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Jason Isaacs, who’s so delightfully menacing as Capt. Hook in the new “Peter Pan,” used to sneak out with his 14-year-old co-star – in full costume – and ride the roller coaster next to the set.
“We’d climb over the fence, go on the roller coaster with our hands in the air and our eyes closed,” says Isaacs, who implanted himself in memory when he played the evil Col. Tavington in “The Patriot” and Lucius Malfoy in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”

Isaacs admits he hates growing up, the perfect choice to harass “Peter Pan.”

“I’m one of these people who’s always been drawn to extremes – extremes of everything. It’s one of the reasons I like acting: extremes of emotions, extremes of human behavior and extreme physical sensations – driving incredibly fast. I used to drive very stupidly when I was a young actor,” he says.

He’s always been drawn to adventure, confesses Isaacs, 40. “You only get one go. My life is very safe and normal and suburban, so without risking it as much as possible, I want to experience everything that’s out there.”

The third of four kids, this Liverpudlian says he never intended to become an actor. “I was studying law. I thought I’d try everything once, literally, just about everything I could lay my hands on. One of the things I thought I’d do was play because that’s what I understood students to do: they’re meant to stay up late at night, read French philosophers, get drunk, sleep with people, do plays and all these things. So I tried them all. I just loved doing plays. I adored that sense of community.”

A visit to a drama school (sans audition) earned him a coveted place there, much to his surprise. “I’ve always hated making decisions, always like letting them be made for me, so in a way, I just let it happen by default. But that’s what I did and three years of drama school I never thought that’s what I’d end up doing. I thought it would be another useful indulgence, another three years during which I didn’t really have to grow up. I could hang around and behave badly.”

Somewhere along the line, Isaacs saw the light. “(It meant) stopping taking drugs,” he says. “I did that a while back. Committing to a relationship and finally stopping thinking there might be something better or different or this is temporary until … when my life is this NEW life.”

He credits his partner, documentarian Emma Hewitt, and his 20-month-old daughter with leveling him, though he’s still no Ward Cleaver.

“Growing up is a very piecemeal process and I’ve been dragged kicking and screaming mostly by Emma. I’m suddenly left on my own, and realize I have to grow up by myself now. She’s not going to do it for me. This creeping process of thinking time is running out,” he levels his blue eyes, “friends die, friends’ parents die and the conveyor belt moves a little bit forward, and all I get is this. I don’t particularly believe in an afterlife. I’ve got to savor every second of it.”

“Peter Pan” opens Christmas Day.

Although Jason Isaacs had a memorable time shooting his new TV series “Brotherhood,” which premieres July 9 on Showtime, he says the best thing he walked away with from the experience was a brand new baby girl, Ruby. However, being in Rhode Island for filming while his wife was going into labor proved to be a lot more hectic for the British actor than he thought.

“On the day it actually happened, it was in the wee hours of the morning. I phoned home to see how my wife was, and she said her contractions were way apart. We thought all was fine, but the female director said for me to go home.

“I raced home, and by the time I got there, her contractions were closer, so we raced to the hospital, but we got horribly lost,” explains Isaacs. “She was in the back seat in full labor, screaming the windows out. I pulled over to look at a map and she asked if we were lost. I said, ‘No, no, darling.’ She said, ‘I f—ing hope not, because my water just broke!’

“I drove like a lunatic praying to God for any sign of life. In the end, we found the hospital and we arrived 17 minutes before Ruby was born, so that was quite exciting.”

Having just injured himself during filming, Isaacs admits that he wasn’t very much use to his wife in the hospital when it came to carrying bags or holding the baby. “I was in a sling because I did a stunt that went wrong, and I dislocated my AC joint in my shoulder. I was in quite a lot of pain, and I feel even now that I didn’t get my fair share of sympathy because, within days of that, my wife was giving birth,” he says with a laugh. “Maybe I’ll get it the second time around, next time I injure it.” And they wonder why women are so tough!

When Jason Isaacs first comes on the phone, he mentions that he is covered in blood. Sounds like an interesting — but not atypically brutal — moment is in the works for Showtime’s Brotherhood (Sundays at 10 pm/ET), where he plays prodigal hoodlum Michael Caffee, MIA for seven years and now back home in Providence, Rhode Island, to reclaim his turf, all the whole trying not to sully his legislator brother’s political profile. But it turns out that Isaacs — whom you know from such film fare as The Patriot (he popped Mel Gibson’s son) and the Harry Potter series — has his hands dirty for a different, even heroic, role.

TVGuide.com: Why are you covered in blood?
Jason Isaacs: It’s for a BBC miniseries called State Within; I play the British ambassador who’s trying to save the world from terrorists, and the leader of the rebels has been shot in my arms. Just another day at the office! [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: You had me wondering for a second what sort of fresh mess Michael Caffee was involved in.
Isaacs: Oh, no, no. I haven’t done [Brotherhood] since December. It’s strange when it comes on the telly; I watched the DVDs and thought, “God, I remember that….” Michael is so miserable and tortured all the time — a huge weight lifted off my shoulders when it was all over!

TVGuide.com: The ads have positioned the show as this “brother versus brother” thing, but that’s not all it’s about.
Isaacs: In many ways, the show is about a neighborhood and not a family. But there are things going on between these two siblings that we’ve probably all experienced. They grew up together, and from Michael’s point of view in some ways he raised Tommy. The father was gone and he kept Tommy on the straight and narrow. Then when he comes back he is no longer the head of the family; Tommy is a big local figure with a lot of status and respect, which Michael is very proud of and, on some deep level, envious of. Similarly, Tommy was the little brother, and little brothers, no matter what kind of status they achieve, always have a chip on their shoulder and feel a need to prove themselves. Michael and Tommy are both control freaks and want the best and worst for each other. They both want to be at the center of the family, to be the one who works out the problems.

