From the very old to the very new! Big thanks to our visitor Kate (I tried replying to your email Kate but it bounced back!) for pointing out there are some new candids of Isabel about! She was snapped out hiking in Runyon Canyon in Los Angeles a couple of times in late September, and looking so pretty whilst doing so. I just love her look on September 25th! It feels like ages since we’ve had new candids, although I am very pleased she is able to mostly maintain her privacy.

I know you’ll enjoy these, so here you go …

• September 25th, Los Angeles x5
• September 26th, Los Angeles x5

As I mentioned in our previous update earlier today, I recently came across some short clips from miscellaneous Home & Away episodes on You Tube, and I have now added screencaptures from them to our Gallery. They are all clips from episodes that are not available in full, and most of them are from Isabel’s first few months on the show. The quality is very poor, but again, better than nothing.

The last one (Miscellaneous Clip #8) is particularly cute – Tasha and Robbie’s first kiss! – so I will point you directly to it here on YouTube.

• Miscellaneous Home & Away episode clip screencaptures

It’s a cold (almost-)winter’s afternoon here, so what better escape than some old Home & Away?! Screencaptures from another 4 episodes have been added to our Gallery for your viewing pleasure. Again the quality isn’t ideal, but they’re better than nothing, I think!

For those interested in specific episodes, we now have caps from all episodes I can find up to #3902. I will continue on searching and capping from #3902 onwards now. I’ve just come across a few miscellaneous clips from older episodes on You Tube, so I will probably add them next. They’re short clips from episodes that unfortunately aren’t available in full, but young Tasha is so lovely it’s definitely worth adding them.

I’ve also changed around the Home & Away gallery section so the screencapture categories are a bit more organised.

• Episode – #3882 x101
• Episode – #3883 x56
• Episode – #3888 x84
• Episode – #3890 x37

Everything is quiet in Isabel-land at the moment, so I thought it was a perfect time to get back into screencapping Home & Away! Over the past few days I’ve added caps from another 5 episodes, which are listed below. Most of these are from about half way through her time on the show, and she looks adorable! I will be continuing to go through available episodes from #3882 onwards, so expect another batch of caps to be added over the next few days.

Admittedly the quality of the screencaptures is not ideal, but I still think we’re lucky to be able to get so many of Isabel’s episodes, so I hope you can enjoy them regardless … I know I do

• Episode – #3977 x5
• Episode – #4103 x67
• Episode – #3877 x113
• Episode – #3878 x129
• Episode – #3881 x140

Congratulations to Isabel for landing another big Hollywood role! I’ve just come across some reports that say she is filming a new movie in Los Angeles entitled Electric Slide, and her management Meissner Management confirm this on their Facebook page. (Note the picture they’ve used for the information on that Facebook page is sadly not from the set, it’s actually from Earth Hour earlier this year).

This independent drama will co-star Jim Sturgess, Chloe Sevigny and Patricia Arquette, and will be written and directed by Tristan Patterson. (Ewan McGregor and Carey Mulligan were previously attached to star). The synospsis is as follows:

Based on the article “The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World’s Great Bank Robber”, written by Timothy Ford and published in Gear Magazine, “The Electric Slide” tells the true story of suave hipster and celebrity-magnet Eddie Dodson, who in 1980s Los Angeles owned and ran one of the city’s most stylish art deco furniture stores. Celebrities flocked to buy the latest pieces and Eddie was living the high life along with the Hollywood elite.

But when Eddie met cool and unimpressed Jenny, he decided to do the most outrageous thing he could think of to win her attention— he robbed a bank. Eddie discovered in himself the uncanny ability to charm pretty bank tellers into emptying their drawers of cash and getting away with it. And Jenny discovered that a boyfriend who robbed banks was about as hot as it got.

Over a period of months, Eddie and Jenny robbed over 70 banks in the Los Angeles area, often narrowly escaping the increasingly frustrated FBI. When the authorities interviewed the tellers who had been robbed, each of them described Eddie “like a movie star, the most charming man they had ever met.” The media, jumping on the story, dubbed him “The Gentleman Bandit”. But Eddie’s criminal lucky streak would not last forever as the FBI closed in and angry loan sharks with unpaid debts threatened his life.

Even better, this casting call advert says that Isabel is the film’s #2 “so she will be working quite a few days” … I am presuming this means she will be 2nd lead (behind Jim Sturgess), which is the character of Jenny, going by the synopsis! This is great news for Isabel, and for us fans.

