so I'm like, what do you do? I I call him a pedo. It's like a bunch of
00:30:08
like really rude jokes. Is it PG-13? When we shot it, we thought it was an ah
00:30:14
there was a lot of fun had a lot. He slung some, you know, insults at my character. I
00:30:20
slung some at his. He was great. I loved working with him. Very, very nice. Just calm.
00:30:26
Yeah, very good dude. We did grown up. He's a very nice guy. He did uh Playdate's a good catchy title.
00:30:32
Yeah, I haven't seen it. So, two titles are [ __ ] boom. Yeah, that's what you want. Yeah. Do you feel like I just getting to
00:30:40
know you now like you get some kind of uh off-kilter parts like you're going against the grain? Yeah. You consider
00:30:45
yourself a character actor in a way or both? But you seem like you get I feel like I'm a bit more of a character actor.
00:30:51
I feel really lucky about that. You know who's a character actor? Daniel Craig.
00:30:57
Daniel Craig. Daniel Craig is a character actor because of the movie Glassins.
00:31:03
I was I was at the Oscars. Hold on. Yeah. Keep going. So, I'm in the in the little bar area and Daniel Craig's there
00:31:09
and he's having a martini and he's in a tuxedo. I said, 'Are you never not in character, but he's just he's done
00:31:16
character parts. Obviously, when he does the what we have here is a
00:31:21
Yeah. And then when you see him, his face can be a little goofy or he does his bond,
00:31:27
his whole body changes. Yeah. And he becomes really Are you interviewing him today? No, I'm
00:31:33
just applying you to him as people who are chameleons and can just disappear. Believe me, we're getting a little
00:31:39
Daniel Craig heavy for a second. I was with you. I was like, we Daniel Craig's invited on the podcast. He's a little like this.
00:31:45
No, but he makes a very handsome face. He gets He's very handsome face. He's very hot. He is handsome anyway, but he does a
00:31:51
Bond face, a prone face that just is very cool. I'm just a huge fan. I'm a huge fan of him, too. Even before
00:31:57
Glass Onion, is he on stage? By the way, he's a really apparently unbelievable on stage.
00:32:02
Sweet guy. What's a serious actor? Okay. Your dream part. Your dream part.
00:32:09
I'm thinking Gary Oldman in Church Hill. Would you love to do something with prosthetics where you just completely
00:32:16
disagree? Absolutely not. Oh, you said no. Cuz you know, you got to go in so early
00:32:22
and I have like a bit of ADHD and I I don't know if I could sit down and have it like really applied in that way. If
00:32:28
you do just a nose, you could win an Oscar. Yeah. If you put on You could play
00:32:34
Ronald McDonald. You could just just a nose. I've always had the feet, too. I've always had very large feet.
00:32:40
Oh my god. Are we getting this? I know. I mean, they're not that I mean, I suppose I have small feet, but I feel
00:32:46
like I wish my feet were smaller. You think they're small? Is that what you said? I've been told they're small, but I feel
00:32:51
like they should be smaller. Well, what do we have any numbers? What? Sorry. This is going to trend. And you don't
00:32:57
understand our audience. Small feet. My feet are fine. Are those suede?
00:33:03
They're fake suede. Okay, Dana, do you have a stylist? Yeah. Oh, I
00:33:09
already asked that. Oh, sorry. Jesus. Are you out of Are you already back to page one?
00:33:15
My notes are I don't know. Oh, here they are. You wrote a book with your mom at 18.
00:33:20
Come on. Is that made up? No, that's true. Were they fiction or non-fiction? It was a like a a young YA young adult they
00:33:28
call the genre, but it had sex scenes in it and I was only Yeah. I was like 18 and so I hadn't even I hadn't even had a
00:33:34
boyfriend at that point. So it was quite awkward with my mom pitching quite racy things that I
00:33:40
Did she push you to be more sexual? Yeah. She was like, "We've really got to get the characters." And I was a bit like Now this there was one novel there that
00:33:45
was Bewitched and Seduced by Fame. My first hand job. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm reading it wrong. Seduced by Fame.
00:33:52
My first hand job. First there was my mom obviously given many. Oh my god.
