Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade - Isla Fisher Has The Best Friend Group

Episode Date: October 23, 2025

Isla Fisher drops by the “bomb shelter” to chat with Dana and David about setting up David with her friend, all the A-list celebs she fills her time with, and how she got her big role in Wedding Crashers. She also shares stories from the set of Now You See Me: Now You Don’t. Plus she practices her pitch to Hello Sunshine with the guys. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Four o'clock's early for sex Feels like we should keep the momentum moving forward We've done the accent I don't want to run this podcast guys I'm too hung over My mom obviously given many Oh my God I'm just kidding I hope you don't cut your line out and then just leave me with that coat

Oh, yeah, that's a good way to do. You could just throw me out. All right, Dana, we've got Isla Fisher, the lovely and talented Isla Fisher. Everyone likes her. All the girlies like Ila. Never hear a bad word about her. Yeah. Great.

Started with, starting with, you know, wedding crashes for most people from Australia and comes out and does great. She's got, Now You See Me Coming Out. Is it called, Now You See Me? Now You Don't. It's the third. she was in the first installment now she's back she's got woody harrelson jesse eisenberg mark ruffalo mark ruffalo from you grill her about all these people and uh she really cracks under pressure yeah no she was she's the type that you could tell she's pretty much like she is

uh you would think he's upbeat fun yeah busting our balls a little bit and she was pretty kind i pulled out an Australian accent, which I go in and out of, and she was very, very kind about it. I think it was a little cartoony, but she loves Paul Hogan, and we really get into the small community of Australia and all these superstar performers, yeah. She was in person, and she stole your notes. I always let the guests look at my notes because they get a confused look like, what? Wait, you guys are preparing for me? We always prepare a little bit.

It doesn't seem like it. We do try to make it look easy, but it ain't easy. She is so fucking hard. But here she is, the lovely Isla Fisher. Hi, Bobby. Hi, I'm David. I've never met you before. I'll be the lead interviewer.

He's David. I'm Dana. Nice to meet you. Did you meet Dana ever? I don't know. I'm a shoot. We're opposites. He's a man about town and I just stay home.

And you stay home? Are you a man? A woman about town? I am now. I used to be a woman at home. Isn't it fun to do press on a movie and travel around? It is. The lighting's good, guys.

I like this for the ladies. Yes, you look. Are you lit? Are you okay with me happy with? By the way, I'm staying with my friend right now, and I was like, I'm doing a podcast. She 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, and then you texted at just like, I'll pick you up at 4 o'clock.

Nothing else, not like, hi, I'm dating. Me? Yeah. Oh, man. We are not starting with this. No, I was getting that's right before we start. It started and it's almost over. And it will be over after this blasphemy.

Hey, man, it's already on Daily Mail. It's all right on Daily Mail. Babe, pick you up at 4 o'clock. Who was it? Chelsea. It worked fast. No, it was not. I'm going to switch mine on too.

Don't say who it was. I'm just getting clear here for a second. Did you guys ever met before? I did meet her. I just wanted a big clarity. Many times. times. And she's always nice. No, I just said, have you guys ever met? I heard and I said, but I've been married for 23 years. I only just got, uh, yeah, so no, we only got what?

You know, separated, divorce. Do you feel happy? Not happy, but probably you're friends with Nicole Kidman. Now maybe she's going through something. Do you, you, you got, you got, are gal pals? I'm really, really, uh, shocked. I have left a message. I have not, um, connected yet. But I don't really want to comment on that because there are 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 shows I'm thinking about her. Yeah. Yeah, tough times to be in the public eye. I, luckily I stay underground. Literally, this was a few steps. 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. 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've got a Sandler album. It is like a bomb shelter. In a little bit, with good lighting. Well, we didn't want to overly bright it up because they said, I tell girls I'm 6'4, I'm really 64. That's a good line. That's my Tinder app. I go, oh, they messed that up. Wait, you're on Tinder? No, Ila, it's all far of the funniest.

Anyway, I'm glad I told someone I'd meet him at 4. I don't even know what I'd do it for. You just said I'll pick you up at 4. Well, wait a minute, I'm sorry, I missed the setup. She said she's going to set me up with someone. I said I've got a lovely friend that I thought would be nice because you were single at the time. Yeah. And he was like, cool, sure.

And so then I gave, I guess, digit over, anticipating there'd be some back and forth. Some kind of like, not wooing. Wooing would be too strong, but just a little pream. Nope, it was right into I'll pick you up before. And she was like, who is this? I said, I didn't know you were? And I said, I'm sorry, I meant I'll pick you up for sex. because I'm tired of what we've been doing so far.

We're just never having met. It's on Daily Mail right now. Four o'clock's early for sex. Oh, where's my notes, Heather? God dang it. We've done a lot of research. I carry my notes for an hour before you get here, and then it starts. Are they handwritten those notes?

That's intimidating. Yeah, here, you can take a look. Can I just read off? Heather, go through all 28,000 feet. Okay, I'm just going to start off by saying that There's no C in my name. It's Fisher, F-I-S-H, yeah. Oh, I misspelled Fisher.

This interview is... Eddie Fisher. Yeah, Dana. She's seen enough. Yeah. I know that part. Yeah, you do. Ila is your first name.

