Lucius is rather delicious.
So I just found these hilariously amusing quotes by Jason Isaacs about playing Lucius (and a little about Hook) and I just had to share. I think they are kinda old but whatever. So enjoy! I know I did....
"I get there and I say 'Can I have a cane with a wand inside it? Can I have a cape? Do you think I could have a belt with a snake's head on it? Do you think I can blast that wall and it blows open and I walk through it?' It's absurd a man of my age doing that stuff." -Jason Isaacs
SF CHRONICLE: ...were you surprised by how much your Harry Potter character took off? People love Lucius Malfoy.
ISAAACS: 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.
SF CHRONICLE: Plus he's pretty.
ISAAACS: 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.
SF CHRONICLE: Oh, no, no, no. Just no. The campy villains you play -- the Captain Hooks and the Lucius Malfoys ...
ISAAACS: They're half a step away from drag queens, let's face it.
SF CHRONICLE: Not even a half-step. That's the beauty of it. They are drag queens.
ISAAACS: 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."
SF CHRONICLE: Please don't sing them, because there's a little game I want to play with you. It's a prison game.
ISAAACS: Oh, God.
SF CHRONICLE: 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?
ISAAACS: 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.
Oh to see Lucius sing "I'm So Pretty"!! ROFLMAO. *gigglesnort*
"I get there and I say 'Can I have a cane with a wand inside it? Can I have a cape? Do you think I could have a belt with a snake's head on it? Do you think I can blast that wall and it blows open and I walk through it?' It's absurd a man of my age doing that stuff." -Jason Isaacs
SF CHRONICLE: ...were you surprised by how much your Harry Potter character took off? People love Lucius Malfoy.
ISAAACS: 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.
SF CHRONICLE: Plus he's pretty.
ISAAACS: 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.
SF CHRONICLE: Oh, no, no, no. Just no. The campy villains you play -- the Captain Hooks and the Lucius Malfoys ...
ISAAACS: They're half a step away from drag queens, let's face it.
SF CHRONICLE: Not even a half-step. That's the beauty of it. They are drag queens.
ISAAACS: 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."
SF CHRONICLE: Please don't sing them, because there's a little game I want to play with you. It's a prison game.
ISAAACS: Oh, God.
SF CHRONICLE: 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?
ISAAACS: 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.
Oh to see Lucius sing "I'm So Pretty"!! ROFLMAO. *gigglesnort*