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Having set out his stall as one of the most outspoken character actors in the business, Jason Isaacs<\/a> had no problem confessing that a scene shot right next to where he was working may have been illegal.<\/p>\n Since he wasn\u2019t there, he can\u2019t be 100% sure whether or not any laws were broken, but he was in close enough proximity to get a better handle on the illicit goings-on than almost everyone else. It wasn\u2019t drugs, and it wasn\u2019t murder, at least, but there was still something mighty suspicious unfolding.<\/p>\n He might have been working solidly across film, television, and the stage for almost 40 years, but thanks largely to Hollywood, Isaacs is best known for his sneering sideline in hammy villainy. Harry Potter\u2018s Lucius Malfoy might be the most famous example, but The Patriot\u2018s William Tavington is easily the best<\/a>.<\/p>\n Whether he\u2019s almost ruining his career<\/a> by pulling double duty in 2003\u2019s Peter Pan or earning the first major mainstream awards recognition of his professional life for The White Lotus, the star has done an effective job in cornering the market on being a detestable dickhead, and, with the greatest of respect, he\u2019s got the perfect face for it, if we\u2019re being honest.<\/p>\n He can do stoic, too, though, even if Isaacs is nowhere near as effective when he\u2019s buttoned up. In his second major role in an American movie, and the first one anybody remembers, since you either didn\u2019t know or completely forgot he was in Dragonheart, the actor played ship doctor DJ in Paul WS Anderson\u2019s Event Horizon.<\/p>\n Is the sci-fi horror flick a good film? That\u2019s up for debate, although it does have its moments. However, it can\u2019t be denied that over the last three decades it\u2019s become a firm cult favourite<\/a>, to the point that its fabled director\u2019s cut has taken on almost mythic proportions, mostly because nobody will ever see it after the extra footage was destroyed.<\/p>\n The theatrical version is pretty gnarly as it is, but Isaacs suggested that some of the scenes left on the cutting room floor would have significantly upped the ante. \u201cIf you watch the film, it does occasionally flash to what happened when it went to hell,\u201d he explained. \u201cAnd there\u2019s all kinds of what looks like, \u2018Is it an orgy? Is it a massacre? What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: Cutting Room Floor<\/p>\n Beyond that, he even suggested that those orgy\/massacre scenes were even more shocking in the flesh. \u201cThey shot it on a soundstage next to us, and there are things that are definitely illegal to do now, probably illegal to do then, with a whole bunch of people with certain things wrong with their body or mind,\u201d he added, making it sounds like some seriously fucked-up stuff was going down on that set.<\/p>\n Sadly, we\u2019ll never know if it was a bird, a plane, a massacre, an orgy, or merely a bunch of extras and background actors being so good at their jobs they convinced Isaacs that laws were being flagrantly broken, but this long after Event Horizon\u2018s 1997 release<\/a>, he must have seen some shit for it to remain seared into his brain so long after the fact.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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