You were born in Somalia. No. You were born in Scotland. Is that wrong? Keep going. It's going to be... Australia? Scotland was the one I heard.

No, there's some weird place you came before Australia. O-Man. Where is O-Man, guys? It's a test. It's a geography test. It's in the Middle East, clue. Close to Saudi Arabia. You know it.

North of Qatar, east of Dubois, south of Iran. Where gingers, where short Scottish gingers end up being born. So what is your current accent? What would you describe yourself? I think it's Australian. I'm not sure. I mean, I know you had this long, long soap art.

What about a place called home? Was that what it was called? No, it's called Home. No, but there wasn't there a series called A Place Called Home? Or something like that, an Aussie series. Yeah, it was called Home and Away. Okay. Home and Away is like...

A place called Home is similar enough. But there was a separate... Maybe I saw your show. Yeah, were you in Australia? It's shown in like many countries, but I don't think it's shown... During COVID, he said he watched the series. You were wrong. I watched the series...

Or did you... Wolf like me? I don't know. Australian accent perfect for a while because I watched this Australian show. Okay, let's hear it. It's terrible now. Oh, come on. 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 it too hard. Oh, that was a bit cockney. I'd go to Michael Kane in a second. That is good. Fuck you, Bacolkate and back off.

Bye, Dave is Bokulcate. Oh, see, you do it right. You're the first. You know why the secret? What? Nasal. Yeah, block nose. But, yeah, you've got to get.

You are a headcoat, and that's what does Michael Cite. I know. You know, we can circle this around to the movie I'm promoting. So now you see me as money. Now you saw me, but you won't see me again. What's the title? Now you see me, now you don't. Okay.

All right. So this is a trilogy. This is the third one. You were in the first one. I skipped the second. Because you're having a baby. Yes. And now this one's coming out, November 14th.

Not on a streaming site. Movie theater. Surprisingly, it's going to the cinema. It's unbelievable. It's so nice to be in a cinema again. I mean, like, it's nothing better than watching something, you know, with the people. That's big star stuff because they save the big movies for, I love going to the movie still. Yeah.

I go to the Grove. At 4 o'clock you go with whoever you've texted. Whoever they texted that day. Yeah. And then I go. His new nickname is 4 o'clock. Yeah. His nickname is 4 o'clock.

At the end, it says, by the way, this is a mass email. And whoever responds. I heard of an actor. Oh, come on. I will tell you after, but it's an actor that would text girls and say, actively saying, the first girl that text feedback will get fucked.

And that was the, and they're supposed to fight for it. And that was supposed to be excited. And I was like, everyone's supposed to be jumping and, like, jocke. I want to know what the hit ratio of such an outrageously arrogant. It feels like low numbers. As a woman, do you think that's a turn on?

as a phrase. I'm pretty sure it'd say dial in, get a restraining order, at least reported to the police. Yeah. And to sag. Yeah, to sag. Because it's an actor.

Yeah, it's an actor. I'll tell you after, and you won't be shocked. You'll be like, that's not Nicholas Cage. I just wanted to announce that. Lower. Lower? I mean, not as big of us. But it's all rude.

So now you see me. Now you don't. Now you don't. And the third one is, is it called third one, or is it called now you see me? No, you don't. Actually, one of the very few talking points I was given when discussing this film is to not let you say, Now You See Me Three.

Okay. Oh, no. No, now you see me now you don't. Yeah, yeah. Jesse Eisenberg. Okay. What was the first one call? One word for these, your pals.

Oh, that's a good one. Jesse Eisenberg. Hilarious. Woody Harrelson. Adorable. Stone. Dave Franco. I'm adding my word.

BFF. BFF. Hot. Dominic Sessa Dominic Sessa Kind Ariana Greenblatt Sweet

Justice Smith Clever David Spade Handsome Oh right I stuck you in there for I put on a sweater Put on a sweater in the middle of fucking

So you also have Michael Cain In it briefly And Michael Kane right I'm wearing a blazer Tweed Blazer I know Both of us are schvitzing It looks nice

That's really Do you have a stylist? I'm serious I do I do So do I do So do It's called The Gap

I don't think people like it when you go Do you have a stylist? Well, they look so together It's like, look at Heather over there No, Heather does have us Heather's the cutest I saw that outfit right away Is he her shorts?

You reminded me of ACDC The lead singer That's what I said That's what Dana said No, it's the guitar player Yeah, guitar player In the school uniform With that little hat

Oh he's fucking Aussie Orsy Aren't those guys Aussie Ozzy Ozzy Ozie Ooi Were you ever on neighbors controversial question.

No, I was on home and away. Are they competing? We are regressing. We are regressing. No, no, no. It feels like we should keep the momentum moving forward. We've done the accent. I don't want to run this podcast, guys. I'm too hung over.

Fuck. You're hung over because you hung out. Let's talk about what you did last night. Chelsea. I don't really drink. I mean, I'm a mom of three. Not really. Not really.

If you do ingest alcohol, what is it? Well, it was an apparel spritz. It was two last. I two apparel. What? Why? Don't yuck my young. No, I like false

Is it because they're so sweet? I just don't like those kind of fancy, spritzy shineries. I like beer, I like beer, logger beer, I fosters. Is that because you feel it's more gender appropriate? More masculine, yeah, that's a feminine dream. So if you work in a completely neutral world

and no one can watch what you drink, so there's no one around. In your Gap t-shirt? This is a Gap shirt. Oh, shots fired. No, he said it. He said I wear a... I'm wearing a Gap t-shirt.

