It’s about time Isla Fisher got her own movie. After stealing all of her scenes as Vince Vaughn’s adorably psychotic love interest in Wedding Crashers, not to mention earning her dues through a host of supporting roles, the delightfully funny Australian (and fiancé of Sasha Baron “Borat� Cohen) has a vehicle that really showcases her talents. Confessions of a Shopaholic stars Fisher as Rebecca Bloomwood, a consumer-obsessed young woman who stumbles around department stores and fakes her way through financial journalism, fan dancing and speaking Finnish. We chatted with her about the film, her own tastes in fashion, her gift for physical comedy and tapping into her inner idiot.

The Wave: What was the most fun style discovery you made making this film?
Isla Fisher: Using a lot of color in my wardrobe. I’m fairly conservative normally and I just feel like [costume designer] Patricia Fields brought out the color in me. I now love to wear color.

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She’s that perky redhead hooked up with “Borat” (Sacha Baron Cohen). The couple have a baby daughter. Pretty Isla Fisher first caught our eye as the kookie, kinda desperate gal who glued herself to Vince Vaughn in the comedy Wedding Crashers. She was the right match for Scarlett Johansson’s hubby Ryan Reynolds in the romantic Definitely, Maybe. Now you can identify with Isla (pronounced Eye-la) as a modern woman who is a bit overextended on her credit cards and still trying to hit the sales and hook up with her cute boss in Confessions of a Shopaholic, based on a popular novel.

In Isla’s soft Aussie accent, we got the latest on shopping, comedy, fashion designers and dancing with Dancy (cute Hugh Dancy, her co-star). Picture the actress wearing a color that always looks great on a red-head… royal blue! Isla blew us away at our interview in her royal blue Zac Posen low-necked dress with short puffed sleeves. She accessorized with big copper dangle earrings and very high-heeled gladiator-style sandals in…orange! This gal knows how to stand out in a crowd!

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Isla Fisher may always look a million dollars, but the self-confessed tomboy is actually nothing like her latest character in Confessions Of A Shopaholic, the big-screen adaptation of Sophie Kinsella’s bestselling novel.

In fact, Fisher says she was literally thrown in the fashionista deep end to play the film’s out-of-control spendthrift Rebecca Bloomwood, who’s forced to take stock when her shopping obsession leaves her drowning in debt.

“Playing Becky was fun. But I’ve never been mad on fashion; I’m most happy in a T-shirt and jeans,” says the 32-year-old mum, who researched the role by attending shopaholic support groups and learning from the film’s style guru, Patricia Field.

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It wasn’t her first role, but Isla Fisher’s performance as the, ahem, adventurous woman in Wedding Crashers was certainly her most-noticed.

Until now. Playing the lead for the first time, the Australian Fisher stars as Rebecca Bloomwood in Confessions of a Shopaholic, which opens Friday. Based on the best-selling novel by Sophie Kinsella — Fisher said she read and loved it long before the film came along — it’s the story of a woman who hopes to become a finance writer, despite drowning in debt herself due to her inability able to stop shopping

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If you’re looking for a luxury-mad label-lover, Isla Fisher’s not your girl.

The red-haired Australian actress, clad in a striped sweater and poufy skirt, doesn’t even know who designed her outfit, which she got from her stylist. And she gets annoyed when a gorgeous studded bracelet keeps catching on her black tights, nearly ripping them.

“I’m all right,” she says. “This is a hazardous bracelet. It looks fabulous, but it’s a hazard.”

And unlike your typical calorie-averse fashionista, she eats. At a window table at Fred’s at Barneys, Fisher tears through her lobster salad, buttery bread and tiramisu with the same zest that her Confessions of a Shopaholic character, Rebecca Bloomwood, reserves for spending sprees she can’t afford. In the film, opening Friday and based on Sophie Kinsella’s books, Fisher’s Becky shops till she drops — and ends up $16,000 in debt.

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“You see it on the screen,” he says. “She’s vivacious, she’s funny, she’s a wonderful dramatic actress. This movie wouldn’t work without the ability she has to pull this character off and show that she is serious. The comedic part – we saw what she could do in Wedding Crashers and some of her other work, but the real surprise is that she’s a wonderful dramatic actress.” – Jerry Bruckheimer

Canada.com published a nice article about Ms. Isla Fisher. She discusses Sacha, growing up in Australia, Confessions and mentions a little more on Rango. Check it out in the press archive!

Go see Confessions of a Shopaholic for shopping tips and financial advice?

That’s producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s idea. He thinks that the timing for the release of his comedy about a girl hooked on plastic is eerily prescient, considering the current economic turmoil.

And that may make people want to spend money to go see the film, right?

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The premiere of her first Hollywood film isn’t the only thing leading lady Isla Fisher has to brag about – she’s apparently doing her bit for the ailing world economy, too.

As a big-spending, designer-label fashion addict in Confessions of a Shopaholic, the former Home and Away gal is set to inspire retail consumption on a grand scale.

So, says heavyweight producer Jerry Bruckheimer, anyway. “The timing for this movie couldn’t be better,” Bruckheimer told the LA Times. “This is about a girl spending too much money who figures out how to stop.”

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“If [Shopaholic] is a hit, it was Isla Fisher in the movie, “And if it doesn’t work out, it was Amy Adams.

“I was so disillusioned by the rejection of being an actress in L.A., and Sacha said, ‘What are you doing? You are the funniest woman I know. You have to do comedy,’ It had never crossed my mind—even though, when I flick through photo albums, I am always the one humping the table or wearing a silly mustache.”

“I attribute my ability to tap into my inner idiot to having to be such a gypsy and to adapt to new environments and new people at school, You can make friends quickly if you’re willing to take the piss out of yourself.”

On the soap, Paradise Beach
“I wore a bikini everywhere, To a funeral you would wear a bikini. I wore a bikini to a restaurant and had a meal in a bikini once. It was ridiculous.”

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