Isaacs spills details on 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'

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By Stone Martindale Jan 13, 2007, 20:57 GMT

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Jason Isaacs, who plays long haired Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film franchise, told SCI FI Wire that he'll have a lot more meat to show off in the upcoming fifth film, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," including a wand-to-wand fight with Sirius Black, played by Gary Oldman.

"I had virtually nothing to do in number four," Isaacs said in an interview at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., promoting his upcoming BBC America miniseries "The State Within."

"In fact, when there's nothing to do like that, and they say, 'Do you want to come in for a couple of weeks?' you go, 'Well, I'm busy. Oh, God. All right.' Because the thought that somebody else might wear my wig is just too painful. But I have a little bit more to do in this."

Isaacs' character is the elitist father of Harry Potter's nemesis Draco Malfoy. In the fifth book, the Lucius Malfoy is revealed as a Death Eater, one of Lord Voldemort's followers.

Isaacs revealed details of the upcoming film: "I get to have a wand battle with Gary Oldman, possibly my favorite actor in the universe," Isaacs said. "We get to play around like two 10-year-olds. And with kind of unlimited sci-fi imagination. It's fun. We just go, 'Well, how about if I ... .' And anything you finish that sentence with, they go, 'Yeah, OK. You can do that.' So it was magnificent."

Isaacs also said he had an opportunity to meet author J.K. Rowling and begged her to include him in the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, due possibly by the summer.

"I fell to my knees and begged," he joked. "It didn't do any good. I'm sure she doesn't need plot ideas from me. But I made my point. We'll see. Like everybody else, I'm holding my breath to July to see what's in there. I just want to bust out of prison, that's all. I don't want to stay in Azkaban most of my life," reported SCI FI Wire. sexy Jason Isaacs
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