Isla Fisher has opened up on working on paranormal comedy Blithe Spirit whose set might have been haunted.
The actress, best known for her roles on Wedding Crashers and Confessions of a Shopaholic, stars as Ruth Condomine in the movie adaptation of Noël Coward’s play of the same name.
Isla Fisher Thinks The Set Of ‘Blithe Spirit’ Was Haunted
“There were a few moments that we thought that the ghost of Noël Coward was walking among us,” Fisher said in a segment of The Drew Barrymore Show.
The actress gave Barrymore a few examples of the creepiest moments spent on set.
“One day, Leslie [Mann] had to play the piano and there was a door behind me and it just slammed shut, but there was no wind that day,” Fisher said.
“And then another time, during the séance, the lights went out mysteriously and there was a power outage which no one could explain,” she continued.
Fisher then said that Coward might have haunted the set because of the way Blithe Spirit departs from the original 1941 play in the last act.
The movie revolves around Charles Condomine (Stevens), a writer suffering from writer’s block. During a séance, a medium (Judi Dench) accidentally summons the spirit of Charles’s deceased wife Elvira (Mann) which complicates things with his current — and very much alive — wife Ruth, played by Fisher.
Isla Fisher On What Drew Her To ‘Blithe Spirit’
"I was so attracted to this material cause it’s Noël Coward and the wit and wordplay of that 1940s plays he wrote was so influential when I was a young actor,” Fisher also told Barrymore.
“It’s from a different era and there was something very charming about that,” she continued.
The movie also stars Judi Dench, Emilia Fox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Adil Ray, Michele Dotrice, and Aimee-Ffion Edwards.
Isla Fisher recently appeared at the Golden Globe Awards alongside her husband, actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. The couple zoomed in in the hybrid ceremony hosted for the fourth time by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Cohen won the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for his role on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. The film also won in the Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category. Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, who plays Borat’s daughter Tutar, was nominated but lost to Rosamund Pike for I Care a Lot.