Jason Isaacs Interview - a short Q & A with J.I.

Summary:
TV Week for 2/8/04 printed a couple paragraphs of comments by Jason Isaacs.

Article:

On their TV Q & A page by Taylor Michels, the second question concerns Jason Isaacs. (The first is about Sheila Tousey).

Q. Jason Isaacs, who plays Captain Hook in the new movie "Peter Pan" looks very familiar to me. Where might I have seen him before? -Bonnie Solomon, Denton, Texas.

A. Isaacs, 40, has been appearing in films and television since the late 1980's in his native England, but on this side of the pond audiences tend to recognize him from two prominent roles, as villainous British Col. William Tavington in Mel Gibson's "The Patriot" and Lucius Malfoy, the arrogant father of Harry Potter's nemesis in "Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets".

While fans are begining to take serious note of the handsome actor from Liverpool, he says he has relished being a working actor who is not yet a celebrity. "The people I met and worked with who have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives, " Isaacs says. "And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am. I can go on teh tube and bus and wander through the streets. So I'm quite happy not to get the girl".

Pg 42 The Denver Post * TV Week * Comcast * February 8, 2004


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