Yes, I don't just. I don't have clothes. Three for ten bucks. These are Gap pants, I think. Anyway, back to the movie. Yeah. Why should someone see this movie? Oh, 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 it's what we love. It's the team back together. The four horsemen. Yep. There's a few more. There's some ingenue. Horsmen.

There's ponies. There's ponies in this. And they bring, they're just fantastic. They're the great. actors and I feel like they just give a whole new, it kind of just re-invigorates the story. It's good to bring out. The trailer is great. I mean, I really made me want to see it because I love magic and I remember the other one. Well, magic's interesting because it kind of, it's a conflict of beliefs, right? You watch something and you know logically why it can't be happening, but yet

your brain is seeing it happen. And I think that sort of suspension and conflict creates sort of engagement. And how happy, I mean, in the trailer, like she's got some hope diamond or something And somehow Jesse Eisenberg has it and like... I've actually got the Hope Diamond. It's not the Hope. From when we shot the movie. They gave it to me, props gave me one. I didn't know it was a Hope Diamond.

But the magician tricks you and then like has a little face. Yeah. It's cute. It's the best movie. Honestly, I loved it. I loved making it. I love Reuben Fleischer. I love the cast. And I think people are going to love it.

It's like a great movie. It's fun. It's a good story. You know, finally, if you told it at a dinner party, if I just like, you know, once upon a time hit you up with the story, you'd be like, yeah, I want to see that. Well, the tie-in from magic, which is interesting, to bank heist, to distracting everyone with magic distracting for a bank.

It's all very cool and well done. Yeah. And the tricks we can do. We have this, like, amazing, like, team of magicians. And so everything that you see our characters do. Do you do them? Yeah, so one's a mentalist, merit, Woody's character. And then you've got an escape artist, myself Henley,

and then you've got the side of hand, and then you've got these different types of sort of magicians coming together, like a kind of Avenger group to, I guess pull off what is this massive heist against his character played by Rosamund Pike called Veronica Vanderberg and she's fantastic

I mean she's saw in Gong Girl and you sing She's doing what she does best That kind of arch, clever villain Do you split the money evenly? No, I got all of the money I paid everyone you know in snacks Everyone in the movie Yeah, just me

The characters split the money Oh the characters, I thought you meant my agent 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. Typically nice and legal. With Amex Platinum, access to exclusive Amex pre-sale tickets can score you a spot trackside.

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He can, like, 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 of got into it. But you're an escape artist, so how did you practice that? Oh, wait, wait. You get, the one I want, you're going to tell me, because you've told it too much, but I want to hear how scary water is because I'm scared of water. Are you really?

And I saw, I'm scared of like the ocean going in And I used to not be as a kid, now I am. And so I read that you got in water And I'm like, I couldn't, it would be too strict. I'm sure you've told the story before. You had a beautiful. 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 kind of more and more worn down and tide And you start using a bit of hyperbole. Oh, and you kind of go, yeah. Yeah, because it's like, I don't know, you get sort of slightly bored. And so I exaggerated a tiny bit, but then taken out of context. It's still scary just to be in water in a scene. In handcuffs. But there was a release switch, and the water could be drained in nine seconds or something.

So I was never in any genuine peril, but it did feel like at the time that it wasn't fun when I was like, oh, my little handcuffs are caught underneath like the steel bars. And I thought, this is less Little Mermaid and more just like middle-aged woman thrashing in the tank. Less Little Mermaid and more I'm going to die. So you have a stunt double who goes and does it first, right? Not on these. No. Not on the tank handcuff one?

In this movie, we did use stunt doubles for a few tricks, but not for many. Okay. But I don't want to do any spoilers because really the action is great. Have I spoiled it? Watch this. I was in a movie, The Wrong Missy. Hey, everybody. Oh, a few people have up.

But I watched it recently. One. I love it. You know what it is. It's so good. It did a billion minutes on Netflix. It was the greatest movie. I love The Wrong Missy and the girl was so funny.

She's so funny. So I'm in a shark tank into some dumb scene. And then we did it in a pool first. Yeah. And then they go, tomorrow, we do it in the ocean. I go, no, no, no. I go in it, in the ocean, in a shark tank. Where there's sharks in the ocean, but they go, this should not be where sharks are in Hawaii.

And I go, where do you know where sharks are in the ocean? So, they had to go under the same thing. So weird, because a shark gets caught in the thing with me. Anyway, very scary, and I relate to your story. And you know what the movie loves? When I say I almost died in it. The movie company loves that. Oh, they do?

They go, it's so great. Could you keep telling the story about how we didn't make you safe? I thought that potentially too, but then I got a kind of weird email. And then when we did another, I think it's in the movie actually trailer so I can say this, but we are in a tank again. And when we came to shoot that, there was a lot of his, Isla, are you okay? Isla, are you okay? You know how you get.

