Isla Fisher stars as Rebecca Bloomfield in the new comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic about a young girl with an out-of-control shopping addiction. Mega-producer Jerry Bruckheimer also collaborated on the project. They shared the inside scoop on the making of the film and how it stays true to Bruckheimer’s usual explosive-action films.

Q: What was the most fun fashion discovery you made while making this film?

Fisher: The most fun fashion discovery was to use a lot of color in my wardrobe. I am fairly conservative normally, and I feel like Patricia Fields (the costume designer) brought out the color in me. I now love to wear color.

Q: Who are your favorite fashion designers?

Fisher: Oh wow. A part of this business obviously is the pageantry of red carpet and you get dressed by incredible designers, so I'd have to say I love Stella McCartney. I love Vivienne Westwood. I love Zac Pozen. I tend to go for more kind of classic [designers]. I love Prada. I feel very blessed to wear any of those dresses.

Q: How did you develop the talent for physical comedy?

Fisher: Actually, I trained at a theater school called Jacques Lecoq in Paris where Simon McBurney who's a very famous French clown – well he's English, actually – but where a lot of the theatre Complicite troupe train. We focus on comedy, dell'arte and mime. So technically, I definitely learned the skill set but just personally, I've always been someone who loves to tap into their inner idiot. I've always been the clown of my family, and I've always just enjoyed mucking about, and I'm just fortunate that I get paid to do that now.

Q: Did you feel any added pressure playing the lead?

Fisher: Obviously I'm very surprised and eternally grateful to Jerry Bruckheimer and completely bewildered as to how I was lucky enough to be chosen to head my own movie. I definitely felt far more responsible for the tone of the movie as a lead than you do as a supporting cast member where you can sort of come in and muck about. On top of that, playing a beloved character from a book that's extraordinarily successful and knowing that she was now going to be American and wanting to just capture the essence of her as properly as I could added more pressure, but ultimately, when you have an incredible producer like Jerry Bruckheimer behind you and a really amazing cast; it was just an amazing, rewarding creative experience for me.

Q: Do you think shopping is better than a man?

Fisher: No. No. I shop rarely and poorly. I definitely appreciate men more than stores.

Q: Can you tell us how you think the movie will be received?

Fisher: Obviously, this movie was conceived during a different economic period and the lessons that Rebecca Bloomwood learns in the movie, we have all been learning recently. So it feels very topical. I’m really proud of the responsible way we handled it especially at the end of the movie.

Q: This is not your typical Jerry Bruckheimer film, Where are the explosions?

Bruckheimer: We have explosions. We have a closet explosion.

Q: Why did you and your production company decide to do this film?

Bruckheimer: I think we loved the character. Becky Bloomwood's such a unique, fresh, interesting young girl who embodies a lot of what young girls around the world deal with. They deal with their credit cards. They deal with their workplace. They deal with a job that they don't really like and how to get out of it. I think it's a real empowerment; it's empowerment for women. This girl comes through the movie, starts out in one place and ends up in another place much more positive than where she started. She finds romance. She finds something she really loves doing.

Q: Jerry, which of your producing skills carried over to this movie?

Bruckheimer: It's all about the character and the screenplay. That's the key to everything; tell a good story. And fortunately we had a terrific novel to work off of, so that's a great help. How we put the movie together, the director we chose, the cast that we chose; it's what a producer does. It's putting the whole package together and convincing Disney to make it. Those are all things that help these things get made.

Q: What did you see in Fisher?

Bruckheimer: Well, you see it on screen. She's vivacious, funny and a wonderful dramatic actress, which this movie wouldn't work without; the ability she has to pull that character off and see that she is serious. The comedic part, we saw what she could do in Wedding Crashers and some of her other work, but the real surprise is that she's a wonderful dramatic actress.

Q: Do you believe a scarf can bring you love?

Fisher: Absolutely.