00:33:57
I'm just kidding. She's like I hope you don't cut your line out and then just leave me with that quote. That
00:34:02
way you could just throw me out. [ __ ] yeah. Oh, who are your best actress buds over
00:34:07
there? It could be American, too. Is Chelsea one of my best actress buds? Like your actress friends
00:34:13
in life? Oh my gosh, I'm so lucky. I'm I bet my recently I connect Michelle who's in my
00:34:20
movie Spa Weekend. I Michelle Bau. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely love her. I think she's hilarious. Um every movie obsessed.
00:34:28
Annabelle Wallace, obsess. Natalie Portman. Love, love, love. She's Natalie Portman. Natalie Portman. You
00:34:34
know her. She's great. She's the best. She's kind of off the roof. I mean, she doesn't she's not She's brilliant actress. You don't see her a lot as
00:34:40
herself. Is she kind of a pistol? A kick in the pants? We don't see normal people don't see. No, cuz you know why you don't see her?
00:34:46
Cuz she lives in at the moment in France in Paris. Oh, yeah. She's not like
00:34:52
it. Do you know French?
00:34:59
Fake French. No, I speak French. You were doing I was doing fake. You knew it, right? He doesn't know.
00:35:13
[Laughter] Do you stay in touch with Scooby-Doo? With Scooby-Doo? Well, he's an animated
00:35:19
character. No, he's not. We do. Let's stay in touch with him.
00:35:24
We You do Shaggy. Watch Scooby-Doo. Okay. Give me a topic. Anything. War I ran.
00:35:32
Is there a Warren? No. She clams up. Here's a different one. Give me a topic.
00:35:38
No. Here's another one. I don't know any topics.
00:35:43
You don't know any topics. Is the topic scoop? I don't know what to talk about. The world's on fire. What
00:35:49
are we going to do? Scoop guys, that's amazing.
00:35:54
See, it's just Casey Kasem. We've got Isa Fisher on the show. She didn't have
00:36:00
a C in her name. Scoop. I didn't know what to say. You [ __ ] up.
00:36:09
She noticed it right up. I didn't know you could swear. We're just G-rated cartoons. This changes
00:36:15
everything. Scoo, let's hump something. Scooby's horny. They they cut it out of
00:36:21
the final stuff, but always dry humping people. Um, can we keep going like this? Um, what's
00:36:28
not going to offend her? Not that. No, it's fine. No, no, listen. What's this book? Have you guys read
00:36:33
that book or is that just like a prop? I don't know what that make you look deep prop. I think it's an SNL book, isn't it?
00:36:38
Is it the SNL book? Oh, nice. I didn't read it. I skimmed it for pictures of me. with you're too you
00:36:44
never audition for SNL. Did you do even think to ask you this? No, I was supposed to do SNL. She would be great on
00:36:50
right after Hot Rod. Uh because Oh, that's right. And then I can't remember what I was doing. I I was on the press store for
00:36:56
Confessions. Oh, was it Confessions of a Shop? I can't remember. I didn't end up doing it, but I am an avid fan. Sorry.
00:37:02
Do you do you believe that? Did they kind of make overtures after Hot Rod? Like, hey, would you like to maybe come
00:37:08
on the show or you were going to audition or where did it go? You mean as good as lawn?
00:37:13
Um, the thing about Isla, you'll find that she's fair about what? I I'll let
00:37:19
you know. Fair is a good one. No, he's But the But she wouldn't have been a cast
00:37:25
member. I mean, you're you're built for that show. But you're a movie star, so it doesn't matter. I would love to do it. Love, love, love.