TVGuide.com: Obviously you’ve been busy with theatrical work. How did you get recruited for a Showtime series?
Isaacs: I hadn’t done many pilots before, but that year I had done a couple of episodes of The West Wing because it was my favorite show and it was a complex character in an interesting, grown-up story. That made me realize that what I was doing for my own entertainment was watching television. I was making films, and I will continue to do so, but most of the time the films were not for me, they weren’t the kinds of things that I watch. The stuff I like to watch — provocative, adult and complicated stuff — I was always guaranteed to find on pay cable. When my agent came to me with this, he said, “Look, I know you don’t read pilots, but it’s being directed by [The Patriot's] Phillip Noyce.” And that was it for me. It wasn’t part of some plan; I just stumbled into it.

TVGuide.com: What did you admire most about the script?
Isaacs: One of the things that intrigued me was that Michael’s been away for seven years and when he comes back he’s obviously a different man, and he has made these mysterious statements about what his plans are, about who he [is] now. When I went to meet Phillip and [executive producer] Blake [Masters], I said, “What do you think this is all about? Where has he been? What is his agenda?” They looked at each other, and then looked at me, and Phillip said, “I don’t know. What do you think?” I thought, “Wow, this is not like the movies at all.” This is open-ended and we don’t have to answer all the questions within an hour. In the end, that conversation is what made me sign up for it.

TVGuide.com: As I cued up the pilot, I was curious if the British Jason Isaacs would be giving us an Irish accent. Not quite.
Isaacs: [Laughs] What’s amazing is that if you go to Providence, the first thing that hits you — and the American actors found this to be true as well — is, “What the hell are these people saying?” This is a very, very unusual accent. You can travel all over America and people sound pretty much the same — yes, the South sounds a bit different and we’re used to the East Coast accents from the New York movies — but this is a really weird, idiosyncratic accent. Being British, I love doing dialects and accents, so as soon as I got there I was in my element. It’s a really juicy sound to get your mouth around. Some actors, they get the clothes right; for me, I like to get a voice. Early on in the production I met a guy who I thought sounded perfect for Michael, and I walked around with [his recorded voice] on my iPod all the time. All of us did. Jason Clarke (Tommy) and I looked like the iPod twins, walking around listening to Providence people.

TVGuide.com: Speaking of you and Jason Clarke, I can’t decide if there is a “family” resemblance or not.
Isaacs: Just the eyes. We both have blue eyes. I’ll tell you —and this was rather weird — I’d pick up his iPod and we’d have exactly the same songs. Or, we’d be sitting in a restaurant and order the same drink with the same food and the same fussy little [changes] we’d have them make. There was a whole host of stuff that made us realize it was spookily good casting.

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TVGuide.com: Did you get typecast as a baddie after The Patriot?
Isaacs: It’s not so much typecasting as when you’re casting a movie you think, “Who have I seen do this before?” — whether it’s a priest or a murderer or a balloonist. Having just played a baddie, I was offered lots of baddies and I said no to them. I went straight from The Patriot to doing a drag queen in Sweet November. I didn’t do another bad guy, in fact, until Harry Potter [and the Chamber of Secrets]. That and Peter Pan came along in the same week, and I thought, “I’ve resisted doing bad guys for five years and suddenly there are these two choice parts.” I agonized about which one to do, which one not to do, and I was going to say no to Harry Potter because Captain Hook obviously was a bigger part, when all of my godchildren and my friends’ kids went ballistic and threatened me. So I ended up doing both!

TVGuide.com: Where do you stand with the next Potter film, Order of the Phoenix? [Isaacs plays Lucius Malfoy, the father of Harry's archrival, Draco.]
Isaacs: I’m shooting [State Within in Canada] all of next month, and then I go home, unpack, get the mothballs off the wig, stick it on and start waving my wand about.

TVGuide.com: A Potterphile pal of mine says fans are anxious to see how Order of the Phoenix handles the Battle of the Ministry, a “beyond huge” moment, I am told, in Potter lore.
Isaacs: I am, too. This is all as entertaining for me as it is for many of the fans. I turn up and they go, “OK, you materialize from here and you fly in over here, and then you point at this and it’s going to explode….” I stand there with my jaw dropped. When I did [Chamber of Secrets], they said, “OK, there’s going to be a little blue guy [Dobby the House Elf] walking next to you and then he’s going to jump up to here….” [Laughs] On the first day of the first one I did, the first shot I had to do was storming out of a room, leaving the lovely Richard Harris (the original Dumbledore) and Daniel [Radcliffe, Harry]. [Director] Chris Columbus shouted, “OK, and then shut the door on your way out.” I said, “Do I have to shut the door? I don’t know what the rules are, but can I just wave my hand and the door shuts by magic?” Chris paused for a second and said, “Sure. If you like.” That’s when I knew I was going to have a great ride.

TVGuide.com: Lucius must be pretty fed up with always being bested by those pesky kids.
Isaacs: Well, I know that I go to prison for No. 6 [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince], so I suspect that I have time to build up another deep well of bitterness that hopefully will burst out in No. 7.