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More official videos from The Wedding Party have been uploaded to their YouTube channel, and you can watch them below. HD screencaptures will be added soon!

THE ENSEMBLE – BEHIND THE SCENES
The cast of THE WEDDING PARTY talk about what it was like to work with the ensemble.

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I just came across this review of The Wedding Party from Variety and thought it was worth a share:

The Wedding Party

The ripple effect of an arranged marriage on an extended, problem-plagued Melbourne family is explored in director Amanda Jane’s ambitious, fitfully amusing “The Wedding Party.” More satisfyingly measured and significantly less exaggerated than Aussie comedy often plays, the film nevertheless features a sprawling narrative and various plot holes that conspire to raise as many questions as are answered. Its frank views on contempo relationships will gain it some traction locally, although partying days will be limited overseas.

Pic opens Oct. 11 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, long after the film’s July 2010 preem as the curtain-raiser for the Melbourne Film Festival. Rushed through post to meet that deadline, it was felt to play long at 116 minutes and was subsequently trimmed. Though beautifully shot on 35mm in widescreen by Katie Milwright, the recut was processed, and will be exhibited digitally.

Twentysomething Steve Thompson (Josh Lawson) goes all in at the craps table and finds himself on the brink of foreclosure. Answering an ad in the paper, he collects $25,000 to marry Russian immigrant Ana Petrov (Isabel Lucas) so that she and her hotheaded b.f., Vlad (Nikolai Nikolaeff), can stay in the country.

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A couple of weeks ago I noticed a couple of tweets about Isabel being in the music video for Ed Sheeran’s new single:

I haven’t read or heard anything since, but be sure to be on the look-out for this! I’ll post anything else I may hear….

Check out this fantastic new interview with Izzy from the Cairns Post today! In it she talks about Cairns, Sea Shepherd, her agent Sharron Meissner, and – most excitingly of all – her experience on Knight Of Cups. I don’t know about you, but I’ve missed hearing from Isabel, so I really enjoyed reading this!

You can also find it in our Press section now too.

Acting out for the environment

She may be one of Hollywood’s hottest rising stars, but Isabel Lucas remains true to her Cairns roots with her environmental passions.

She’s just wrapped up filming alongside Christian Bale, Natalie Portman and Cate Blanchett, but Isabel’s mind is hardly on Hollywood.

Rather, it’s on the Coral Sea, and the Kimberley in northwest Australia, and off the coast of California… in fact, anywhere the environment is under threat.

The experience of filming alongside three Oscar winners and under the guidance of a director she idolises is barely enough to distract the former Cairns schoolgirl from a passion equal to acting.

While her stomping ground is a far cry from her home in Los Angeles, a move that has helped fill her resume with feature films Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Immortals, The Pacific and Daybreakers, the plight of the Far North’s marine environment remains a priority.

“I feel we are so lucky to experience living in such a beautiful part of the world,” Isabel says of Cairns.

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Check out this great behind the scenes featurette from The Wedding Party, in which the actors talk about their characters.

The Wedding Party was released in Australia yesterday! I hope all our Aussie visitors are planning to go and see it this weekend If/when you do see it, feel free to drop back in here afterwards and tell us what you thought of it…

Isabel looked extremely pretty in pink at the Los Angeles premiere of Nobody Walks on Tuesday night! She walked the red carpet in a little pink dress with a flower embroidered on the front, with red lips and her blonde hair subtlely clipped back. Isabel accompanied her former Home & Away co-star Rhys Wakefield to the premiere, as he appears in the film. (Speaking of the film, you can read about it here if you want to.) I really love this look on Isabel – I think everything looks just right! What do you think?

Over 70 beautiful HQ photos have been added to our Gallery for you to enjoy. Big thanks to my friend Luciana for helping me get most of them.

(Doesn’t she have such a lovely little smile!?)

• “Nobody Walks” Los Angeles Premiere x72

We finally have a release date for The Wedding Party! The official twitter for the film announced that it will be released in Australian cinemas on October 11th. Aussie fans, be sure to go and see the film then, and drop back in here afterwards to tell us what it was like! It’s received some good reviews, and is meant to be a very funny Aussie comedy. Isabel plays the Russian wife-to-be Ana in it.

We are thrilled to announce the long-awaited release date for THE WEDDING PARTY. Coming to Australian cinemas from 11th of October 2012.

— The Wedding Party (@TWPfilm) August 30, 2012