Tavington, the nasty redcoat who pursues Mel Gibson in the Revolutionary War drama The Patriot. Isaacs' roll call of villains ranges from Captain Hook in Peter Pan to Col. Isaacs and McCrory have a history of playing the bad guy. There's no character in Potter which is off the shelf. "They all have destinies they are struggling with or bonds that they're breaking or internal challenges. "All her characters are rounded," Isaacs said. Such real-life complexities have helped make Rowling's books worldwide best-sellers, with 450 million copies sold - and enriched the experience of the movies' cast, which includes a roster of distinguished British actors. "And you don't need to go too far in America, either." "You don't need to look very far in Europe nowadays to see politicians nowadays standing on those platforms and seemingly reasonably gathering an awful lot of followers and votes," he said. Isaacs said Lucius speaks "the language of separation, the language of racism, the language of eugenics." Staunch allies of Voldemort, they uphold what they see as the purity of wizard ways and wizard blood against the influence of ordinary humans, or Muggles. The film reunites Isaacs with Helen McCrory, 42, as his wife, Narcissa Malfoy, and 23-year-old Tom Felton as their son, Draco, Harry's classmate and bitter rival at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Isaacs returns for a sixth and final time as the black-clad, blonde-haired warlock in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the last film in the magical saga, which opens around the world Friday. "Voldemort sees the way the world ought to be, in his own eyes, and is trying to make it that way." "No one is ever bad," said the disconcertingly genial Isaacs, in jeans and a casual shirt looking nothing like the supercilious Lucius. Even arch-villain Lord Voldemort is not so much wicked as misguided. So it comes as a surprise - it shouldn't, but it does - to hear the British performer renounce evil. LONDON - So this is the face of evil: Ice-blue eyes, an imperious brow, the sculpted features of Lucius Malfoy, the Muggle-hating wizard supremacist and implacable foe of Harry Potter.Īs Malfoy, 48-year-old actor Jason Isaacs has plumbed his character's dark heart and chilled millions of moviegoers since he appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in 2002.
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