Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, playing Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, and has since become known for her roles in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, 2007′s Hot Rod. and 2009′s Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman to Scottish parents from Bathgate and Stranraer. They resided in Muscat because of her father’s job as a banker for the United Nations. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-la; she has four brothers. Fisher spent her infancy in Bathgate before moving with her family to Perth, Western Australia, when she was nine months old. Fisher has said that she had a “great” upbringing in Perth with a “very outdoorsy life”. She began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of nine, before going on to win roles in popular children’s television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. She attended Methodist Ladies’ College and appeared in lead roles in school productions.
For the actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan, filming Zack Snyder’s latest — the eagerly awaited adaptation of the Watchmen graphic novel — was memorable. And scary. Wrapped in $100,000 worth of neoprene, plastic and leather, with a flamethrower strapped to his beefed-up body, Morgan filmed a scene in which he doused a stuntman with flames. As he unleashed his fiery fury, petrol dripped from the flamethrower and gathered on top of the pool of water in which he was standing. Then, just as the last jets spat forth, the fuel on the water caught light. The flames streaked towards Morgan, running up his leg. The actor yelped as pain and panic wrestled for his attention. “Don’t get the costume wet,” came the shout from the director on the sidelines.
“That’s typical,” beams Morgan as he recalls the incident. “Zack’s eyes are huge with panic, and it’s because he’s worried about the suit. I wasn’t badly hurt. But if this role was a little hard at times, it was not because of things like that. It’s because of the character I play, the Comedian. Indeed, all the characters in Watchmen are not what people might expect from a comic-book film.”
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot. Written by evan murphy
