Jason Isaacs: I bluff that I’ve seen classic films
JASON Isaacs has admitted that he is “bluffing” about his film knowledge and has failed to use his time in lockdown to catch up on all the classic movies he has claimed to have seen.
The actor, best known for playing Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, has appeared in hundreds of movies and TV shows but confessed he has still not seen some of the classics.
He told the PA news agency: “One of the things that has driven me mad, I was definitely going to catch up on all the films I’ve never seen, because I bluff when I’m around the cinephiles that I’ve seen all these films by Kurosawa and Truffaut and I haven’t seen any of them.
“I’ve got a service that I pay for that I can watch but my kids will only watch Grey’s Anatomy.
“It’s all they will watch, they will watch 100,000 episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, it’s very good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not that good that that’s all you’re going to watch, so I haven’t caught up on the films.
“I will have to continue to bluff when we talk about cinema.”
Isaacs can next be heard voicing the role of Dick Dastardly in the animated film Scoob! which also features Mark Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried among the cast, and said: “I have spent a lot of years insisting that I avoid moustache-twirling villains because I try to create threedimensional complex, recognisably human characters, but Dick Dastardly is the quintessential moustachetwirling villain.
“So I went as far over the top as I could dare to go.”