TVGuide.com: Before we go, back to Brotherhood for a second. What’s going on with Michael and Single-Earlobe Girl? Have we seen the last of her after he stormed out of their first date?
Isaacs: Um, he’s gone into very deep water. This is a guy who’s absolutely all about control, and he’s hooked up accidentally with this young girl who might find it kind of sexy that he’s a criminal, but is probably more unstable than he is. I think he’s bitten off more than he can chew. He ought to know better.

TVGuide.com: If Brotherhood does well, are you open to a Season 2?
Isaacs: Oh, I don’t have a choice. If the show does well they’ve got me until I’m on a walking frame. They might not want me back, who knows? Over the years I’ve been in things and your head gets turned and twisted by all the people who talk about what it’s going to do when it comes out and how many people are going to watch it, and how it’s going to change the lives of the people who are in it… crazy talk. When I was younger I listened to it, but over the last few years I’ve tried to enjoy the filming process and not really give a monkey’s [butt] whether the thing even comes out. We’ve had amazing reviews so far for Brotherhood, and the people I’ve lent [the DVDs] to like it, but my job was six months last year in Rhode Island. What happens now is out of our hands. If I go back and do it, I hope that Michael continues to be surprising and interesting because the last thing the audience wants, and the last thing I want, is to have him be predictable.

WHEN it comes to British villains in Hollywood you don’t get much badder than Jason Isaacs.

Not only has he tried to kill Peter Pan and Harry Potter, but the Liverpool born actor has also played an IRA warlord, a gay gangster and a sadistic baby-killing church-burning army officer.

But in an exclusive interview Jason told us he is such a wimp in real-life that disappointed fans won’t even ask for an autograph.

The star has also experienced the darker side of fame, telling us about the stalker who has made his life hell for the last eight years.

And he revealed why he’s still not married to his partner of 17 years Emma Hewitt`, who he calls his wife, and how their two-year-old daughter Lily has ruined his celebrity lifestyle.

So read on to find out all about the man inside Captain Hook and Lucius Malfoy’s costumes, including why he can’t get enough of on-screen kisses.

What makes villainous roles so appealing for you?

The best roles in Hollywood movies are always the bad guy, as heroes are pretty bland characters.

When you read a script the hero doesn’t have anything about him other than the fact that all the women watching the film should want to sleep with him.

They don’t normally get to do much acting. They’re just the rock steady sex-bomb at the heart of the story, whereas the bad guys usually have extreme characters and situations.

I don’t take acting very seriously, and you can take it even less seriously when you’re licking your genocidal lips.

Also I don’t have a choice about the roles I play, as I don’t think women watch my films desperate to rip my clothes off! People would rather see me thrown into a pit full of snakes.

I have played a few roles at the very opposite end of the spectrum though – usually priests or very moral soldiers.

We all know how evil you are on screen, but what are you like in real life?

I’m a real pushover and a wimp. I think the tough stuff on screen is just wishful thinking.

I had a guy doing building work at my house once and I phoned his wife to settle the bill and she said: “Did he ask you for an autograph?”

I was rather shocked as I didn’t realise he even knew I was an actor, but she said: “He’s a big fan of yours. He’s got all your stuff on video and pictures of you on the wall.”

I said: “That’s weird, why wouldn’t he mention it?” And she replied: “Oh well, it’s probably because… I better not say.”

After I said it wouldn’t hurt my feelings she told me: “Well it’s because he was disappointed meeting you, as you were a bit of a wimp.”

Have you found it’s true that every girl loves the bad boy – especially those with British accents?

I do get some strange responses, I’ve been sent lots of bizarre obscene photographs. People fantasise about bad characters to an amazing degree.

I remember doing an episode of the TV show Civvies where I beat my wife, and I got letters from women saying, “she should never have spoken to you like that. I love a man who is firm”. I wrote back with the phone numbers of battered women’s charities.

But the women that love bad boys are very disappointed when I turn out to be caring and considerate in the flesh – they hope that I’m going to drag them by their hair into a cave.

How did you meet Emma, how long have you been together and what does she do?

Emma was a documentary maker, but she’s now proudly announced that she’s never going to work again as long as she lives so I better make a decent living.

We met at drama school, and have been together for 17 years. We’re not actually married, although we call each other husband and wife otherwise people get rather peculiar. It seems a bit weird to call someone your girlfriend when you have a child.

I have proposed and, bizarrely, Emma accepted, but every time we think about arranging a wedding I get a job.

So we will get married one day, probably when Lily comes back from school and says: “You two have to get married, you’re really embarrassing me.”

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How has fatherhood changed you?

I wish I’d started a family earlier, it’s the best thing I’ve ever done by far.

I don’t know what the f*** I was doing in my 30s – I was always chasing a better party, a more extravagant restaurant or a longer drive on the golf course.

But now I’ve got Lily I don’t go out, I’m the opposite of a vampire because I’m only seen during the day.

You’ve had a very difficult time with an obsessive female fan? Can you tell us what happened?

I’ve had a stalker for the last eight years, and I’ve had her taken to court a number of times to enforce restraining orders. When they wear off, she starts getting in contact again immediately, threateningly, obsessively and constantly.

Friends make jokes about it, but then I explain what it is like having someone standing outside your door banging in the early hours of the morning and suddenly a chill goes over the room.

It’s not that much fun having a stalker. It’s very disturbing for us and I hope she gets some psychiatric help, but she was meant to have that last time.

The best advice the police can give is “move houses, change all your phone numbers and switch jobs”. But none of that applies to an actor. I toyed with the idea of doing theatre, but then she’d just come to the theatre.

I’ve been in America and Australia for a year and a half and when I left England she had another restraining order put on her. But quite what will happen in the long run I don’t know.

It’s a long way for her to come, but then we were a two-hour train ride from where she lived in England before.

