Mmmm Delicious
Sep. 5th, 2006 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarotgalAn excerpt from an interview with Jason Isaacs:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/PKGG2KQDQN1.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment
I especially love him admitting to Lucius-the-drag queen *EG*
Q: Speaking of age gaps, were you surprised by how much your Harry Potter character took off? People love Lucius Malfoy.
A: People always love the bad guys. And Lucius is rather delicious. He delights in his power, and the audience delights in his delight. Also, when you've built someone up to be so unbelievably supercilious and arrogant, there's pleasure in seeing him humiliated and brought down a peg or two.
Q: Plus he's pretty.
A: I like to think so. When I have my costume on, I imagine myself to be this great supermodel beauty. And then I see this hideous old man in a wig.
Q: Oh, no, no, no. Just no. The campy villains you play -- the Captain Hooks and the Lucius Malfoys ...
A: They're half a step away from drag queens, let's face it.
Q: Not even a half-step. That's the beauty of it. They are drag queens.
A: They are! It's because I can't sing and I never got to play Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," which is obviously my vocation. I know every syllable of "Rocky Horror."
Q: Please don't sing them, because there's a little game I want to play with you. It's a prison game.
A: Oh, God.
Q: It's called "Who's the Bitch?" It goes like this. Maximum-security prison. Shared cell: Lucius Malfoy and Captain Hook. Who's the bitch?
A: What do you think went on in the public schools? The captain's an old Estonian. He wouldn't be allowed to have a hook, so he'd only have his one hand to protect himself. Oh, no. Lucius would win. Lucius has got magic. With one wave of his wrist, he'd conjure up a whole army of thugs.
Q: OK. Shared cell: Lucius Malfoy and Col. Tavington. Who's the bitch?
A: Tavington would have Lucius for breakfast. Skin him alive and hang him.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/03/PKGG2KQDQN1.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment
I especially love him admitting to Lucius-the-drag queen *EG*
Q: Speaking of age gaps, were you surprised by how much your Harry Potter character took off? People love Lucius Malfoy.
A: People always love the bad guys. And Lucius is rather delicious. He delights in his power, and the audience delights in his delight. Also, when you've built someone up to be so unbelievably supercilious and arrogant, there's pleasure in seeing him humiliated and brought down a peg or two.
Q: Plus he's pretty.
A: I like to think so. When I have my costume on, I imagine myself to be this great supermodel beauty. And then I see this hideous old man in a wig.
Q: Oh, no, no, no. Just no. The campy villains you play -- the Captain Hooks and the Lucius Malfoys ...
A: They're half a step away from drag queens, let's face it.
Q: Not even a half-step. That's the beauty of it. They are drag queens.
A: They are! It's because I can't sing and I never got to play Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," which is obviously my vocation. I know every syllable of "Rocky Horror."
Q: Please don't sing them, because there's a little game I want to play with you. It's a prison game.
A: Oh, God.
Q: It's called "Who's the Bitch?" It goes like this. Maximum-security prison. Shared cell: Lucius Malfoy and Captain Hook. Who's the bitch?
A: What do you think went on in the public schools? The captain's an old Estonian. He wouldn't be allowed to have a hook, so he'd only have his one hand to protect himself. Oh, no. Lucius would win. Lucius has got magic. With one wave of his wrist, he'd conjure up a whole army of thugs.
Q: OK. Shared cell: Lucius Malfoy and Col. Tavington. Who's the bitch?
A: Tavington would have Lucius for breakfast. Skin him alive and hang him.
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Date: 2006-09-05 03:08 pm (UTC)*giggles*
I knew there was a reason I liked him!
BVB
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Date: 2006-09-05 06:37 pm (UTC)And it's made even more bizarre to me because of the fact that, for the longest time, he was the one I had in mind when I tried to imagine what Thranduil might look and sound like. I've managed to shake that image (mostly), but it still pops up from time to time.
I would choose him over many other options that have been discussed over at Thranduil Lovers Anonymous yahoo group to play Thranduil when they finally get around to making 'The Hobbit'. I would still prefer a lesser known actor, and I'm not a big fan of mixing the LOTR and HP worlds like that, but I wouldn't be upset.
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Date: 2006-09-10 04:58 pm (UTC)