He said, 'Just think about it over the weekend'. "I said to my agent, 'When they call, tell them no, thank you very much, I am about to go play Captain Hook'. One of the films stars, Jason Schwartzman, has worked with Anderson more than half a dozen times, which made us want to reach out to NPRs resident movie expert Bob Mondello. "I was about to go play Captain Hook and didn't want to do two children's villains.
I was mightily pissed off when they asked me would I mind reading for a different part. In an interview promoting his latest film The Death of Stalin, Isaacs told Digital Spy: "I didn't audition for Lucius, I auditioned for Gilderoy Lockhart. He is particularly known for his performances of imperious screen villains in the early 2000s such as Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films (2002-2011), as well as William Tavington in Roland Emmerich's The Patriot (2000), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), and The Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels (20142016) and Pinball FX 3 (2017).
We’ve all come to associate Jason Isaacs with playing the bad guy, mostly from taking on the role of Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter series, but also for his villainous roles in A Cure for Wellness, The OA, The Patriot and Peter Pan – plus in animated films, he’s voiced Batman villain Ra's al Ghul and Superman’s nemesis Lex Luthor.īut it turns out that in the past, Isaacs didn’t want to become synonymous with playing the baddie, and in fact went for an entirely different role in his audition for Harry Potter.
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