Interview with Jason Isaacs

Interviewer: Ben Shephard

Transcript by KJ

JI: Luscious Malfoy, he’s such a delicious character, I think, more as Luscious than Lucius. 

I’ve been living a public life as, ah, you know, as a Diplomat, Aristocrat, and stuff, but secretly, I’ve been campaigning, and working towards my

Lord’s return, and now I’m in my element, of course, cause he’s back.

 (clip from the movie)

Lucius Malfoy: You know, you really should learn to tell the difference between dreams, and reality.

JI: We were a secret organization, you see, I couldn’t help but reach for my wand, there, um, but we were a secret organization and ah, and the occasionally

We made forays into public, like at the Quidditch World Cup,

But now the kid gloves are off and the battle lines are drawn and there’s no point being hidden anymore which is a great relief for Lucius,

Because he can actually, finally, show his nasty side, given that I’ve been so cuddly up till now.

JI: We have seen the kids, well, there not kids anymore, but you saw them when they were kids, training to use wands, and their training at School to

use these things, their pretty basic maneuvers, but you finally see what happens when, you know, the equivalent of Jedi’s, when the Wizards,

Who really know what they’re doing, come face to face.

JI: Sirius and I have a fabulous wand battle, and in order to do that they brought in a dancing coach, and a fight coach, and we…..

 Ben: So a Choreographer?

 JI: Yeah, and we worked out, there’s always a fight choreographer, but what we had to do was find a way of fighting with wands that wasn’t traditional fighting,

That’s not Sword fighting, and it’s not, ah, it’s something other. 

JI: So they’ve invented a vocabulary, a kind of physical grammar, of what you can and can’t do with wands, and ah, we’ve come up with 5 attacks and 5 defenses, and various ways of doing it… 

Ben: Specific moves? 

JI: Specific moves, but then you start tailoring them, so obviously, Lucius Malfoy, being who he is, he’s got great form, he’s kind of an Olympic Fencer.

Sirius Black has his own streets style, and stuff he’s picked up in Azkaban.

(clip from movie) 

Lucius Malfoy:  You saw only what the Dark Lord wanted you to see, now

                           Hand me the Prophecy.