"Blades of Glory" marks the directorial debut of the commercial directing duo Will Speck and Josh Gordon and stars Will Ferrell and Jon Heder ("Napoleon Dynamite") as Olympic figure skaters forced to compete as a team after being banned from the singles competition.
As with "The Office," "Blades of Glory" pairs Fischer up with actors who love to improvise. Fischer enjoys working opposite actors who can mix things up a bit and who don’t stick to reciting the script. “I love improvisation because I like to be able to contribute creatively a little bit more than just memorizing my lines,” said Fischer. “But I actually like absorbing improv from other actors more than I like trying to come up with the clever thing myself so it’s a good match. Will is very, very smart and very good with improv, and I just try and react appropriately. That’s what I enjoy.”
Fischer has nothing but nice things to say about "The Office" star Steve Carell and Ferrell from "Blades of Glory." “Will Ferrell and Steve Carell are in some sort of secret contest to be the nicest, funniest man in Hollywood so going from working every day with Steve Carell to working with Will Ferrell is like a dream come true,” said Fischer. “Will Ferrell is so funny, and you know one of the things that surprised me is he’s so brilliant with improvisation but he also comes to work incredibly prepared. He knows all of his lines. He knows everything he wants to do and I think that’s the thing that gives him the freedom to play around and improvise. He’s really a professional and so nice.”
Balancing TV and movies is something Fischer finds enjoyable. “Television and movies are so different. TV has a real routine to it and movies are sort of like short-lived projects where it’s sort of like a blitz. You make the movie in this one amount of time and then you wait a long time for it to come out. But television, you’re making it and it’s airing, you’re making it and it’s airing. They both work with very different speeds and it’s interesting to do both.”
As for what we can expect from "The Office," Fischer isn’t sure what’s in store for Pam and is just as curious about what’s going to happen as are viewers of "The Office." “I love Pam. I love getting to be Pam and I’m so excited that I get to be her for another year at least. I don’t know what’s in her future. We finished out this season but there’s a lot of questions that have gone unanswered still. I’m going to be very curious to see what happens next year”
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After having finished shooting part of the film in Montreal, the cast and crew of "Blades of Glory" moved back to Los Angeles to complete production. The DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures comedy will hit theaters in 2007.
