Jason Isaacs opens up about missing 'Harry Potter' scene

Jason Isaacs reflected on scene from Harry Potter's book series that was excluded from the film.

In the Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, a fistfight occurs between Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy in the bookstore Flourish and Blotts.

During an appearance at the FanExpo Denver, The White Lotus star shared the reason why the sequence was left out.

"Yes, I don’t wish I could have done the fight. It was a brilliant question. It’s the difference between reading a book and making a film," Isaacs said.

He further explained of not filming the scene, "In the book, they have a fight. Arthur Weasley knocks Lucius on his a**e or a**, as you would say."

The actor continued, "And the reason we didn’t do it, and I talked about it with Chris Columbus, is because in a movie, you want to wait for the satisfaction of Lucius getting his comeuppance."

However, Isaacs believes that Malfoy got the taste of his own medicine towards the ending of the film.

"We get that when Dobby knocks me over. If you’d got it at the beginning of the film, Lucius wouldn’t have any status. You wouldn’t build up the threat. You wouldn’t be scared of him," he said.

"And then right at the end, when Dumbledore goes, ‘I know it was you. Don’t ever do it again,’ and I come out then I get Dobby the sock. That’s where the audience finally gets satisfied," Isaacs concluded.