{"id":47880,"date":"2018-02-28T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=47880"},"modified":"2018-02-28T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:03:22","slug":"isaacs-on-portraying-a-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/02\/isaacs-on-portraying-a-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaacs On Portraying A Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Isaacs<\/strong> doesn’t mind portraying villains as long as those villains can “justify their own actions.”<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s my job when I’m offered parts that seem to be there to drive the peril in the plot,” he said; “the criteria I set myself is that I will take the part if this person can justify what they’re doing and rationalize it.”<\/p>\n

“If they’re only doing thing in order for the audience to go ‘boo, hiss’ then I’ll walk away from it because I won’t be able to flesh it out and make it seem real. Can I access the conversation inside the character’s head by which they are the hero of their own life story.”<\/p>\n

This explains why he took on the role of Captain Lorca, in spite of initial reservations about doing Star Trek<\/em>. “I really wasn’t up for doing Star Trek<\/em>,” he said. “I didn’t want to do it; it wasn’t the kind of thing I was looking for and then I read the script and thought it was great.”<\/p>\n

These days, though, Isaacs is eager to get back on the stage. “I’m desperate to do a play because I’ve not been on stage for years,” he said. “I’ve put the word out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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