Jason Isaacs admits that the process of filming the Harry Potter movies was actually “quite boring.”
During a recent interview on BBC’s The One Show, the actor looked back at playing Lucius Malfoy in six of the eight blockbuster films, which starred Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
“It’s a terrible confession to make, they weren’t that much fun to make. It’s quite boring, making big special effects films,” he said. However, it’s what came after the movies that was most memorable.
“The pleasures all come afterwards,” Isaacs explained. “I see and meet people for whom their lives were changed by it, and still people reading it and sharing it with their children. Some people say their lives were saved by it and I believe it”.
He continued, “There’s something [that] happened — who knows why — when those ingredients came together and the souffle rose and it created just love around the world and a sense of inclusion.”
Isaacs, who is currently starring in season three of The White Lotus, appeared in Chamber of Secrets, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Draco Malfoy’s (Tom Felton) sneaky and cruel father.
“Even though I was in the films, when I’ve taken 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,” Isaacs added. “It’s incredibly moving and overwhelming. There’s some magic that happened in those stories”.
Though the film franchise, based on J. K. Rowling’s books, wrapped in 2011, a television series is currently in development at HBO. It’s set to start filming this summer.
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