Lucius Malfoy Actor Jason Isaacs Says ‘Harry Potter’ Movies ‘Weren’t Much Fun to Make. It’s Quite Boring Making Big Special Effects Films’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jason Isaacs is currently earning raves for his spiraling performance on HBO’s “The White Lotus” Season 3, but to many fans around the world he’s still just Lucius Malfoy.

Isaacs played the iconic “Harry Potter” villain in six movies, starting with 2002’s “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” and ending with 2011’s “Deathly Hallows – Part 2.” The actor recently appeared on BBC’s “The One Show” and looked back at his Potter tenure. “Even though I was in the films, when I’ve taken godchildren or nephews and nieces to the [studio tour] and the thing comes up and suddenly you’re in the Great Hall, every time, I burst out in tears,” Isaacs said. “It’s incredibly moving and overwhelming.

There’s some magic that happened in those stories.” But while the finished product brings tears to his eyes, Isaacs also said: “It’s a terrible confession to make: they weren’t that much fun to make.

It’s quite boring making big special effects films. However the pleasures all come afterwards. I see and meet people for whom their lives were changed by it, and still people reading it and sharing it with their children.