What was really strange was I’d be away from home for six months or a year filming and then it would start again the day I got back. So I thought: “Wow, is she just standing in my street every day watching?”

We didn’t know who she was for the first few years, until the police caught her. Now it’s weird knowing her name, address and life story. You begin to think, “maybe I should start stalking you”. But then you start becoming as mad as they are.

Is it strange going on the Internet and seeing hundreds of fan sites dedicated to you?

Definitely. If I was as successful as my presence on the Internet suggests then I’d be a cross between Tom Cruise and Marilyn Monroe. There is even a doll available of me in drag in the film Sweet November.

I get some of the nicest fan mail you could imagine. Also when I’m up for an award, my fans all vote online and then they’ll boast to each other about how many thousands of times they’ve clicked my name. Their thumbs must be bleeding!

My fans really are fantastic. They knit things for me and send presents to Emma and Lily.

I feel guilty because I don’t get around to answering fan mail or do more than just send photographs, especially since the stalking thing happened.

I’m loath to send personalised replies because if one in 10,000 turns into a loony then you’re better off not answering at all. It’s such a shame because the other 9,999 are really lovely people.

In America a lot of stars don’t answer any fan mail ever as a matter of policy for that reason.

But once every few years I get somebody in to help me clear the backlog, so most of the people who get a reply have either completely forgotten who I am or are in geriatric homes.

Peter Pan was a huge box office hit and looks set to be a smash on DVD too. Why do you think it is such an enduring story?

Because everybody is scared of getting old. When you’re a kid, on the one hand you’re desperate to be older, but on the other you’re terrified of it.

Then when you do get older you aren’t really sure how to behave, because you don’t actually feel old.

I think the story works because it doesn’t patronise kids, it was written in an era when they didn’t think that you should be gentle with them. So it’s really quite vicious and dark and the children in it are selfish and villainous.

Peter Pan himself is quite a mischievous character, in fact when the book was first written there was no Captain Hook – Peter Pan was the bad guy and the good guy.

Also the story has always worked for every age group.

When I saw the movie with a group of people, the three and four-year-olds loved the pretty pictures and the fairies, the seven-year-olds really liked the sword-fighting and the flying and the 12-year-olds were completely into the romance between Peter and Wendy.

Then there were the grown-ups who were crying with nostalgia and loss of youth – and the kids didn’t know what the hell was going on with their parents!

Did you enjoy working with Jeremy Sumpter – the young actor who played Peter Pan?

Yes, he’s great although he did nearly kill me. He would always ask to use metal swords, as they were much lighter than the ‘safe’ swords wrapped in rubber I insisted on using.

I would win the day, then instantly afterwards there would be some terrible accident where if we’d used metal swords one of us would have ended up decapitated or blinded.

Jeremy is a very sweet boy and he’d be really distraught and apologetic… until the next morning. Then it would be as if it never happened and he’d want to use metal swords again.

One time he knocked me out cold! He did a double-pirouette and a double-backhand with the sword and hit me right in the face. My feet left the ground, I flew backwards towards the other side of the ship and my face immediately blew up like a pumpkin.

We couldn’t film for the rest of the day, and the poor kid was in worse emotional pain than I was physical pain. It wasn’t his fault – things go wrong in fights all the time – but he felt so incredibly guilty.

Then the next morning we had to continue where we left off and he immediately went into his “come-on, let’s use metal swords” routine.

Was it difficult working with a cast of children? Was it down to you to keep them entertained?

Things take a lot longer with children as they don’t have the same skills at faking it, but it means when they get it right they’re absolutely fantastic.

One of the tricky things on Peter Pan was that labour laws meant the children could only work for limited hours.

When it came to flying – which is really painful – I was up in the air hanging around while Jeremy would take a break and be replaced by his double. So I’d be up there all day suspended by my undies with a giant wedgie, while Jeremy was off playing basketball.

When I was at drama school I used to be an entertainer at children’s parties, and I put that to good use on set. It’s a pretty serious endeavour making a giant movie like this and things can get tense, so I felt it was my responsibility to make sure the kids had a really good time.

I became the set clown. Anything I could fall over, I fell over and anybody that could be made fun of I made fun of. Especially the more serious people, who I made up obscene nicknames for.

There was a huge very scary pirate, built like Arnold Schwarzenegger, who I called “man breasts”.

I’d try and find a way to fit a different word for breasts into every single sentence I said out loud hoping he wouldn’t notice, while the kids cried with laughter.

He never found out, I wouldn’t be talking to you if he had!

Do you worry young kids hate you now you’ve tried to kill Peter Pan and Harry Potter? And if you could take one of them out who would it be?

No, kids love the bad guy, that’s who they want to be. They want the Captain Hook costume and to dress up as pirates. Also I played Wendy’s sweet dad Mr Darling – and I look more like him than Hook.

If I had the choice I think I’d kill Harry Potter, because Lucius Malfoy is desperate to see the end of him.

Captain Hook doesn’t really want to kill Peter Pan, because he doesn’t have a clue what would happen to him. They live and feed off each other. You have to ask yourself this question – what was his name before he lost his hand? Answers on a postcard please.

How does Captain Hook compare to film’s other famous baddies? Who are your all-time favourite villains?

Captain Hook really isn’t that evil, I feel sorry for him – he’s such a loser! Before the story even begins he’s already lost his hand, so he’s clearly not that much cop in the sword-fighting stakes. And the only people he manages to kill are his own pirates.

