Jason Isaacs has a “terrible confession” about the Harry Potter movies.
While audiences worldwide were dazzled by the magic of the franchise, the Lucius Malfoy actor, 61, revealed that the movies weren’t as fascinating to make.
“It’s a terrible confession to make, they weren’t that much fun to make. It’s quite boring, making big special effects films,” Isaacs said on the Monday, February 24, episode of the BBC’s The One Show.
“The pleasures all come afterwards,” Isaacs continued. “I see and meet people for whom their lives were changed by it, and still people reading it and sharing it with their children. Some people say their lives were saved by it and I believe it.”
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Isaacs played Draco Malfoy’s cunning father in six of the eight Harry Potter movies released between 2001 and 2011 starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.
According to Isaacs, while there were a lot of special effects involved in creating the magic of Harry Potter, seeing the grand sets of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in person remains a joy.
“Even though I was in the films, when I’ve taken godchildren or nephews and nieces to the tour and the thing comes up and suddenly, you’re in the Great Hall, every time, I burst out in tears,” Isaacs said. “It’s incredibly moving and overwhelming. There’s some magic that happened in those stories.”
The British actor is currently starring in The White Lotus season 3, which is set at a fictional hotel resort in Thailand and was filmed in the Southeast Asian country.
Isaacs revealed last month that filming sex scenes in the heat was also not that much fun.
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“We’re doing intimate scenes, and you stink,” Isaacs said of the conditions on set for the anthology series in an interview with Time published on January 24. “By the end of each day, we’re just caked in sweat and makeup. You can peel your clothes off with a trowel. It melts your fillings.”
Isaacs wasn’t the only person on set to notice the conditions. Michelle Monaghan noted that the rising heat in Thailand was unlike anything she ever experienced before.
“It’s the hottest I’ve ever felt,” Monaghan, 48, told the outlet. “So we’ve definitely endured a lot.”
New episodes of The White Lotus air on HBO Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