What? I'm Australian. I'm a surf lifesaver. I'm fine in this tank. I know when I had this, everyone goes, she's not going to like this. Water. I didn't even get that joke They're like very triggering

She'll be like What if I fell in it Yeah I couldn't Yeah couldn't bring Are Australians kind of like They seem badass to me You know like the Hemsworth brothers

Yeah You know the men are And they all do great accents Are you in that world Where you can just I mean I think there's just Not much call for an Australian dialect So we all sort of have

Great American accents It's fucking hard Yeah Russell Crow Is this extraordinary ear Yeah. Yeah. Were those guys, you run into pretty much all the Australian stars. Yeah.

Yeah, we do all hang out. It is like a bit of a koala mafia. It's like 16 of you, maybe. Yeah, it's like an Antipodeean gang. But we get the best ones. We get the best people over here. Like the best actors and actors wind up in our stuff. So just the ones that stay.

Do they want to get over here? Was that always the idea or not? Well, you know, they didn't used to be. It's improved a lot. But we didn't used to have that much sort of content, original content being developed in Australia. There are now more Australian filmmakers telling Australian stories

and we shoot a lot and a lot of American stuff 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 the arts and way more money the government puts a lot more money in the arts. They probably make more there than they do here

I mean they make more stuff there than they do in Hollywood anymore. Yeah well right now with maybe tariffs heading our way I mean that's terrifying You know there's all this okay the world's crazy whatever I always think of Australia you'd always move to Australia

I don't think you could actually Not just because of a t-shirt No, but because they don't let you in They're really strict. Are they really? Yeah. How strict? Because I've had friends who wanted to move

They fell in love with an Australian man And it was like they waited It's not so, you know Because they don't try to come ashore They have to go to an island first The immigrants is there an island they have 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 that topic Oh, okay, sorry. I mean, we can but I'm like I don't want to be Oh, immigration is like. I don't want to be the spokesperson for like. Anyway, now you see me, now you know, what's where it's the premiere. Easy to get in America.

Woody Harrelson is such a bag of fun. He is so fun. I love Woody. And Laura, his wife. They were great. And, yeah, and we play this really dumb game. We're like, we would all put our hands 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 going to think of a finger. Okay. And then you're going to guess which finger I'm thinking of. Okay. Okay. Pinky.

Who's pinky? Yours. Okay, so that goes down. You eliminate. And then we go all the way around. But my point is we're addicted to this game. It sounds so childish. It does not sound fun.

Sounds incredible. But we play it and Woody is like, he's manic about it. He's like, well, when he's playing the game. Is it about you're trying to. Eliminate everything. Yes. It's about how we communicate. But Dave and Woody have the best connection.

And they've honestly won like several times. And when you win the feeling, it could be a night shoot, it could be six in the morning. It could have been a way. It could have been on a stage in stilettos and you're miserable, but when Woody and Dave crack it, it's nothing better. It's like a mentalist thing. It's the idea.

It's like there's a tell you're giving, but you don't know you are? No, it's like the idea that you just guess what somebody's thinking. And it's just pure guess. Because mentalists will do this with all these different tricks. I don't want to know. They have like a little like. I don't want to know. Wait a minute. They cheat.

Don't tell 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 things I, because I'm too smart. and that's one of my favorite lines he is actually pretty right and I like to be tricked it's one of the few things you go holy shit and I'm tricked literally every time and so even movies like yours I like to watch that stuff it's a great twist in our movie you're gonna love it I love it because they those movies are very thought out because everyone's guessing ahead yeah I had I've seen David Blaine do it in real life oh my gosh he's done it and every time he does anything I don't know I have no idea what's me neither none and mentalist On TV, I've seen lately on Instagram. And when I see those.

On Joe Rogan's show, it's another podcast. Look it up, kids. They did, they guessed his phone number or his social security number. Oh, wow. Yeah, they do. They do tricks where you go, I don't know. They do it. I'm glad I don't.

But one time the guy goes, here's a Stanley Cup. And then he goes, and then at the end, he goes, where is it? And he goes, check your ass. And it was all the way up my ass. And I didn't even feel it. You else was there? My car keys. Let's look at a clip.

For a clock. That was the best joke ever. PG-13. That was so good. I'm trying to clean it up quietly. But also a Stanley Cup. It's so ambitious. It's big.

Yeah. You could have gone with a magic wand or something related. Once you get to the handle, it's easy to go. Yeah, that's what I was at. I was out. Where's the handle going? Handle first. Other than that.

Four movies all of a sudden. Yeah. Because that's extraordinary. I mean, some of them I'm in small. I'm only in like one scene in J. Kelly or two or three. Oh, are you in J. Kelly? Yeah, just a little bit. I just did it because it's Noah Baumbach and it was shooting in London and Italy.

And it was like an honor to be on set with him. It's great. Yeah, Adam Sandler's and he's great. And George Cloone and his amazing car. Did you see Adam at all? I did. Oh, you did? Are you in a scene with Adam?

I mean, one scene with Adam, but his character is sort of, it's an audience scene. So we're all separate. But I did have a nice time with him. Yeah, yeah. Was he all right? Yeah, he was really happy. And I met him and Jackie came over. We did the, like, you know, I saw them a bunch.

Oh, great. Okay, so spa weekend. Yeah, that's really fun. Yeah. Those two are hilarious. That I'm not, I think it's Mother's Day, actually. Okay, and what was that about? It's why I watched your movie, The Wrong Missy.