I’ve been really lucky to play some great bad guys. The one that scared me most when I was a kid was the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. That’s why I tried to give Lucius Malfoy a whining tone, because that voice resonated throughout my childhood.

I was also scared of The Wicked Witch Of The West, but now my two-year-old daughter watches The Wizard Of Oz and is completely unperturbed by her, she thinks she’s funny. So now my daughter knows how much of a wimp I am.

Has Lily seen any of your films yet? Is she scared of you?

We were in a shopping centre when she was about 19 months and Peter Pan was playing. We saw the scene where the kids were flying and she loved it and started shouting, “look – boys and girls flying in the air!”

Then Captain Hook came on, and I thought “I better get out as this will be scary for her”. But it came on for a second and she shouted, “look – daddy dressed up!”

I’m not worried that Lily will be scared of me, but that her and Emma will think I’m pathetic and be embarrassed of my rather stupid job.

Your breakthrough role in America was as a British officer in Mel Gibson’s The Patriot where you killed babies and burned down churches. Did you ever worry about giving us Brits a bad name?

Oh hell no. It was rather weird for me as when I started doing interviews for the film in America people asked me the same question, “do you think this is going to make you unpopular in Britain?”

At the time I thought “don’t be silly”, as it’s never been an offence to burn the flag in England and we know full well some of the things our Empire did and I think a lot of people are rather ashamed of it.

And in a film about the American War Of Independence who are going to be the bad guys, if it’s not the Brits? It’s not a story about Columbian drug lords!

But I was wrong and I hit a complete sh**-storm when I came back.

It was more bizarre as the character I was playing was loosely based on a real-life English soldier whose nickname was The Butcher and became famous for slaughtering all of his prisoners. So it’s not like I was playing Ghandi and doing all those things.

Were you a fan of the Harry Potter books before you took on the role of Malfoy?

No, in fact I thought it was rather weird. I couldn’t really understand why so many adults seemed to be reading children’s books.

I actually did the role for Lily and my godchildren. Lily wasn’t quite speaking at that time, she was still in Emma’s tummy, but my seven godchildren pushed me into it.

I was thinking of not doing the role, but when word got out they all phoned me up absolutely furious and spitting blood.

The threat they used against me was, “Lily will never forgive you when she grows up”.

So I read the first four books and they are phenomenal. I stayed up for two nights running and read them all from cover to cover. It was like eating four enormous bars of chocolate and then looking down at the wrappers and thinking, “how the hell did that happen?”

Now each time a new book comes out we all can’t wait to get our hands on it. We pretend it’s because we want to see where the story is going but what we’re really thinking is “am I in it?”

Your character isn’t in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, but are you coming back for the fourth or fifth films?

I make a tiny cameo appearance in the fourth film, to remind people that I still exist as I have a bit more to do in the fifth one.

To be honest I thought I wouldn’t get to be in the fourth film at all, but it will be nice to get the wig out of mothballs and start the slow warm-up for number five where I have some rather juicy and lovely stuff.

I’m looking forward to it, as long as everyone else agrees to do it. For all I know the kids could be married with children by then.

Was there any competition between you and Alan Rickman on the set of Harry Potter over who is the most evil?

Oh no, I would always lie down and lick the bottom of his boots. I think he’s absolutely sensational. But Professor Snape is not as evil as Malfoy is.

Do you, Alan and all the other British actors stick together in Hollywood?

No, not really. The last thing you want to do when you arrive in Hollywood is hook up with someone who takes you for a warm beer and to watch Premiership football at four in the morning.

I never get to see my best friends anymore – we’re spread all over the world doing different things – so thank god for the Internet and instant messaging.

According to one of your fan sites you’ve died on-screen 14 times including twice in the TV show Taggart. Do you have a favourite death?

I liked Event Horizon, every time I worked with the director Paul Anderson he’d always try and find a great way to kill me. To be completely gutted and have your organs pulled out – as happened to me in Event Horizon – is rather marvellous.

They did much more gruesome close-up shots of it that weren’t included in the film, because people gagged watching them at the test screening and were so revolted by it they were distracted for the rest of the movie.

I also had a great death in a British TV series called Dangerous Lady. It was a gangster show where I played a gay crime lord and Susan Lynch played my sister.

I died with her crying over me and her tears splashing down on my face as I exhaled my last breath. Her performance was so fantastic it made dying almost beautiful.

That Taggart episode was a big turning point in my career as I got to play identical twins, one good and one bad, and before then I’d only played good guys.

You’ve had plenty of on-screen kisses too, what’s your favourite?

Oh blimey! They’re all free kisses and for a man who has been in a relationship for 17 years they’re marvellous! I love them all, even snogging Daniel Craig in the play Angels In America was a free kiss

I’ve just filmed some episodes of The West Wing, where I’m a little bit of totty for Donna – so I’ve been snogging Janel Moloney.

The show is sensational, it’s the best programme on American telly. In the show Donna and Josh are the great unconsummated love story, but I suddenly stick my oar in.

It could be my most unpopular role yet! Even when I was kissing her I could imagine myself watching it screaming “noooo!”

Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs has a very different role in a terrific new BBC1 drama series set in America.

Known to millions as evil wizard Lucius Malfoy, he plays the maverick British Ambassador to Washington in The State Within.

“The BBC archives were fantastic,” recalls Jason. “I said, ‘Do you have any material about embassies or diplomats?’ A truck pulled up.”

The first episode of the six-part conspiracy thriller, which also features Cagney and Lacey’s Sharon Gless, is on screen in Britain on Thursday November 2 and begins on BBC America next February.

