‘Harry Potter’s Lucius Malfoy Actor Jason Isaacs Reveals a Heartbreaking Fact That It Was Not Fun Making the Movies

Jason Isaacs is best known for giving life to Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film franchise, and has said something that will probably make you shed a few tears if you’re a fan of the wizarding world. In the same spirit as his character in the movies, Isaacs is not exactly joyful when he reminisces about playing the character and says that the movies “weren’t that much fun to make.”

Isaacs was featured on the BBC’s talk show The One Show, where he spoke about his career. Having appeared films like The Patriot and TV shows like The OA and, most recently, The White Lotus, he played the antagonist Lucius Malfoy in six of the eight Harry Potter movies. Lucius is the father of Draco Malfoy, Harry’s enemy throughout his run at Hogwarts. Although Isaacs wasn’t typecast for his role in the Harry Potter universe, it’s undeniable that Malfoy is one of his most important characters in terms of raising his Hollywood profile even higher than it already was at the time. Nevertheless, it seems that he just didn’t have the time of his life when making the movies about the young wizard:

“Even though I was in the films, when I’ve taken the godchildren or nephews and nieces to the tour, and the thing comes up and suddenly you’re in the Great Hall, every time I burst out in tears. It’s incredibly moving and overwhelming. See, there’s some magic that happened in those stories and in those books, initially in the films, it’s a terrible confession to make–they weren’t that much fun to make because it’s quite boring making big special effects films.

“However, the pleasures all come afterwards when I see and meet people, for whom their lives were changed by it and still people are reading it and sharing it with their children.”

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Every decision taken from now on will face public scrutiny. J.K. Rowling’s involvement is already a controversial subject, but the casting decisions seem to be the ones that make the Earth shake whenever rumors surface. A few days ago, the incredible John Lithgow confirmed the rumor that he had been cast as Dumbledore in the new Harry Potter series, seemingly being offered the role after first choice, Mark Rylance, was unable to accept due to personal tragedy. At the time, the internet blew up. We can’t imagine what will happen when HBO finds some of its other iconic leads, including the boy who will have the burden of following Daniel Radcliffe as the titular wizard.

Harry Potter

Summary

The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). It is the highest-grossing film series of all-time in inflation unadjusted dollars, with $7.7 billion in worldwide receipts. Each film is in the 35 highest-grossing films of all-time in inflation unadjusted dollars.

The series was produced by David Heyman and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the three leading characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Four directors worked on the series: Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell and David Yates.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final novel in the series, is split into two feature-length parts. Part 1 was released in November 2010 and Part 2 was released on 15 July 2011.

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