“I’ve always been a little bit scared.
“I’m just a bit of a nervous nelly.
I don’t think that’s really changed.”
While she may feel like a “nervous nelly,” Fisher sure has overcome those nerves.
From an early age, she figured out how to let her true self shine.
From the new kid in school to Tinseltown star, this is the transformation of Isla Fisher.
Both of Fisher’s parents are Scottish.
Rather, when she was still a preteen, she took matters into her own hands.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
In the late 1990s, she moved to London to chase her acting dreams.
I remember doing a lot of West End theatre.”
Thankfully, books could provide her with some comfort.
In a separate interview withCosmopolitan, the actor looked back on being the forever “new kid.”
I almost preferred reading a book to having friends as a kid."
Fisher’s love for books blossomed into a love for writing when she became a teenager.
And both actors inspired Fisher to enroll.
It sounded so romantic and exciting and different."
Additionally, the actor learned how to see her physical “flaws” as an advantage.
“I had a paycheck!
I had a paycheck every week,” she said.
“I remember I went out to restaurants.
I had a Thai meal for dinner.'”
“That was my breakthrough performance,” she fondly remembered of her award-winning 2005 role.
Fisher shared, joking: “Clearly I’m still more recognized for that performance than anything else.”
That was a real low point," Fisher shared withWomen’s Health.
She was in “Life of Crime” with Jennifer Aniston.
“He’s such a generous person,” she said.
“We’re working on some really important collaborations, and I think that’s more important.”
I knew instantly."
Fisher and Cohen welcomed their first child, a daughter named Olive, in 2007.
A year after they married, the actors added a second daughter, Elula, to their family.
Then in 2015, Fisher gave birth to a baby boy, whom she and Cohen named Montgomery.
… And, otherwise, I just think it’s nice to keep some things for yourself."
“I definitely don’t want to do the lead role in a movie,” Fisher asserted.
“The hours, being away from my young family, the pressure of having to open a movie.
“You’re very limited in what you’re able to do,” she admitted.
(We’ll give you three guesses.)
“She’s heading right towards me, and she says, ‘Thank you.
It’s Lady Gaga.
I love her so much.
I don’t want to tell her the truth,'” Fisher recalled.
“So I just gracefully thanked her and bowed my head.
… And then I look over her shoulder, and there’s Amy Adams walking into the party!
So I’m like, ‘There’s Isla Fisher.'”
And second, Adams and Fisher both appeared in 2016’s “Nocturnal Animals.”
Granted, their characters existed in separate storylines, but still, they were in the movie together.
Motherhood actually inspired her “Marge in Charge” series, which first hit shelves in 2016.
“I worry that books for children are dying out,” she admitted to Balance.
And I have ice cream when I feel like it.”
In a 2018 chat withThe Sun, she noted that she’s a fan of pastries as well.
She gushed to Women’s Health, “After yoga, you really do feel happier!”
Above all else, Fisher makes sure to give herself plenty of grace.
Sometimes I think we could all do with cutting ourselves some slack," she said in Balance.
“I’m not perfect I’m consistently dropping balls but that’s okay.”
In 2021, Fisher spoke about her love for the land Down Under during an interview with Marie Claire.
“I feel like I can be myself in Australia,” she shared.
“I love the people.
I love the colors and the sights and the taste and the smells.
I have a very Australian sensibility.”
As far as she was concerned, it wasn’t as chill a town as she’d like.
“There’s not really a culture of bringing your kids to dinner parties or to restaurants past 6pm.
As she told the interviewer, she values keeping a boundary between her personal and professional lives.
As far as speaking about her three kids, Fisher makes a point of keeping the details limited.
“I want our children to have a normal childhood being able to play outside without pressure or scrutiny.
“[Instagram is] toxic for children and [for] the proliferation of fake news.
Whether she’s picking acting gigs or posting content, she stays true to that work-life balance.
