Jason Isaacs fears HBO adaptation will lead to erasure

As we all know, the HBO series adaptation of Harry Potter is drawing a lot of attention and people are paying a lot of mind to the actors chose for various roles in particular. Every time a casting rumor emerges, HBO acknowledges that there is a lot of excitement about who will fill out the cast. One actor worries that the old guard of the Harry Potter films will be "erased from history" and it might surprise you to learn that it's Jason Isaacs.

What has Isaacs said about the adaptation?

In a recent interview with Collider, Isaacs discussed how he feels about the future actor who will take over the role he originated. It's unthinkable to many of us that someone else would dare, since Jason not only helped design his character's aesthetic, but played him through the last of the films. He improvised a bit and found Daniel Radcliffe up to the challenge. He was inside the character's mind and you could tell as much.

Nevertheless, "the fact that there's another Harry Potter will supplant us, and we will - possibly - be erased from history. It's just what it is." And that's true. As fans, we will be watching as someone else disciplines Draco Malfoy and intimidates Mr. Borgin in Knockturn Alley. And Isaacs knows that, as he "came up with the whole look for him, which isn't in the book, I'm imagining they won't use the long blond wig or the capes and the cane and all that stuff." But while he anticipates this erasure or supplantation, he does have confidence in the series.

"The series will be phenomenal because it's David Heyman and it's Mark Mylod."

Jason Isaacs

He also is personally invested in the writers' success, as his goddaughter Ripley Parker, "who's a brilliant writer and has loved Harry Potter from the very first time she could touch the book," is helping to pen the series and "the fact that she's in the writers' room makes [him] love it and wish it well."

This personal connection to the creative team and humble approach to the upcoming project is one of the reasons Jason Isaacs is such a wonderful guy. It's hard to imagine him outside of one of his more acerbic roles, but he enjoys "meeting people who loike different things for different reasons and llistening to their stories."

We can hope the next Mr. Malfoy is just as lovely as the Pureblood supremacist who enjoyed torturing children.