Because my character, basically, I watch, in my character, I play somebody in every friend group, there's one friend that nobody likes, and every lady friend group. But they get included and invited everywhere because, you know, it's a sense of. Is that you? You go, what part of mine? They're like, the one, everyone hates me. Yeah, but you know what? I would have had my feelings hurt, but when I got the offer, I was with my daughters,

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 gratification, I would have spiraled. But also, you play. I would have, because it's such a, like, the characters literally, they want rid of her the entire time. I love it. That's funny part, though. Yeah.

That's a great part. So then I looked at all these kind of characters. I didn't end up using, because what I created in the end is, much more, like, and keep it. They made bad moms and the hangovers. So it's, like, it's rated PG-13. So it's like a moderate version of a bunch of different. What voice did you use?

Just an American accent? Oh, just my American accent. Okay. Yeah. Could you just go into that for a certain and go back? Yeah, like that. I just talk like that the whole way through the movie. God dang.

It's so much harder, I feel, to talk Australian. Yeah, because you really got to ape in your mouth wide and see your eyes and the land is hard. Have you ever run into Paula Hogan? Yes. Is he still kicking around? Hokesy is everywhere. Where's Hokesy been? We have these gala's in Australia.

Australia's in film and we have these wonderful like where we celebrate each other and, you know, because Hollywood doesn't celebrate each other enough. So we get together. Hey, let's not go there. We go, yay, we're all together, Australians. And fucking Hokesy comes down. Yeah, we have a barbecue. It's only a barbecue.

That's your knife. It's a knife. I know. He's so brilliant. Yeah. Everyone. Oh, I got a question for you. Yeah. This is Australian trivia.

Uh-oh. Were you at Moulon Rouge premiere? I wasn't born then. God, damn. You're mad for Bass. I was there, and then I just pulled it because that would make me older. Super old.

Well, she was in the Great Gatsby. No, I'm kidding. I remember when it came out. You remember when it came out? Because I was there. I went to it. Nice. And Baz was there. Well, Baz directed me in the Great Gatsby,

which was one of my favorite experiences on. And you love him. I love it. I love it. Brilliant. Love him. I love the sets. I love these,

costumes. And everyone loved Mulan Rouge. Everybody. And Strictly Borum, the one before. I mean, everything he does is. Did that sort of blow him up, Strictly Ballroom? Yes, I think that was what really... And then Mulan Rouge kind of went worldwide. Yeah. And then he just stayed big. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Playdate, our friend Kevin James. Kevin James. Kevin, what's his problem? What's he about? Yeah, what's his friend? Kevin's great. I know. I bully Kevin in this movie. Is he the baby in it?

He plays a man baby. He's not a man baby, but he's the comic. How is he compared? I don't know. Is it parents get together for play dates for the kids? Right, and I play like a Mama Mafia type, and he comes to my park on my turf. Oh, yeah, I like that.

And so I'm like, what do you do? I call him a pito. It's like a bunch of like really rude jokes against him. When we shot it, we thought it was an ah. There was a lot of fun, had a lot. He slung some. you know insults at my character I slung some at his

he was great I loved working with him very very nice just calm yeah very good dude we did grown up she's a very nice guy yeah he did play date's a good catchy title yeah I haven't seen it so I'm sort of like two word titles are fucking boom yeah that's what you want yeah

do you feel like I'm just getting to know you now like you get some kind of off-kilter parks like you're going against the grain yeah you consider yourself a character actor in a way or both but you seem like I feel like I'm a bit more of a character actor I feel really lucky about that you know who's a character actor Daniel Craig Daniel Craig is a character actor because of the movie glass well 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 and he's having a martini and he's in a tuxedo I said are you never not a character but he's just he's done character parts obviously when he does what we have here is a mood

and then when you see him his face can be a little goofy or he does his bond his whole body changes and he becomes really handsome Are you interviewing him today? No, I'm just applying you to him as people who are chameleons

and can just disappear Believe me, we're getting a little Daniel Craig heavy for a second I was with you I was like, Daniel Craig's invited on the podcast He's a little like this No but he makes a very handsome face He's very handsome face. He is handsome anyway, but he does a bond face, a prone face that just is very cool.

I'm just a huge fan of him too, even before Glass Onion. On stage, by the way, he's really apparently unbelievable on stage. Sweet guy. What's? Would you like to do? I'm a serious actor talking about serious. Your dream part. Your dream part.

I'm thinking Gary Oldman in Churchill, would you love to do something with prosthetics where you just completely disappear? Absolutely not. Oh, you say, no, I love it. Because, you know, you've got to go in so early. And I have, like, a bit of ADHD, and I don't know if I could sit down and have it, like, really applied in that way. If you do just a nose, you could win an Oscar.

Yeah, if you put on, you could play Ronald McDonald. You could just a nose? Well, you have the hair color. I've always had the feet, too. I've always had very large feet. Oh, my God. Yeah. Are we getting this?

I know. I mean, they're not that. I mean, I suppose I have small feet, but I feel like I wish my feet was smaller. You think they're small? Are you saying? I've been told

they're small but I feel like they should be smaller. Well, what? Do we have any numbers? This is going to trend you don't understand

our audience. Small feet My feet are fine. Are those swayed? They're fake swayed. Okay, Dana. Do you have a stylist?

Yeah. Oh, I already asked that. I'm sorry. Are you already back to page one? My notes are I don't know. Oh, really?

