Isaacs at Length - Again

  November 20, 2002 at 5:56 PM ET
      UKHarryPotter
 


USAToday features yet another interview with Jason Isaacs, and there's very little need to say that it is as hilarious as ever.&br;&br;"For the dark-haired Jason Isaacs, the opportunity to don a long blond wig was a sizable enticement to play the ruthless wizard Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. &br;&br;'I had white-blond, waist-length hair that tickled the top of my buttocks,' says Isaacs, 39. 'Blondes do have more fun. You have a lot of fun when you have a wand as well.'&br;&br;The chance to play a nasty villain in a blockbuster (the movie grossed an amazing $88.4 million in its opening weekend), appealed to his inner warlock. In the book and film, Malfoy, the sneering father of Draco, Harry's youthful archenemy, also has a house elf known as Dobby, a kind of magical indentured servant. The 3-foot-tall Dobby, with his giant aqua eyes and ski-slope nose, was computer-generated. &br;&br;'I could do whatever I wanted to do to Dobby, and they could erase it on computer,' Isaacs says. 'I could kick him and smack him. I bashed him on the head with my cane and tripped him up.' &br;&br;The English actor generally managed a more contained cruelty as the elder Malfoy. &br;&br;'When you stick a wig on and a giant wand and cape, it's pretty easy to get really Gothic,' he says. 'If there's anything subtle about (my performance), it's due to (director) Chris Columbus reining me in, saying, 'Could you pull it back 80 or 90%?' Lucius is actually a volcano of resentment and rage.'"&br;&br;USAToday.com
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