Isla Fisher: Fat Comedy Is A Feminist Issue

Our favourite Home & Away alumni-made-good, Isla Fisher has spoken out against Hollywood’s gender-skewed comedy business.

The perky redhead reckons – and she’d be right – that the big studios are less than enthusiastic when it comes to greenlighting big ticket comedies with women in the leading roles.

“I realised after Wedding Crashers there aren’t that many comic opportunities for women in Hollywood,” Fisher, who was the breakout star of Wedding Crashers, a 2005 comedy headlined by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, said.

“All the scripts are for men and you play ‘the girl’.”

Fisher has managed to get two of her pet projects bought by studios – the reasonably self-explanatory Groupies, and The Cookie Queen, about a 30-year-old girl scout – though in typically right-on fashion, the noted feminist news outlet News Ltd has made a point of suggesting her newfound “clout” is because she is Sasha Baron Cohen’s wife-to-be.

The ironing is delicious!