You wrote a book with your mom at 18 Come on, is that made up? No, that's true. Is it fiction or nonfiction? It was like a, Y, A, young adult, they called the genre. But it had sex scenes in it. And I was only, yeah, I was like 18. And so I hadn't even had a boyfriend at that point.

So it was quite awkward with my mom pitching quite racy things that I would. 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, oh. Now, there was one novel, there was Bewitched. And seduce by fame My first hand job Yes, I'm sorry, I'm reading it wrong

Seduced by fame My first hand job My first, my mom had obviously given many Oh my God I'm just kidding I'm just kidding I hope you don't cut your line out And then just leave me with that coat

That is really annoying You could just throw me out Fuck yeah Oh who are your best actress buds Over there It can be American too Is Chelsea one of them Who are my best actress buds

Like your actress friends? In life? Yeah Oh my gosh, I'm so lucky You meet a ton of people Recently I connect Michelle who's in my movie Spire Weekend She Michelle Boutelle? Yeah

Yeah, yeah Absolutely love her I think she's hilarious Great Every movie She's obsessed Annabel Wallace Obsessed Nally Portman

Love love love Love love She lives in Natalie Portman You know her She's great She's the best She's kind of off the race

She's kind of off the right I mean she doesn't She's not She's brilliant actress You don't see her a lot As herself She's kind of a pistol A kicking her pants

Or we don't see No because you know why you don't see her because she lives in at the moment in France, in Paris. Oh. Yeah. So she's not like... Why she and was it there?

Do you know French? Yeah, but... Yeah, she has a little tiny fee. Yeah, she has a little bit. Fake French? No, I speak French. You were doing it. You were doing it.

You were doing it. He was doing it. He was doing it. Yeah. It's nice. It works well. Well, she look all too bad. When I do, I think...

You're never said, oh. Fake-seater. Do you stay in touch with Scooby-Doo? With Scooby-Doo. Well, he's an animated character. No, he's not. We do Scooby-Doo. You do Shaggy.

I do Shaggy, and he does Scooby-Doo. Okay, give me a topic. Anything. Warren I ran. Is there a Warren-I-Ran? No. She clams up. Here's a different one.

Do you a topic. Here's another one. I don't know any topic. You don't know any topic. Is the topic? G, scoob, I don't know what to talk about. The world's on fire. What are we going to do, Scoop?

Zoy. Guys, that's amazing. See? It's just Casey Kasem. We've got Ila Fisher on the show. She didn't have a scene, her name, Scoop. I didn't know what to say. You fucked up.

She noticed it right up with that. I don't know you can swear. We're just G-rated cartoons. Best changes ever. Everything, Scoop. Let's hump something. Scooby's horny. They cut it out of the final stuff, but

always dry humming people. Look and we keep going like this. What's not going to offend her? No, it's fine. No, no, listen. What's this book? Have you guys read that book or is that just like a prop? To make you look deep.

I think it's an SNL book, isn't it? Is it the SNL book? Oh, nice. I didn't read it. I skimmed it for pictures of me. With your two, you'd ever auditioned for us now. Did you do SNL? No, I was supposed to do S&L.

She would be great on that show. And right after Hot Rod, because. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And then I can't remember what I was doing. I was on the press store for confession. Oh, was it a confession of a shop? I can't remember.

I didn't end up doing it. But I am an avid fan. Sorry. Do you believe that, did they kind of make overtures after a hot rod? Like, hey, would you like to maybe come on the show? Or do you were going to audition or where did it go? That's so good as lawn. The thing about Eila, you'll find that she's fair.

About what? I'll let you know. Fair is a good one. No, he's great. But she wouldn't have been a cast member. I've seen you now. I mean, you're built for that show. But you're a movie star, so it doesn't matter.

I would love to do that show. I would love, love, love. But you could do it again. I mean, well, I think you should host, host. I'd love to just do a skit. I just like 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? 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. Like, were you there with Blaine, David Blaine? No, am I.

Oh, went down there? Yeah, I feel like you were. I sometimes, yeah, maybe. The after party? Mm-hmm. The after party. The after party. Yeah, after party.

A lot of the people with Boston accent in this particular area. Wait, where did you and Chelsea go? Do you go out of dinner and drink? Yeah, we went to Wollies. We just went to Wollies for dinner. Oh, Wollies and Beverly Hills? Yeah, it was really nice. Is that good?

Is that cheese platter is amazing. Amazing. Obviously, it's like a cheese place. Do you just eat cheese and then drink us out of it? No, we actually really broaden our horizons. We did Capaccio, we had like some of that special octopus, and then we split a burger. Oh, great. But you know what I will say? Don't let them give you the gourmet tomato sauce.

It's not good. Just ask for the straight-up ketchup. Oh, yeah. Sometimes you try to gussy it up here. It's just like it's, it loses its... What's your self-care habits? We're down to the nub. Sorry.

We go back to the movie. We've got 30 seconds. 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 Chelsea Handler. I'm hearing spritzers.

I'm hearing cheese. But you look pretty good. Darn good. You must have some habits. Anxiety just, I get nervous and then I'm not that hungry. And then you're not hungry. Yeah. And we have to, before we get you out here and get you an Uber, we have to say, oh yeah, for wedding crashes, do you audition for that?