00:37:31
But you could do it again. I mean, well, I think you should host host right in. Yeah. I'd love to just do a skit. I just like
00:37:37
to just go on it. I just love watching it. I've been there live. I think you were there the night. Did we see
00:37:42
the 50th? I feel like there was a bunch of us there. No, I didn't go to that. But one of them I feel like in New York once I
00:37:47
have like Were you there with Blaine? David Blaine. No. Am I Oh, I went down there. Yeah. I feel like you were I sometimes Yeah, maybe
00:37:54
the afterparty. Mhm. The afterparty. The after party. Interesting. Yeah, after party. A lot of people with
00:38:01
Boston accent in this particular area. Wait, where did just quickly where did you and Chelsea go? Do you go out to
00:38:07
dinner and drink? Yeah, we went to Wallally's. We just went to Wally. Wallally's in Beverly Hills. Yeah, it was really nice. The cheese
00:38:12
platter is amazing. Obviously, it's like a cheese place. Did you just eat cheese and then drink as
00:38:17
No, we actually really broadened our horizons. We did capacio. We had like some of that special octopus and then we
00:38:23
split a burger. Oh, great. But you know what I will say? Don't let them give you the gourmet tomato sauce.
00:38:28
It's not good. Just ask for the straight up ketchup if you Oh, yeah. Sometimes they try to gussy it up.
00:38:34
It's just like it's it loses its What's your self-care habits?
00:38:39
We're down to the nub. Sorry. We can go back to the movie. No, but you seem like you
00:38:45
do. You do crunches. Do you do crunches? Do you have a skin routine? Do you drink a lot of water? Because I'm hearing
00:38:51
Chelsea handler. I'm hearing spritzers. I'm hearing cheese. But you look pretty good. Darn good. So, you must have some
00:38:57
habits. Anxiety. Just I get nervous. And then I'm not that hungry. And you're not hungry. Yeah. That's it. And we have to before we uh
00:39:05
get you out here and get you an Uber, we have to say for Oh, yeah. For Wedding Crashers, do you audition for that or do
00:39:10
you get asked to do it or do you have to go in there and read? Oh, no. I read like I think five times for Wedding Crashers with Vincent.
00:39:17
No, no, no. With Lisa Beach and um is that casting? Yeah. I don't. And maybe Dokin and maybe
00:39:23
Andrew Pane. I can't remember. Is Dokin the director? Yeah, David. David Dokin. Yep. And then you go and they go
00:39:30
crazier, less crazy, whatever, whatever. Because that really I No, they actually didn't see her as that crazy. I think they wanted her to
00:39:36
be more sort of like of like a sort of seductive character. And then I thought it'd be funny if she was a bit more Glen
00:39:42
Close from S from Fatal Attraction. And then he just was great. David's so
00:39:48
good at like letting you have like a wild take or two. And then he just used I guess in the end in the edit it did
00:39:54
work better that she was more threatening than she was little unhinged. Yeah. Such a gift when they let you
00:40:00
such a gift. And when they give you this space like it's it's like one thing if they go gh okay you can do a take but
00:40:06
it's another thing if they like they give you the process where you just feel like you can take the space and
00:40:11
you're not like annoying anyone by doing wasting everyone's time. That's the worst feeling when you there's everyone on the crew is watching
00:40:17
and when I do a take then you do it. All right moving on. No problem. No. All right, we're going to we're going to
00:40:23
Are you done with your take everybody? You think that was funny? That's your one. As long as you thought it was good. All
00:40:29
right, let's rap. But I would guess Vince Owen uh would be up for that and and laughing in a good
00:40:35
audience, too. Yeah. And they love and they're really fun to Yes. because they're smart enough to know if you score, they score. It's all if the
00:40:41
movie works. And Bradley Cooper was in that which I keep forgetting was in that. Uh great in that, too. Just another side
00:40:48
character. It's funny as [ __ ] Yeah. And the combination of all that was a such a hit. It just that's one of
00:40:54
those ones that last. Yeah. Those uh knots. It was 2008 or something. One of those hits, those Will
00:40:59
Ferrell movies, those big comedies with those guys did a few and they're just big and and they stick
00:41:05
around and it just always on your resume. It's nice to have one cuz it's as you know cuz that was probably early
00:41:10
on. It's just always hard as much as you go into movies like this will be a hit. Not. It's hard to get one that really
00:41:17
just all the way through stays funny through the editing, through the test screens, you're like, "Holy [ __ ] is
00:41:22
this actually staying good?" Yeah. But no one was really funny. Yeah. And it changed actually my career
00:41:28
cuz until then I felt like I hadn't really done comedies before and I wasn't really like considered for them and then
00:41:33
I got like a whole other Did you get a lot of do that like be that girl again?
