It was my wife, who else? She always calls at the most inappropriate moments. So I pull it out of my pocket and answer it and I just screamed, ‘(Expletive) off!’ and put it back in the pocket and we finished the play. “And finally, it’s this deafening ring - it doesn’t sound like it’s in somebody’s bag or pocket, it feels like they’re holding it up - and finally I realize it’s in my pocket. We’d spent two hours earning that silence and we’re bristling with fury thinking, ‘You’ve ruined this moment! You’ve ruined this play!’ “And it rings quietly at first, and you think, ‘Doesn’t matter, we’re going to hold the silence for two or three minutes anyway, the tension will build.’ But whoever it is, they don’t answer their phone! And the ring keeps getting louder and louder and louder. And the silence in the theater was electric, you could hear a spider blink. And the whole thing led up to a very long pause and silence at the end when someone finally cracks and confesses. “It was a very hot ticket and it exposed all kinds of corruption and collusion about the Irish peace process. There was the time he was in a drama at the Royal Court in London. It’s just a waterfall of catastrophes and they’re always on stage, those are the worst.” When asked to share a worst moment from his career, he laughed. I’d assumed it was just a predictive text mistake and he was trying to send it Jason Statham, but I said yes before he could change his mind.” “My friends know that I’m funny,” he said, “but I was stunned that Armando asked me to be in the film. He’s also currently filming the second season of Netflix’s “The OA.”īut his role as a puffed-up army general in the new 1953-set comedy “The Death of Stalin” from “Veep” creator Armando Iannucci - a film that “somehow manages to acknowledge the murderous depths of Josef Stalin’s regime while rising to the level of incisive, even invigorating political satire” per Tribune critic Michael Phillips - is something entirely unexpected: Isaacs being absurd and funny. as Lucius Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” films, or more recently as “Star Trek: Discovery’s” Captain Gabriel Lorca. Well-known in the U.K., British actor Jason Isaacs is probably best recognized in the U.S.
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