-Our first guest this evening is a talented actress
who you know from her work in films like "Definitely Maybe,"
"Hot Rod," and "Wedding Crashers."
She stars in the new series "Wolf Like Me".
All six episodes will be available to stream on Peacock
starting tomorrow.
Let's take a look.
-♪ Every fortress falls ♪
-Who put on that song?
-Um, I don't know.
-Did you just put on the song?
-I've been sitting here with you.
-Um, I need to go.
-Did I do something wrong? I feel like --
-No, I just feel like this is --
um, I shouldn't have put myself in this situation.
-What situation?
-I haven't day drunk in a really long time, so --
-I don't think it's day anymore.
-Really? What time is it? -After 6:00.
-Huh! -♪ I don't believe I know you ♪
♪ Yet, I don't truly know myself ♪
-Please welcome to the show Isla Fisher.
How are you, Isla? -I'm good. But, wait.
I love that you're wearing a flannel shirt
and I'm dressed up for the Oscars.
-I know, I feel like we do a bad job of letting our guests know.
[ Laughter ]
This is like we met -- we met on Tinder
and I did a terrible job of telling you
where we were going to go for our first date.
-Yes, yes, that is so true.
But I would like -- What's the fancy one?
Isn't it Raya? We would have met on Raya.
-Oh, we would have been on Raya. You're right.
We would not have been --
We wouldn't have been slumming it on Tinder.
[ Laughter ]
Isla, congratulations on this show,
which has romance elements, horror elements,
and it is almost impossible to talk about
without giving something away.
-Yeah, it has been really fun during press for this movie.
It is like the list of talking points is just two pages
of what I can't say,
but I will say that
people really seem to have connected so far.
We've got pretty good reviews,
which I'm really happy about because I'm very proud of this.
It is sort of like an exploration of
how difficult it is to have a romance or to be --
to fall in love, how scary it is,
and sort of genre-bending element
is just sort of a reminder of
really the danger of being open to love
and how the baggage we bring into relationships.
-One thing we can say because we did officially give it away
in the clip is the Josh Gad is in this show,
who is incredibly talented... -He is.
-...and wonderful, and it must be nice
to do a show with somebody like that.
-By the way, completely agree, Seth.
Thank you for highlighting
the fact that every day onset was fun.
And as we both know, because we've been in this business
sadly since "Hot Rod," so a very long time,
that often -- that, you know, those relationships --
Put it this way, Josh comes to work every day
very happy and a very supportive scene partner.
I mean, we shot it in Australia though,
and he was obsessed with kangaroos
and he just kept saying, "Isla, where are the kangaroos?"
I'd be like, "Josh, we're in Sydney, we're in a city."
It is not like we're in --
"There are no kangaroos in a coffee shop, mate.
You have to just cool your jets."
But we did have some chickens and a goat.
So he saw wildlife. Not necessarily Australian wildlife.
-Did he ever -- over the course of his visit,
did you at least show him one kangaroo?
Did you send him out to find one?
-He got -- He got sick when he landed.
Actually, the scene that you just showed,
sort of the kissing scene,
we both had snot streaming out of our nose,
so it was not the most romantic day.
And I feel like every weekend he had to do --
No, he didn't see a kangaroo.
He didn't even see a wallaby or a koala.
I'm pretty sure he -- no.
You need to ask him, but I let him down as a tourist guide.
-Yeah. -I was not there.
-I can't believe you --
the consolation animal you showed him was a chicken.
That's really -- I mean, that's really rough.
-Well, that's in the show.
I mean, I didn't even go out of my way to -- yeah.
-So you -- you and your husband, Sacha,
you celebrated an anniversary last month.
Is it 20 years? -Right.
Which in Hollywood standards is like 200 years.
Golden jubilee. It is unheard of.
-Congratulations.
And this is a detail that I will never get tired
of talking about or hearing about.
You guys met in clown school. -Right.
We didn't actually meet in clown school,
but we did both go to clown school.
-Gotcha. So it is a very -- a very good ice breaker
when you finally met to talk about clown school.
-Right. I mean, listen.
You know, I studied with Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
He studied with Philippe Gaulier in London.
My, you know, red nose was born
in the ninth [indistinct].
His was born in the seventh.
My clown shoes are a 1'5", and his are only half a foot.
So I like to think that -- No, I'm just kidding.
There's not much clown rivalry at home,
but there are a lot of conversations
about commedia dell'arte and bouffon,
and we can get competitive.
-I can't believe this, because it was such a --
I mean, it was the first time I think a lot of people saw you,
was in "Wedding Crashers."
It was such a brilliantly funny performance,
and yet I recently heard it was the first comedy role
you ever auditioned for. -Yeah.
I mean it is weird because growing up
I had like extra large ears
and I was really short with red hair in Australia,
so I did use comedy to make friends.
My parents put me in a different school every year, so I did --
I was always kind of a jokester or prankster I guess.
But professionally I didn't really know that comedy
was really an option,
even though my dad is like
the funniest person you would ever meet.
But, yes, Sacha was the one that said, "You're so funny.
You say the funniest jokes. You should do a comedy."
And then I told my agent, and actually "Wedding Crashers"
was the first one that I auditioned for,
and the rest is history.
Yeah, no, I'm lucky. I get to --
Like, "Wolf Like Me" is very dramatic,
but I still get to do comedies
which is, you know, tapping into your inner idiot.
The most fun you can ever have. -I agree.
I have a lot of questions about some other stuff
including your work as an author.
We will be back with more Isla Fisher right after this.