Isla Fisher: 'I wished I was back in Home & Away'

Isla Fisher: 'I wished I was back in Home & Away'
Isla Fisher: 'I wished I was back in Home & Away' (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Isla Fisher says filming Burke And Hare on location in Edinburgh made her wish she was back in Home And Away. The wife of Sacha Baron Cohen, who played schoolgirl Shannon Reed in the Aussie soap, said the freezing nightshoots on the comedy about bodysnatchers made her long for Summer Bay. She said: "It's so funny because every one always says to me, 'You've come such a long way from Home And Away', and that's one of those few times when you think, 'Oh I wish I was back on Home And Away - on the beach, not in this freezing castle.'" Isla starred in the sun-drenched show between 1994 and 1997, and has gone on to act in several Hollywood films. Her appearance in Leicester Square was her first red carpet event since giving birth to her second child with Baron Cohen. Her co-star Andy Serkis claimed the new film shows that Burke and Hare were not simply killers, but were pushed into crime by the doctors who demanded bodies for research at the time. He said: "It's a satire and you can actually rather intelligently use humour to make the audience question what their motives were and what the greater conspiracy is, which is that they were pawns in the medical industry." Watch a clip of Isla Fisher playing Shannon Reed in Home and Away:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0-2I-yzfXE&fs=1&hl=en_GB

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.