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🎬 In this FilmSpeak interview, Jason Isaacs talks The White Lotus and working with Mike White.
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In the world of acting, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone as curious, charismatic, and versatile as Jason Isaacs. Across his 35-year-and-counting screen career, Isaacs has built a domineering presence on the big screen, from memorable supporting roles in genre hits like Event Horizon and Independence Day, to iconic villains such as Colonel Tavington in The Patriot, Captain Hook in the definitive 2003 adaptation of Peter Pan, and the endlessly fashionable Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films. The pinnacle of Isaacs’ film work to date, however, came in the form of 2021’s Mass, an intimate drama, where his work as the grieving and furious father of a school shooting victim was rightfully met with uproarious approval and calls for an Oscar nomination that sadly never arrived.

It’s on the small screen, however, that Isaacs has consistently delivered some of his most fascinating and layered work. Showtime’s Brotherhood, which paired Isaacs with the Australian phenom Jason Clarke as two Boston brothers on opposite sides of the law, provided Isaacs with a platform as a leading man, able to flex his charisma, while also allowing him to create a richly layered portrait of a violent criminal whose simultaneous ironclad loyalty to his family made for a show ahead of its time. And that’s not the first time Isaacs has been on he cutting edge of television, just look at the prematurely canceled Awake and Netflix’s The OA. Now, Isaacs is back in the world of prestige TV for the third season of Mike White’s hot social satire The White Lotus, portraying Timothy Ratliff, a financier whose career mistakes send him into suicidal despair while vacationing with his wife (Parker Posey) and children (Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, and Patrick Schwarzenegger).

The latest season of The White Lotus has - arguably moreso than in previous years - been met with an explosion of internet buzz, from Walton Goggins’ performance as a vengeful son, to Sam Rockwell’s now-notorious four-minute monologue in a bar, to Isaacs himself, who found himself taken aback by the deluge of internet discussions that this season has sparked as he sat down for what is now our third conversation together.

In this White Lotus Season Three interview, Jason Isaacs also dives into which pieces of the actor’s characters stay with him after production wraps, the dichotomy of experiencing all the lows of Timothy’s arc on set vs. seeing an audience delight in his antics, a thorough examination of Timothy’s pivotal scene with a Buddhist monk late in the season, and more!

Enjoy this Jason Isaacs interview on behalf of The White Lotus Season 3!

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Created, written, and directed by Mike White, season three stars an ensemble cast of Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Lek Patravadi, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong, Aimee Lou Wood, Sam Rockwell and Scott Glenn, with Natasha Rothwell and Jon Gries reprising their roles from prior seasons. The series follows the lives of the staff and wealthy guests at a wellness resort in Thailand.
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