Jason Isaacs on 'Good Sam,' Playing a Father-Daughter Relationship With Sophia Bush, and 'Harry Potter's 20th Anniversary

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Jason Isaacs talks about his new CBS show 'Good Sam,' working with Sophia Bush, and 'Harry Potter's 20th anniversary.

From show creator Katie Wech , the CBS series Good Sam is part medical procedural and part family drama, as gifted heart surgeon Dr. Sam Griffith and her father, Dr. Rob “Griff” Griffith , who’s recently woken up from a months-long coma, have to go head-to-head to determine which of them will be the chief of surgery.

When this came your way, did you only get the pilot to read? Did you have conversations with the creative team about what this would be? Did you have any more of a clue about how this would all develop? When it came to the character specifically, was he always on the page the way that we see him now? Has he become more terrible, has he been softened, or was that balance always there?

Even the worst of them, in the most high profile thing I’ve ever done, with the Harry Potter film, he’s an old-fashioned eugenicist and racist. There’s plenty of those around. There’s plenty of them elected to power. There’s some who have sat in the highest seats in the world, more recently. He looks in the mirror every day and sees himself as the savior and that he’s the only person that sees that pure blood is what counts, and mixing blood and mixing races is an obscenity.

What is it like to play a character when it seems that everybody around him is happier when he’s not around? Does any of it ever even get through to him? ISAACS: It is both and all of those things. Shows find their tone. They’re all very different. I’ve done a lot more film than I’ve done television, but I know that The OA had a particular tone with a magical realism to it.

This guy keeps doing bad things, but he seems to still just expect people to listen to him and do what he says anyway. Do you think he has an awareness of how his actions affect other people? Part of his thinking, at least, and the audience can decide for themselves, is that he needs to toughen her up. She’s not ready to do this job. She might be a lovely boss and everyone’s very happy working for her and patient surveys all give her five stars, but she’ll actually be destroyed by this in no time at all, unless he toughens her up and cauterizes her against that stuff. ISAACS: You’re asking me about a different show and a different person, reacting in different ways.

You mentioned Harry Potter, and everyone is revisiting those films for the 20th anniversary. What’s it like for you to revisit those films? Have you ever rewatched or revisited them, at any point over the years?

 

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