Filmed in Canada – with Toronto doubling for Washington – the opening episode includes stunning scenes of a terrorist bomb attack on a passenger plane which has just taken off from the US capital, bound for London.The spectacular set caused quite a stir among drivers heading for Toronto Airport.

Jason, 43, was in good form when we spoke at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in London’s Piccadilly one night earlier this week. He’s as impressive off screen as on and talks with intelligence and enthusiasm.

Older readers may remember him as City dealer Chas Ewell in ITV’s classic 1989 series Capital City. He’s gone on to a variety of roles, including Captain Hook in the 2003 movie version of Peter Pan.

A father of two young girls, Jason has just appeared as Michael Caffee in the first series of US TV drama Brotherhood – about two brothers on different sides of the law. Made on location in Rhode Island, Brotherhood has been commissioned for a second series, which means yet more time away for Jason. So another big job in Canada was simply not on his agenda. “It was not my plan to come home, unpack, re-pack and go to Toronto for six months,” he explains.

Watch The State Within and you’ll understand why he changed his mind.

He’s also refreshingly honest about the film-making process, which involved a separate crew shooting exterior scenes of Washington landmarks – even though the cast were in Canada.

“It was odd because, obviously, we didn’t shoot in the States. So when you see the characters crossing the road in Washington on the way to the Pentagon, it’s a lookie-likie Stars In Their Eyes.”
Even though Jason misses his wife and kids, there’s no self-pity about his work schedule.

“I know one thing. It’s much better to be working than it is sitting at home making buying your light bulb into an entire afternoon’s activity. I try and look at the glass being half full.

“In life, the quest is to try and be happy with what you’ve got when you’ve got it. I do some work for Great Ormond Street Hospital and you meet these unbelievably inspirational kids who spend their whole life raising money for the hospital when they’re very sick themselves.

“We should all count ourselves lucky.”

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British-born Jason Isaacs has quickly become one of the world’s most well respected actors with such memorable parts as Col. William Tavington in “The Patriot” and Lucius Malfoy in “Harry Potter,” but making it this far in his acting career was never anything the former academic could have anticipated.

“I never dreamt for a second that I could be a professional actor. It was something I enjoyed doing as a hobby. Having indulged myself by going off and studying in drama school, I thought, ‘Well, if I get one job then I’ll at least have that to tell my children about,’” says Isaacs, who studied law at Bristol University before moving on to London’s Central School of Speech and Drama.

Luckily for Isaacs, this would also be the place where he would meet his wife Emma Hewitt with whom he now has two daughters.

Once in London, Isaacs began landing professional work almost immediately, appearing on the stage and television. A few years later, he began to find more work onscreen, receiving his first nod of Hollywood recognition with a small role in the blockbuster “Armageddon.” It wasn’t until he played the convincingly ruthless villain in Mel Gibson’s “The Patriot,” though, that Isaacs became an international superstar. Not to mention, the most feared.

“Basically since ‘The Patriot,’ I’ve been offered lots of bad guys in movies and I’ve not done any of them. Most of the time they’re written to do things that nobody would ever do and they just make the audience annoyed,” explains Isaacs, who couldn’t be nicer in real life.

In fact, he even went on to show his comedic abilities as a drag queen in “Sweet November.” “I like to keep people guessing,” he quips.

However, more dark days were ahead for him on screen. Thanks to “Harry Potter,” he’s now one of the most beloved bad guys in biz. “Lucius Malfoy came along at the same time as Captain Hook in ‘Peter Pan’ so I thought I’d try it. It’s such an iconic part and all the films are so huge and Lucius Malfoy and Voldemort are so well known, that now career wise, I’ve moved out of the bad guy category and can be entertained for more interesting, complex work. It’s given me the license to do a lot of indies.”

One of his latest projects has brought him back to television as a gangster on Showtime’s “Brotherhood.” “It’s a great joy for me, having done so many movies over the years, being able to tell a complex story over the course of many hours and not needing to use such broad strokes that all questions are answered within an hour and a half,” says Isaacs. “In movies, the characters need to only play one note and be consistent. I’m not consistent in my own life. Nobody I know can be summed up in a sentence. People change their behavior constantly because they evolve. Not only can you do that over a long period of time with TV, but because it’s premium cable, there’s no censorship so you can talk like real people talk and deal with real issues.”

Isaacs is also getting back to his British roots with the BBC drama “The State Within.” “I play the British ambassador to Washington, who’s trying to avert an invasion. It’s a big change from ‘Brotherhood’ in that I’m trying to come up with all of these solutions diplomatically and not with a chainsaw,” he says with a laugh.

Although his career is shooting through the roof with five movies on the horizon, Isaacs claims that his life and family will continue to take priority. “I want to try and embody what I witnessed in Australia for a year — where life is more important than work. Work is something you can do so you can enjoy your life. I try and have a laugh when I’m filming because you never know if anybody’s going to watch it. I had friends who put their life and soul into a film that came out September 10, 2001. Nobody went to see it,” he notes.

“I make a living doing this, which puts me in a very privileged brand of actors, and it’s absolutely not because I deserve it or am more talented than my friends who don’t work. I just try and enjoy what’s happening to me while it’s happening. Who knows how long it will continue? I can’t believe I’ve had this long a run so far.” Well, we certainly can.

As for what he hopes to accomplish next? “The only professional ambitions I have left are to get more charity golf and tennis events in because it’s the only time I can justify abandoning my family,” he says, smiling. “As long as I’m doing something good for somebody then I can justify it in my mind.”

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WITH his flashing sapphire blue eyes and razor sharp cheekbones, Jason Isaacs is particularly good at being bad.

