Jason Isaacs calls his Harry Potter character a ‘racist’ ‘trying to make Hogwarts great again’

Jason Isaacs calls his Harry Potter character a ‘racist’ ‘trying to make Hogwarts great again’

Isaacs starred as the arrogant pure-blood wizard Lucius in six of the eight wizarding films

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