With age comes knowledge, or at the least the attention of when to let a stunt double do a scene for you. Possibly it was finding out the which means of demise on The White Lotus or only one too many accidents on the set, however Jason Isaacs is greater than prepared to let stunt professionals stand in for him in a manner he wasn’t in his youthful years. Living proof, he had a very nasty spill whereas filming Harry Potter, and was knocked out whereas filming a scene.
Isaacs has talked rather a lot over time about Lucius Malfoy and stepping into the thoughts of the evil father of Draco. This included his scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and techniques, by which Lucius makes an attempt to assault Harry after he causes him to inadvertently free the Home Elf Dobby. The elf launches the elder Malfoy clear throughout the corridor, and as Isaacs revealed to Collider, that scene was notably violent behind the scenes:
They constructed a little bit of rubber cobblestones. All I needed to do was the final 3 or 4 inches. And I used to be so annoyed at not doing the pull that after I did that final 3 or 4 inches, I did it with unimaginable violence and knocked myself out.
Jason Isaacs has nothing however love for Johnny Flynn, the following man to play Lucius Malfoy, and I guess he hopes Flynn will not make the identical mistake when filming that scene. I watched the scene after studying about this, and it does not appear as if they used the take the place he knocked himself out.
Jason Isaacs is perhaps one of many few actors to file a staff’ comp kind with “CGI” being the rationale for harm, and I am positive he had loads of ideas about fan efforts to free Dobby after they visited the studio lot in 2015. I nonetheless cannot recover from the truth that he wasn’t extra critically injured whereas filming that Chamber of Secrets and techniques scene contemplating how a lot airtime he caught from the stunt.
Dobby’s assault on Lucius was fueled by years of pent-up rage, I am positive, but it surely was additionally utterly justified. As loyal Harry Potter followers doubtless know, Lucius Malfoy was about to unleash the killing curse on the kid for costing him a Home Elf. Isaacs later stated the spell was uttered as a result of he did not know what else to say, and he is gotten all types of flak from followers since.
Whereas Jason Isaacs has since deferred to stunt doubles for his motion scenes, he hasn’t stopped having accidents on the set. Individuals reported that Isaacs ran right into a door on a yacht whereas engaged on The White Lotus Season 3 and ended up knocking himself out. I am starting to suppose that is much less of a stunt drawback and perhaps extra of an Isaacs drawback?
In any case, we love Jason Isaacs at CinemaBlend and hope he may be extra cautious on units going ahead. If I hear one other story about him knocking himself unconscious whereas filming a scene for one more challenge, I will begin to fear!