ジェイソン・アイザックスのインスタグラム(therealjasonisaacs) - 6月1日 23時07分
#Dragonheart was released 21 yrs ago today. Weird to think I was working at 12. And looked like this...
My very first taste of Hollywood, shot in an almost entirely vegetable-free Slovakia.
Here's how I nearly didn't take the job:
I was doing a Shakespeare workshop with Ian McKellen when I was offered the part of Lord Felton, second villain on the left, because I had exactly the same shoe, head and chest measurements of the wonderful actor Patrick Malahide, who’d already been cast and for whom all the elaborate leather costumes and hats had been made. In his wisdom he decided to take a job in Cutthroat Island, which was destined to be a gigantic smash. It became one of the biggest flops of the decade instead, burying pirate movies until Johny Depp’s bad teeth revived them.
I wasn’t sure, though, whether to accept. I’d just finished a year in Angels In America - one of the greatest plays of the 20th century - and the National Theatre had asked me to stay and play a big part in one of the Scandinavian classics (can’t remember which one - Uncle Vanya? The Cherry Orchard? Something with hessian trousers and baggy shirts). It was confusing: an opportunity to do classy theatre versus a better paid and forgettable cameo in a special effects movie. So I asked Ian what I should do. “Take the film darling.” he said emphatically. “I would. Absolutely.”
“Really? Why?”
“Listen, I’m a national fucking treasure here. I’ve played the lead in every bloody Shakespeare, Ibsen, Ayckbourn, Checkov, you name it, at the National, the RSC, in the West End, everywhere.”
“And?”
“And I can barely afford to service my bloody Mini. If I had my time again I’d take every bloody butler, monocled aristocrat and moustache-twirling bad guy I could get.”
This, of course, was just before his towering Richard III changed everything for him.
It was sage advice and I took it. I got to Slovakia and met the director, Rob Cohen, who invited me to his flat and made some pasta on the first night. I told him I’d accepted the job because Ian McKellen told me he would've taken it.
"Really?" He asked "Is he available?"
I'm still not sure if he was joking.
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