![]() He would be this evil father, then they would say cut and he would come and give you a cuddle and go, ‘Did I hit you too hard?’” “In fact, working with Jason was not always a treat. “Working with Jason was a real treat,” he said. As actor Tom Felton put it, Harry Potter’s enemy Draco “is a product of his parents, and he’s got really bad parents.”ĭuring the reunion special, the actors opened up about working with each other as onscreen father and son, with Felton calling Isaacs a “Jekyll and Hyde” of sorts. Lucius is far from the only villain in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and he serves a much greater purpose than just scaring young students (and viewers): “The point of him being in the story, to me, is to explain why Draco was such a horrible, heartless, sadistic bully at school,” Isaacs said. READ NEXT: Daniel Radcliffe Reveals His Secret Harry Potter Crush The part of Gilderoy went to Kenneth Branagh. ![]() “I read through gritted teeth, deeply bitter, and of course, that’s exactly what was necessary and they asked me to play Lucius, and thank God they did,” he recalled. ![]() Ironically, his contempt for the audition won him the role. “I thought, ‘Well, I don’t want to play two children’s villains,’” he said. Isaacs admitted that he auditioned for Gilderoy Lockhart, the charming but fraudulent Hogwarts professor, but director Chris Columbus asked him, “That was great, would you mind reading a different part?” When he found out that he needed to read for Lucius, Isaacs was hesitant, as he was already cast as Captain Hook in 2003’s Peter Pan. “I’m convinced I ended up playing Lucius because I didn’t want to,” he said. In fact, he was actively against playing the role at first. 1 on HBO Max, actor Jason Isaacs revealed that he didn’t mean to audition for the role of Draco Malfoy’s scary and militant father. During the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts reunion special, which premieres Jan. Lucius Malfoy is so evil that even the actor who played him in the Harry Potter saga didn’t want to be Lucius Malfoy.
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