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Jason Isaacs announced a ‘terrible confession’ about the Harry Potter films.
The actor, currently playing in season three of HBOs The white lotusis perhaps best known to the masses as playing the ominous Lucius Malfoy in six film adjustments of JK Rowling’s Wizarding World Books.
While the portrayal of flying cars, game chambers and quidditch has had the world in choking for decades, the actor burst the bubble during an appearance on BBC series The one showTo say to the hosts, “They were not so nice to make.”
The British star acknowledged that it was “a terrible confession to make” because of the strength of the Fandom – but he expanded by saying, “It’s quite boring to make a big film for special effects.”
Isaacs did not have the same experience as he sat down to watch the films, with the actor saying, ‘The pleasure came afterwards. I see and meet people for whom their lives have been changed by it, and people read it and share it with their children.
“Some people say that their lives have been saved by it, and I believe it.”
Isaacs said he loves to be part of the franchise that when he visits the Harry Potter sets at the Warner Bros Studio tour, he ‘bursts into tears’.
“Even though I was in the films, when I was godchildren or nephews and cousins to the [studio tour] And the thing comes up and suddenly you are in the great hall, every time I burst into tears, ”he said.
‘It’s incredibly moving and overwhelming. There is a little magic that happened in those stories. “
He continued: “Something happened, who knows why, when the ingredients gathered and the soufflé got up and just created love around the world and a sense of inclusion.”
Potter Fever wipes Hollywood again thanks to a high-profile TV series that will be a decade on screens.
HBO and Warner Bros are behind the new project, which according to their own words ‘many rumors and speculation’ about who will play the primary characters of the show.
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The new series is another direct adjustment of Rowling’s book franchise, with each book that exists one season. This means that a new group of actors depict roles previously played by stars, including Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Rickman and Maggie Smith.
The decisive calls for the three young clues opened in September 2024, with unknowns who will become household names after being played in the roles of Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
But well -known actors are being explored for the older character, with the only confirmed cast so far John Lithgow, who will play the head of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore.