00:41:39
Oh no. I was lucky. I had like a I have always been with this wonderful agent for Oh, that's good.
00:41:45
20 odd years and he's always like, "No, you know, and I'm I love to like challenge myself." So, I didn't want to
00:41:51
I don't challenge myself and I've been doing the same part for since the beginning, but it's fine. It's good. You're like
00:41:57
got me this doomsday shelter. Movie stars kind of do the same part. Someone meets you at 3:00.
00:42:02
Somebody Oh, it's movie 3:00. It depends on if I'm Pacific or Central.
00:42:09
I kind of do a wide net. I just hit the Rockies in this side. So
00:42:15
horrible. Whatever that story is. Um, all right. Oh goodness. Born in Somalia. We'll just wrap it up.
00:42:22
It said spent early childhood in Scotland or Aean Omen. Omen. We were ever in Scotland. Yes, I did spend time in Scot. I have a
00:42:28
really complicated cultural identity because I was kind of born in the Middle East, but I was raised in Australia, but now and then I went to clown school in
00:42:34
Paris and then I ended up living two continents over the course of
00:42:40
first day of school. [Music] Isa, you dropped one.
00:42:46
It was clown and mime school. Yeah. Was it mime, too? I was like I just had the fate for it
00:42:51
cuz the big wear your own shoes. Yeah. I didn't have to put on the big shoes.
00:42:58
How fun. M school. What haven't you done? Written books, giant movies. That's too It's too much.
00:43:04
The resume it's getting or started working at nine in a commercial. Yes. That's an Is that an Aussie? That's a
00:43:10
crazy That's an Aussie thing. No, I think I just like I was like when I actually was really ambitious under the age of 10.
00:43:16
Then I kind of peaked by 12. Mhm. And then went dormant for a while. And then I went dormant and then I
00:43:22
sprung back. Do you have siblings that went into business? No. No one in my family. My mom's like an academic. My dad was
00:43:28
worked for the UN. My brothers are now in hospitality. I'm the only I'm the only
00:43:33
ginger sheep in the family. Ginger. You're the only one with ginger hair. No, my brother's got ginger hair. But I
00:43:40
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star? Listen, little girl. I mean, did you get some of that? Most people do. I I swear I didn't.
00:45:12
It was helpful. Everyone's backing you up. That's the first thing David said to me when we met. I said, "You're never gonna make it." He's already on SNL.
00:45:18
He's 10 years younger. And I was like, "Who is this kid? You're never gonna make it."
00:45:23
So, God, you've had such a cool career. Are you friends with Prince Harry? I'm not friends. I've I've seen him at a
00:45:29
pop concert, but I'm not red hair. Aren't they married? That's the same
00:45:35
team. I'm just Are they still married for a banger a clip or something? And I'm like going cautiously around the
00:45:43
I know. We got the immigration divorce. I mean, I'm sorry. Going down, please. No, this is No, he
00:45:49
You don't have to is married to Megan Markle. Yeah. Did you read that? I did not know that. It's in all the papers.
00:45:55
Oh, wow. And they are uh the whole royal thing. Well, you're off to London, I heard.
00:46:01
Are you a little bit? By the way, thank you for coming in because I know you're running under I'm going to London tonight. I know you came in. I appreciate it.
00:46:07
Yeah. No, you're kidding. Thank you for having me. I swear to God, I appreciate it. I've been staying at Guys, by the way. Oh, is that where you stay? Hilarious. Yeah.
00:46:13
Where was there? Noah Gallagher in the other room. The last time I went over there, I got to see the Oasis guy.
00:46:20
Oh, you weren't there. Sorry. You were running around. If you're I mean, this just people questions I'd ask anybody. Okay, just
00:46:27
tell say pick one. Beatles. Led Zeppelin. Beatles.
00:46:32
Oh, wow. Beatles. Beatles. Pink Floyd.
