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 Walk Hard is a send-up of the musician biopics from recent years including Walk the Line and Ray. Even though Fischer didn’t really sing for the role, she still got to act out performing on-stage. So did she call upon any musical influences? “I am really musically illiterate,” she admits. “I was listening to a mix CD the other day that my friend had made and a different friend was in the car and I turned on a song and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh listen to this band, I love them they’re fantastic, I want to get more of their music!’ And they were like yeah, that’s The Clash. And I was like they’re fantastic; I hope they keep making records because I just think they’re great! And they’re like, yeah I can get you a few albums of that. So I had no idea. Growing up I watched a lot of movie/musicals. My mom had a lot of movie/musical things and she listened to Barry Manilow, so I didn’t have a very hip musical upbringing.” In an industry where funny lead female characters are few and far between, Fischer stands out as a true talent. She realizes the shortage in the industry today. “I think there was a time when we had people like Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton and Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn,” she says. “These were women who were starring in movies, they were female driven films with female protagonists and they were funny and they were the leading lady. I think about a movie like The Jerk and think they would never cast somebody like Bernadette Peters in a role like that today. It would be like some leggy European model or some like beautiful singer-turned-actress. It wouldn’t be a real comedic actress. I think there’s a little bit of a comeback now and I’m happy for that. People like Tina Fey are leading the way and people like Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig is a great example. So I hope that we’re forming like another little troupe and I think it would be really great if eventually we could trick people into coming to see our movies with just us and not have to have a male star at the head of it.” Better still, according to Fischer, will be when comediennes can stop worrying about looking pretty and just let the humor speak for itself. “I think the one thing that women face is we still have to be hot,” she says. “There’s still a scene where we’re in our bathing suit. And men when they take their clothes off it can be funny but when the female funny girl takes her clothes off she still has to have these abs and these rockin’ legs and also be funny. And I think it’s like that thing Ginger Rogers said--I’m doing it all and ... |
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