Isla Fisher in Home and Away: Shannon receives a threat

Isla Fisher’s Hollywood career has often revolved around manic pixie roles. Her first big part, in The Wedding Crashers (2005), had her sweeping the six-foot-five Vince Vaughan off his feet – literally, and repeatedly. Subsequent movies like Definitely, Maybe (2008) and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) played up her natural comic abilities, which she also showed off as a recurring guest in the TV show Arrested Development (2013–19).  

However, Shannon Reed, the character she played on Home and Away for three years, was put through the dramatic wringer. A foster child and abuse survivor, she struggled with an eating disorder, relationship turmoils and her ruthless biological mother.  

In this scene, Shannon, a budding writer, fearlessly confronts a crooked builder (Silvio Ofria) whose shonky work has caused a collapse at her school, endangering the lives of her friends. On the pretext of interviewing him for the school paper, she gains access to his office and berates him about the accident with a self-possession beyond her years.  

Over the years, it was revealed that Shannon was bisexual. In her exit from the show, she chooses Mandy, an older lesbian writer, over her boyfriend and moves with her to Paris.

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