00:46:39
Beatles. Beatles. You're right so far. Eagles. Oh, Beatles. Beatles. Queen. Oh,
00:46:48
Beatles. Okay. I know Queen do more diverse sounds and they had a different era that was really
00:46:54
fascinating, but the Beatles are just No, I'm with you. There's There's only the Beatles. There's only the Beatles. There's
00:46:59
nothing to even compare. But a lot of people have a soft spot. Queen is is, you know, kind of almost still
00:47:05
underground in a way what they achieved. Yeah. Audially, but the Beatles are Well, Queen was unreal. It's just it's
00:47:12
if you run into my friend Paul McCartney, show him, you know, now you see yourself, now you don't. It's a
00:47:19
tricky movie. You're like, here I am, you know, now you can't see me. That's a real banger. Sorry. Go ahead. I'm trying
00:47:25
to do I have to get to 10 voices. He has to get to 10. Do you really?
00:47:31
No, he does a lot. Shalom. Just like set that start of an hour.
00:47:36
Could you You could do a liver puddle. You could do an accent if you're given one. Yes, with time you could do
00:47:41
anything. Yes, but I do I do obviously study it like specifically. I couldn't just like I'm not I don't think I could just hear
00:47:46
like an accent and mimic it back. I mean, I could, but it wouldn't be I don't know. It's It's really continual
00:47:52
exposure since I'm constantly looking at Beatles stuff on YouTube at night just to amuse myself. I'm constantly hearing
00:47:58
them. Well, who Well, let me ask you. Beatles. Daniel Craig.
00:48:05
Good one. Daniel Craig is like he's the Tom Jones. Yeah, I can feel it. I felt it from you.
00:48:10
I got that. I got one last one. Beatles drowning in handcuffs.
00:48:16
Well, I said, "Hey, what's your name?" Daniel. I ran with your joke. I ran with your joke. Okay, here's one for you that'll make
00:48:22
you laugh. Sean Conry, the late great junk, is asked whether he enjoyed his vacation in Spain.
00:48:29
Ready? Yeah.
00:48:34
That's it. Brilliant. You know what? You can't. It's just flawless. You don't need more. Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:39
Make three syllables out. Yeah. Yeah. I like that, too. Visually entertaining
00:48:46
as you dislocate your head. We should do an improv group called the
00:48:52
coconuts. Hey everybody. Why would we call the coconuts? I don't know. What's the word?
00:48:57
Sounds funny. But like there's three of us. We would have to have something that was more sort of like a the triple coconuts.
00:49:03
She's Isa. I'm David. The three coconut. We're more of a grape. A bunch a small gr bunch of grapes.
00:49:09
Yeah. Yeah. That's not as good. We'll never be a coconut. Yeah. All right. Well, Isa, thanks for coming
00:49:14
by. I appreciate your time. My flight's at 8:05, but I'm actually going I'm going to pitch a movie right
00:49:20
now. My writing partner. Yeah. I'm going straight to Hello Sunshine from this high. Will you just pitch us
00:49:26
and for a practice thing? This comes out in six months. So, but what if it doesn't sell and you curse me? And what if I do my log line
00:49:32
and you guys like, why would you? No, we're not. We're not like that. I'm I just just just practice on us. Okay.
00:49:38
So, um Okay. We're executives. All right. What do you got? Actresses doing
00:49:43
in a bunker. First of all, we're podcast in a bunker and there's an earthquake. So, I What
00:49:49
would you like to do in a movie? I'm a studio executive. Yeah, you're making I don't like when
00:49:55
you're making me squirly. It's going to end up bringing Don't tell us the pitch, but have you ever been in a general meeting and how
00:50:01
dumb they are where they go, we're setting you up with the head of Paramount. Just a little general. And then they have nothing.
00:50:07
They go, "No, what are you up to? What do you want to do?" I'm like, "I want to be in a big [ __ ] movie. Can I leave?" Like,
00:50:12
what what is this movie? I had one recently. A guy says, "What do you really want to do on a big platform over the Zoom? You just send it to me."
00:50:18
So, I sent him the script. Scared him off. 45 days, nothing. But he's like, "We're
00:50:25
such fans. We want it." I sent him the script radio. We'll make literally anything you think of. He sends him a finished script. He's
00:50:30
like, "Fucking written on spec. He didn't even have to pay for the development."