Or do you get asked to do it? or do you have to go in there and read? No, I read like, I think five times for wedding crashes. With Vincent? No, no, no. With Lisa Beach and... Was that casting? Yeah, I don't.

And maybe Dobkin and maybe Andrew Panay. I can't remember. Is Dobkin the director? Yeah. David Dobkin? Okay. Yep. And then you go and they go crazier or less crazy, whatever, whatever.

Because that really... No, they actually didn't see her as that crazy. I think they wanted her to 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 Glenn Close from Fidel Archer and then he just was great David's so 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 work better that she was more threatening than she was like... A little unhinged. Yeah. God, it's such a gift when they let you

such a gift. Such a gift. And when they give you this space like it's like one thing if they go oh okay you can do a take but it's another thing if they like they give you the process where you just feel like

you can take the space and you're not like annoying anyone by doing another. Yeah. That's a worst feeling when you, there's everyone the crew's watching. Can I do a take?

Then you do it. Yeah. All right, moving on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No comment. All right, we're gonna, we're gonna. Are you done with your take? Yeah, yeah.

That's a wrap, everybody. That you know that was funny, great. That's your one. As long as you thought it was good. All right. It's a wrap. But I would guess Vince Owen would be up for that and laughing in a good audience too.

Yeah, and they love. And they really fun to, yes. Because they're smart enough to know. If you score, they score it's all if the movie works and bradley cooper was in that which i keep forgetting yeah was in that uh great in that too just another side character it's funny as shit yeah and the combination of all that was a such a hit it just that's one of those ones at last yeah those uh knots it was like 2008 or one of those hits those will feral movies those big comedies with

those guys did a few and they're just big and they stick around and it just always on your resume it's nice to have one because it's as you know because that was probably early on. It's just always hard, as much as you go into movies like this will be a hit, it's not, it's hard to get one than really just all the way through stays funny, through the editing, through the test screens. You're like, holy shit, is this actually staying good?

Yeah. And Owen was really funny. Yeah, and it changed actually my career because until then I felt like I hadn't really done comedies before and I wasn't really like considered for them and then I got like a whole other. Did you get a lot of do that? Like be that girl again?

Oh no, I was lucky I had like a, I've always been with this wonderful agent from Oh, that's good 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 I don't challenge myself

And I've been doing the same part for Since the beginning But it's fine It's good It got me this doomsday shelter Movie stars kind of do the same And someone meets you at three o'clock Somebody

Oh it's moved up to three o'clock It depends on if I'm Pacific or Central I kind of do a wide net I just hit the Rockies in this side so horrible whatever that story All right

Born in Somalia We'll just wrap it up Born in Somalia It's spent early childhood in Scotland Oman or Eman Oman Oman We were ever in Scotland Yes I did spend time

I have a 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 Paris And then I ended up living On two continents

over the course of... First day of school. Ila, you dropped one. See you tomorrow. It was clown and mime school. Yeah. Was it Mime too? I was like, I just had the feet for it.

Just wear your own shoes. Yeah, I didn't have to put on the big shoes. How fun. Mime school, what haven't you done? Written books, giant movies. It's too much. The resume, it's getting rid of. We start working at nine in a couple.

commercial? Yes. Is that an Aussie? That's a 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. Then I kind of peaked by 12. And then I went dormant to a while.

And then I went dormant and then I sprung back. Do you have siblings that went into your business? No, no one in my family. My mom's like an academic. My dad was worked for the UN. My brothers are now in hospitality. I'm the only, I'm the only ginger sheep in the family. You're the only one with ginger hair?

No, my brother's got ginger hair. But I just mean instead of black sheep, I don't know. So, Dana, you have a massive house. Obviously, I have a little tiny shack that, you know, it's just humble. Is 2,000 square feet massive? So when you need home security, which a lot of people do, it's not a bad thing. I always watch something online that shows someone got, And they always have video amount front, which is better to have video.

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There's no safe, like simply safe. Did you ever have people doubt you, like high school teachers, or, well, if you want to do this, a tough career, you know, or your dad or a grandpa or something like, you sure, I'll, you make a great dental hygiene. I mean, something practical you can hang your hat on. You get a check every week. You think you're going to be a mood. Movie star. Listen, little girl.

Did you get some of that? Most people do. I swear I didn't. Everyone was helpful. Everyone was backing you. Because that's the first thing David said to me and we met. I said, you're never going to make it. He's already on SNL. He's 10 years younger. And I was like, who is this kid?

You're never going to make it. So, God, you've had such a cool career. Are you friends with Prince Harry? I'm not friends. I've seen him at a pop concert, but I'm not doing. He's not on the Red Hair Charrums. Aren't they married? That's the same team.

I'm just, I'm looking for a bang or a clip or something. And I'm like, tiptoeing, cautiously around the edges. I know, we got to immigration, divorce. I mean, I'm not going down. Please get it. No, he is married to Megan Markle. Yeah, oh, really? I did not know that.

It's in all the papers. Oh, wow. And they are, uh, they live in Santa. Well, you're off to London, I heard. Are you? A little bit of me. By the way, thank you for coming in because I know you're running running. I'm going to London to me.

night. I know. You came and I appreciate it. No, are you kidding? Thank you for having. I swear to God, I appreciate it. I've been staying at guys, by the way. Is that where you stay hilarious? Where was there? No, Gallagher in the other room? The last time I went over there, I got to see the Oasis guy. Oh. You weren't there. Sorry. You were running around. If you're, I mean, there's just why people, questions I'd ask anybody. Okay. Just tell, say, pick one. Beatles, Led Zeppelin. Beatles. Oh, wow.