And in his latest film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the Liverpool-born actor exceeds himself as the wicked wizard Lucius Malfoy.

Despite being an immensely amiable character in real life, Jason admits that he enjoys tapping into the dark side for many of his finest screen moments. After all, who could forget the sadistic Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot?

“They’re like bad meat,” he says of playing people we love to hate. “They stick in your teeth for a long time.

“Besides, the public rarely forget the villains because they make you angry, which is what I’m hoping to do with Lucius.

“I think baddies, if you get them right, stay with you and make your flesh creep. But more importantly, you want to stay with them because you want them to be toppled.”

According to Jason, the secret of getting people to loathe a screen character is to make them believable. That’s why he looks for inspiration in some of today’s dictators.

“I normally look for redeeming features in a bad guy,” he explains. “A micro scan found nothing, but I did find things I could believe in.

“You don’t need to look very far in the newspapers to find similar characters. If you swap the word muggle (non wizards) for any other ethnicity in the world you find similar figures throughout Europe.”

Lucius believes very strongly in the purity of wizard blood and that’s quite chilling on screen.

“It has a resonance and then I had something to hang on to,” he says.

“So, I clung to the idea of a man not liking the way his world was being swamped by the newcomers. And I thought I’d found a way into making him real and repulsive at the same time.

“The thing about great children’s literature is that it doesn’t pull any punches.”

Sitting in a press conference, surrounded by wide eyed journalists, Jason admits that he was desperate to be in the latest Harry Potter film. He had auditioned for the part of Snape in the original movie but got pipped to the post by Alan Rickman.

“Everybody I knew was either in Harry Potter, or auditioning for it,” he laughs.

“Certainly everybody has read at least one of the books to their children and if you’re a British actor you couldn’t have missed being around when they were casting for the screen version.

“So I finally got the call and it was like ‘Thank God.’ There was something on the net the first time it came around and somebody sent it to me. I wasn’t quite sad enough to look for it myself.

“They sent me a page saying I was going to be playing Snape and so I phoned up my friends and said: ‘What’s this character Snape?’ They just replied, ‘We think it’s Alan Rick-man.’

“It was a bit upsetting and sure enough, it’s because he’s sensational in it. So the first film went by and then I got the call for the second one. I went in and they said would you read Lucius Malfoy and I said ‘What’s he like?’ They said, ‘He’s really evil.’”

And sure enough Lucius, if you believe all the marketing hype around, is completely hideous. His only redeeming quality is his luscious long blonde hair.

“People keep saying to me it will be great for our daughter when she grows up,” he says of his much coveted role.

“But I’m not sure that it’s that cool to go to school and say, “My dad’s the one you all had nightmare’s about!” Like most individuals, Jason has caught the Harry Potter bug and has read all JK Rowlings’ books with relish.

“I went away and read all four of them in about an afternoon,” he says. “They’re just fantastically readable and I understood why they’d been such a sensation.

“It took me back to when I was young. I had a terrible obsession with reading. If I started a book I wanted to finish it that night. Enid Blyton, C.S.Lewis, I’d read them under the covers in bed with a torch and I felt exactly the same with these books.

“Rowling is a fantastic storyteller and I got really excited and annoyed that she hadn’t written the fifth book. I thought once I was on the film maybe people would sneak me a copy of number five. Tragically it’s not happened yet.”

Jason’s excitement about the whole project is infectuous. But I suspect its more to do with starring alongside some of the industry’s greatest actors than the fictional adventures of Harry.

“To walk on set to do scenes with Richard Harris and Robert Hardy was wonderful,” he gushes.

“I went to school with both their children – I went to drama school with Richard Harris’ son and to university with Robert Hardy’s daughter. They are these iconic figures who would occasionally waft in and see you in a play. So, doing scenes with them was fantastic.”

Unfortunately, Jason will not be starring in the third Harry Potter film, having already committed himself to play the part of Captain Hook in Paul Hogan’s Peter Hook.

But I am in the fourth one, touch broom,” he says. “And then I hope that J. K. has decided to make five, six and seven all about Lucius Malfoy. It’s her decision, but I’ve been sending her notes on the hour. But we’ll see and that’s why I can’t wait for the book. We all can’t wait to find out if we’re still alive.”

A native scouser, Jason originally studied law at Bristol University but during the course found he was spending more and more time devoting his energy to his true vocation – acting.

After graduating, he applied and won a place at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama and three years later was out in the world trying to earn a living as an actor. The legal profession would have to find somebody else to recruit.

“My own earliest and only memory of theatre when I was a child was ironically going to see Peter Pan with Anita Harris,” he says.

“I thought when I went to drama school that it was insane to do it, but one of those indulgences of youth and then I’d get back on the straight and narrow and do something proper that would earn me a living. Back then my biggest aspiration was to get a job, any job. I still can’t quite believe it.”

Unlike most ambitious actors, Jason has no idea what he would like to do next. His diary is already full with forthcoming roles and to demand more luck would be tempting fate.

“I think it’s very unhealthy for an actor to have ambitions or plans because they are always thwarted,” he concludes. “I don’t ever think, ‘If only I could.’

So I just enjoy the work and take it as it comes. And if I’m honest, my main ambition is that my baby daughter stays healthy and I keep working. That’s the important thing.”