00:50:36
Yeah. I don't know. I Here's my guest because I, you know, you're a mentalist in the movie and now you see me, now you don't.
00:50:42
Um, everywhere in theaters November 14th, your pitch is about I see a young woman.
00:50:48
Yeah. There's a young woman who has two babies, lives in Manhattan.
00:50:53
Oh. and works for the New York Times. Uhuh. And she undercovers a plot,
00:50:58
right, to make uh Australia into to lift it off the ocean floor and make it into kind of
00:51:05
a boat. Yeah. Cuz it's on a tectonic ridge. So it becomes Is that your pitch? Becomes dislo that's exactly my pitch. Exactly.
00:51:11
And I play one of the plate, you know, the plates underneath the ocean. There you go. You're not the woman. You're I'm going to play and they're
00:51:17
friends. It's It's a deeper role and it's very very deep. Yeah. Okay. I like in the end they're friends.
00:51:24
That's the key. That is the key. So you and it's not men centric. They're
00:51:29
not searching. No, it's not gonna be a bunch of dudes. Yeah. They're not the smart people are girls in it. Mhm.
00:51:35
Mhm. Okay, Dana. We'll find something for you in it. All right. Uh, thank you. This is the longest wrap up, but thank
00:51:40
you for coming. Thank you for having me, you guys. Thanks for fitness into your You like how I had my notes when I found them. It was dumb. Anyway, I did really
00:51:47
nothing. Now you see me, now you don't. Nice to meet you. [Music]
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Episode Highlights

  • Introducing Isa Fisher
    The lovely and talented Isa Fisher joins the podcast, bringing her charm and humor.
    “Everyone likes her. All the giries like Isa.”
    @ 00m 33s
    October 23, 2025
  • Now You See Me: The Third Installment
    Isa discusses her role in the upcoming film, Now You See Me, and the excitement of returning to the big screen.
    “It's unbelievable. It's so nice to be in a cinema again.”
    @ 00m 50s
    October 23, 2025
  • The Magic of Movies
    Isa shares her thoughts on the magic and excitement of heist movies and the importance of audience engagement.
    “Magic's interesting because it creates a conflict of beliefs.”
    @ 13m 02s
    October 23, 2025
  • Koala Mafia
    A playful take on the Australian film scene, likening it to a 'koala mafia.'
    “It's like a koala mafia.”
    @ 22m 00s
    October 23, 2025
  • Woody Harrelson's Fun Spirit
    The joy of working with Woody Harrelson, described as a 'bag of fun.'
    “Woody Harrelson is such a bag of fun.”
    @ 23m 27s
    October 23, 2025
  • The Magic of Being Tricked
    The thrill of being surprised and tricked, a sentiment shared by the speaker.
    “I like to be tricked. It's one of the few things you go, 'Holy shit.'”
    @ 24m 49s
    October 23, 2025
  • Twists in Film
    Discussing the clever twists in their movie, highlighting the excitement of storytelling.
    “It's a great twist in our movie.”
    @ 25m 06s
    October 23, 2025
  • Character Roles
    The speaker reflects on their journey in character roles and the importance of variety.
    “It changed actually my career.”
    @ 41m 28s
    October 23, 2025
  • Cultural Identity
    Navigating a complex cultural background from the Middle East to Australia.
    “I have a really complicated cultural identity.”
    @ 42m 28s
    October 23, 2025
  • The Beatles vs. Queen
    A spirited debate on the greatest bands of all time.
    “There's only the Beatles.”
    @ 46m 59s
    October 23, 2025
  • Pitching a Movie
    An actress shares her unique movie pitch involving tectonic plates and friendship.
    “It's not gonna be a bunch of dudes.”
    @ 51m 29s
    October 23, 2025

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  • Hung Over00:13
  • Magic Discussion13:02
  • Australian Mafia22:00
  • Koala Mafia22:00
  • Film Twists25:06
  • Cultural Journey42:28
  • Music Debate46:59
  • Movie Pitch51:29

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