Being Lucius Malfoy

  December 1, 2002 at 8:35 PM ET
      MuggleNet
 


On Halloween Sci-Fi Wire posted an interview with Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) which we never posted. It's really quite interesting how he describes being an actor during the Quidditch scenes:

"My first day [on set] was going to Quidditch," Isaacs said. "I was sitting in the Quidditch stands with Alan Rickman and Miriam Margolyes and Warwick Davis, and various extras who were all playing witches and wizards. And the assistant director was saying, 'Right, OK, Harry's nearly got the snitch, Harry's nearer.'... And you were doing kind of Wimbledon acting with your head." Isaacs mimics the assistant director's tone: "'But Draco comes in ... and the snitch!' ... And one of the witches turned to one of the other witches and said, 'What's a bloody snitch?'"

Isaacs added, "In normal acting you're kind of dredging up these complicated emotions, and [meanwhile] we're all there dressed as if we were going to a Halloween party, following an imaginary boy on a broomstick fly around in the air. I thought, this is too much fun to get paid."

Working with his young co-stars "I think [was] the most fun, because the kids don't disguise their response the first time," Isaacs said. "The first time I did a scene with [star] Daniel [Radcliffe], he went, 'God, you're going to talk like that?' and I said, 'Yeah,' and he went, 'That is soooo cool.'"


Thanks to C F.
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