Beetles, Beatles, Pink Floyd. Beatles. Beatles. You're right so far. Eagles. Oh, Beatles. Beatles, Queen. Oh.

Beatles. Okay. I know Queen do more diverse sounds and they had a different era that was really fascinating. But the Beatles are just... No, I'm with you. They're the OG. There's only the Beatles. There's nothing to even compare.

They can't be with it. But a lot of people have a soft spot. Queen is, you know, kind of almost still underground in a way, what they achieved. Yeah, right. Audially. But the Beatles are. Well, Queen was unreal. It's just, it's not, it can't be the Beatles.

If you run into my friend Paul McCartney, you know, tell him, you know, now you see yourself. Now you don't. It's a tricky movie. You're like, here I am, you know, now you can't see me. It's a real banger. Sorry, go ahead. I'm trying to do. He's really brilliant.

He's so good. He has to get to 10 voices. Do you really? No. He does a lot. Oh, that would be a great shalong. Just like set that goal at the start of an hour. You could do a liver puddle.

You could do an accent if you're given one. Yes, yes, yes. But I do obviously study it like specifically. I couldn't just like, I'm not, I don't think I could just hear like an accent and mimic it back. I mean, I could, but it wouldn't be accurate. I don't know. It's really continual exposure.

It says I'm constantly looking at Beatles stuff on YouTube. I just amuse myself. I'm constantly hearing that. Well, let me ask you. Beatles? Daniel Craig. Good one Daniel Craig is like

He's the Tom Jones Yeah I can feel it A felt it from you I got that I got one last one Beatles Drowning in handcuffs 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 you laugh Sean Conry The late grade

John is asked Whether he enjoyed his vacation Yeah In Spain Ready Yeah That's it. You know what, you can't, it's just flawless.

You don't need more. Yeah, flawless. You make three syllables out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I like that too. Visually entertaining. As you dislocate your head.

Yeah. Yeah. We should do an improv group called the coconuts. Hey everybody. Why would we call the coconut? I don't know. I don't know. What's the worst thing we can have for the impok?

But like this three of us, we would have to have something that was more sort of like a, The triple coconuts. She's Isla. I'm David. Grapes. We're more of a great, a bunch of, a small bunch of grapes. Yeah. Yeah.

That's not as catching. We'll never be a coconut. Mm. Yeah. All right. Well, Isla, thanks for coming by. I appreciate your time. My flight's at 805, but I'm actually going, I'm going to pitch a movie right now.

Are you from here? Yeah, I'm going straight to Hello Sunshine. From this high? Yeah, from here. Will you just pitch us and for a practice thing? This comes out in six months. Oh, no. What if it doesn't sell and you curse me?

You're right. And what if I do my lug line and you guys like, why would you? No, we're not like that. Just practice on us because you're about to go. Okay, so. Okay, we're executives. All right, what are you got? This actress is doing a podcast in a bunker.

First of all, we're here. Podcast in a bunker. And there's an earthquake. So, Isla, what would you like to do in a movie? I'm a studio executive. Yeah, you're making me. I don't like when you're making me squarely. It's going to not bring me good luck.

Don't tell us to pitch, but have you ever been in a general meeting and how dumb they are, where they go, we're setting you up with the head of Paramount because it's just a little general and then they have nothing, they go, no, what are you up to?

What do you want to do? I'm like, I want to be in a big fucking movie. Can I leave? Yeah, yeah. What is this movie? I had one recently. A guy says, what do you really want to do?

On a big platform, on the Zoom, you just send it to me. So I sent him the script, pshu-shared him off. Forty-five days, nothing. But he's like, we're such fans, we want it.

I sent him the script, Rato Silence. We'll make literally anything you think of. He sends them off the finish script. Except that. Written on spec. He didn't even have to pay for the development. Yeah.

I don't know. Here's my guess because I, you know, you're a mentalist in the movie and now you see me. Now you don't. Everywhere in theaters, November 14th. Your pitch is about, I see a young woman. Yep. There's a young woman who has two babies, lives in Manhattan.

Oh. And works for the New York Times. Uh-huh. And she undercovers a plot. Right. to make Australia into, to lift it off the ocean floor and make it into kind of a boat. Yeah, because it's on a tectonic ridge. So it becomes like a...

So it becomes disliked. Yeah, that's exactly my pitch. Exactly. And I play one of the plates, you know, the plates underneath the ocean. They go, you're not the woman. You're going to know, I'm a plate on the ocean. And in the end, they're friends. It's a deeper role.

Yeah, very deep. Yeah. Okay. In the end, they're friends. Oh. That's the key. That is the key. And it's not men-centric.

They're not searching for... No, it's not going to be a bunch of dudes. Yeah, they're not... The smart people are girls in it. Okay, Dana. We'll find something for you on it. All right, thank you. This is the longest wrap-up, but thank you for coming.

Thank you for having me, you guys. Thanks for fitness into your... You know, like how I had my notes when I found them? It was dumb anyway. I didn't really nothing. Now you see me. Now you don't. Now you see me.

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