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First shown: Due for release on July 13th, 2007

Duration: not available as of yet

Rating: not available

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure

Plot outline: The fifth installment of the Harry Potter series begins bleakly for Harry. There is a grim house, an even grimmer new house elf, and the unhappy knowledge that somewhere out there Lord Voldemort has returned. But despite this gloom, Harry will discover help in his fight against Voldemort and his followers: The Order of the Phoenix, a band of wizards dedicating to thwarting Voldemort’s plans. Harry will find new friends and allies, as well as new foes, a new Defense against the Dark Arts Teacher, plus a giant surprise from an unexpected source. There will be new creatures, new establishments, new faces, and Harry’s biggest confrontation to date.

Cast: This would take up about half the website if I put the entire cast here. It’s the usual cast (all of which seem to be back, including Crazy Gary Oldman!) with a few additions including Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange), Imelda Staunton (Dolores Umbridge), Natalia Tena (Nymphadora Tonks), George Harris (Kingsley Shacklebolt), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) and Jim McManus (Aberforth Dumbledore).

Jason’s character: Not sure about this one. Is it…Dumbledore? No it’s Lucius Malfoy, silly!

Clips/trailers: None yet

Images: None yet

Official website: Not available yet

We make no secret that Jason Isaacs is one of our favourite actors, so we’re happy to hear today that the actor was treated with appropriate respect by the Costume Designer for Peter Pan. Isaacs, who in line with tradition will be playing both Mr Darling and Captain Hook in the upcoming PJ Hogan film, explains in an interview with USA Today that his costumes were to die for.

‘[Hook]‘s very cool and sexy,’ says Isaacs, who decided to give the costume department a little direction as far as his outfits were concerned. ‘I said, “Let’s have open shirts, sort of Julio Iglesias-style. Happily the designers were only too pleased to accommodate the pirate. ‘I’m pretty sure that any one of my jackets cost more than what I got paid for this film,’ laughs Isaacs, who adds that even his footwear were, ‘were the Excaliber of pirate boots.’

As for the hook itself, Isaac’s Captain Hook has a deadly weapon indeed. ‘It was described as a claw by Barrie,’ he tells the paper, ‘But we’ve got a talon, a really nasty instrument.’

Date performed ~ 29th April, 2000

Author ~ Gary Mitchell

Theatre ~ The Royal Court Theatre

Reviews

Michael Billington THE GUARDIAN, 11 April 2000

“Gary Mitchell has done it again. Only better. Last year, in Trust, he wrote a gripping play about the destructuve impact of the Northern Irish Protestant ethic on its own children. Now in this even more nail-biting work he shows how both policing and terrorism are dominated by a boys’ club atmosphere and by a series of interlocking collusions. His setting is an RUC station and two adjacent interview rooms. In one, Caroline, a married detective sergeant on a fast track to promotion, has five hours in which to nail down a UDA hard man: she is clearly not being helped by her side-kick, a resentful old sweat with 30 years in the force. Meanwhile two of her male colleagues are trying to break down a joyriding UDA messenger in the hope that he will implicate the terrorist next door. The two interrogations are inter-dependent; but when Caroline’s partner is briefly left alone with the suspect, it looks as if the whole edifice will fall apart.

“To reveal more would be to ruin a good story. But what Mitchell does is to show how the tribal politics of Northern Ireland create both resistance to change and a network of matching relationships. Reactionary males in the RUC close ranks against high-flying women like Caroline. The dominant male ethos even leads to a curious unspoken complicity between cop and criminal. And we are reminded that loyalist extremists and IRA hardliners are mirror-images of each other. What is most striking about Mitchell’s play, however, is the way it keeps subverting our moral certainties. It is not simply about a lone woman battling against a pervasive male ethos: at times the heroine’s interrogation-technique looks suspect. And, even though the play attacks the concept of tribal codes, Mitchell shows that the RUC’s protection of its own has positive as well as negative implications.”

Benedict Nightingale THE TIMES, 12 April 2000

“Should Patten prevail and the Royal Ulster Constabulary shed its name and insignia? After seeing Gary Mitchell’s Force of Change you’re unlikely to be decisively swayed either way, but you will have a far better sense of the confusions afflicting Northern Ireland’s embattled police. After all, the author is himself a young Ulster Protestant from a working-class background, and somehow combines the authority of an insider with the energy and skill of a born thriller-writer… As he shows in his two previous forays into the Ulster murk, Trust and In A Little World of Our Own, Mitchell has a Mamet-like knack for evoking atmosphere…. It is surely to Mitchell’s credit that, while not ducking the moral issues, he makes us acknowledge their complexity – and that he himself has the acknowledge that a man can be both a sexist bigot and a genuine battler against the evils of his own tribe. The ending … is yet more proof that Mitchell’s is not a safe nor politically correct voice. He has also written some cracking dialogue for Robert Delamere’s fine cast. Altogether, an instructive, entertaining addition to the Ulster files.”

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Susannah Clapp THE OBSERVER, 16 April 2000

“Gary Mitchell is unlike any other Irish playwright. He’s a Protestant. He writes thriller plots. And his settings are always urban. He has always written with verve and edge; and now he has produced his best play to date, a high-voltage, disputatious examination of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. The Force of Change sets the Theatre Upstairs alight. Simon Higlett’s revealing design makes a traverse stage into a rat-run, with the audience banked on each side increasing the claustrophobia… Scrutinising a range of attitudes in the shape of four officers – one of them corrupt, one an embattled new recruit – he shows a force bewildered and threatened by the political changes engendered by the peace process. He lays bare both reactionary and honourable traits. Mitchell is a dramatist, not a debater: his ideas are embodied in the action of the play. And they are given brilliant embodiment under Robert Delamere’s direction. All the performances are first-rate … This is a new play which makes the new Royal Court Upstairs look explosive.”