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LWLies: What other projects are you working on?
Isaacs: I got lots of stuff; I was in The Green Zone, I was away in Morocco for most of last year. It was an amazing experience all of my stuff was either with Matt Damon or the rest of my unit which was made up of real soldiers and marines who had just got back from Iraq and Afghanistan and were on their way back to Iraq and Afghanistan. They were very, very interesting and inspiring group of young men, very noble in many ways when they were off some of them were offering to help out. Whether or not the army should’ve gone into those countries and the things they do or don’t do, those individuals who I met I found to be incredibly impressive and humbling. But also a bunch of raucous and testosterone filled young men on the road in a strange country. They’re a big swirling mass of contradictions so to be on a film set where you get to have lunch with American soldiers and Iraqis and Lebanese and Moroccans and Israelis and to have the kind of healthy, vigorous debates that would happen at every lunch and every dinner whilst running around and jumping out of helicopters and shooting things. It was slightly too interesting for a man of my age.
LWLies: Did you really jump out of a helicopter?
Isaacs: Oh I really jumped out of a helicopter and did all kinds of stuff. Paul (Greengrass) really throws you into that sort of thing and it really wasn’t meant for my part, it’s really not a big part and it was last minute and I’m not quite sure I would do that stuff as it mostly soldiering I do there’s not that much acting. He’s an old mate and phoned me up and asked if I wanted to come to Morocco for a bit and I ended up being there for months and months and months. The day I went to the set for him to approve the costume he went “jump in that helicopter, let’s do a scene”. So I was hanging by a strap as we were up there banking in the air and I’m thinking I can’t show these other boys that I’m scared as their all soldiers, it’s terrifying to me and I look over to them and they’re screaming “Fuckin’ hell!” They weren’t used to being in these old things that were made in the 50s and 60s, they didn’t know the parts. It was very, very hairy on day one and it got hairier from then on, there’s almost nothing faked in that film so all came away really bruised and battered.
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From http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/interv ... on-isaacs/
Independent UK film magazine
April 17, 2009
Isaacs: I got lots of stuff; I was in The Green Zone, I was away in Morocco for most of last year. It was an amazing experience all of my stuff was either with Matt Damon or the rest of my unit which was made up of real soldiers and marines who had just got back from Iraq and Afghanistan and were on their way back to Iraq and Afghanistan. They were very, very interesting and inspiring group of young men, very noble in many ways when they were off some of them were offering to help out. Whether or not the army should’ve gone into those countries and the things they do or don’t do, those individuals who I met I found to be incredibly impressive and humbling. But also a bunch of raucous and testosterone filled young men on the road in a strange country. They’re a big swirling mass of contradictions so to be on a film set where you get to have lunch with American soldiers and Iraqis and Lebanese and Moroccans and Israelis and to have the kind of healthy, vigorous debates that would happen at every lunch and every dinner whilst running around and jumping out of helicopters and shooting things. It was slightly too interesting for a man of my age.
LWLies: Did you really jump out of a helicopter?
Isaacs: Oh I really jumped out of a helicopter and did all kinds of stuff. Paul (Greengrass) really throws you into that sort of thing and it really wasn’t meant for my part, it’s really not a big part and it was last minute and I’m not quite sure I would do that stuff as it mostly soldiering I do there’s not that much acting. He’s an old mate and phoned me up and asked if I wanted to come to Morocco for a bit and I ended up being there for months and months and months. The day I went to the set for him to approve the costume he went “jump in that helicopter, let’s do a scene”. So I was hanging by a strap as we were up there banking in the air and I’m thinking I can’t show these other boys that I’m scared as their all soldiers, it’s terrifying to me and I look over to them and they’re screaming “Fuckin’ hell!” They weren’t used to being in these old things that were made in the 50s and 60s, they didn’t know the parts. It was very, very hairy on day one and it got hairier from then on, there’s almost nothing faked in that film so all came away really bruised and battered.
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From http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/interv ... on-isaacs/
Independent UK film magazine
April 17, 2009
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I found a video interview. it almost looks like they bumped into him in the hall, or something.
http://www.cinema.de/kino/trailer/video ... Video.html
Talks about this character, Green Zone, and a little bit of Harry Potter.
http://www.cinema.de/kino/trailer/video ... Video.html
Talks about this character, Green Zone, and a little bit of Harry Potter.
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LOL..yeah he was like really hyper.
Just found this:
Jason Isaacs: Matt Damon told me to hit him
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/break ... 08546.html
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Just found this:
Jason Isaacs: Matt Damon told me to hit him
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/break ... 08546.html
~me