‘Harry Potter’ star Jason Isaacs sports hostage ribbon at TV premiere
Jewish actor has been spotted in the past few months wearing yellow lapel pin, has declined to discuss the ongoing Gaza conflict
British actor Jason Isaacs was spotted wearing a yellow hostage pin on his lapel at the season three premiere of the TV show “The White Lotus” in Los Angeles on Monday night.
Isaacs, 61, grew up in a Jewish family in Liverpool and London, and his parents later settled in Israel, where his mother died in 2014.
He has been tight-lipped about the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023, massacre, although he has been spotted wearing the ribbon before, including at the Britain Independent Film Awards in December 2024 as well as the premiere of the play “Barcelona” in London in October 2024.
Asked about the conflict in a November 2023 interview with The Independent, Isaacs said: “It’s just such an enormous thing to talk about that I don’t think it can be tacked onto a publicity interview.”
The actor is best known for his portrayal of Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, and has also appeared in “Black Hawk Down,” “Peter Pan,” “The Death of Stalin,” and taken part in a wide range of television, film and theater productions.
In 2014 he starred in the US television show “Dig,” which was filmed in Israel and delayed due to that year’s Israel-Gaza war, and ultimately canceled after one season.
In past interviews, Isaacs has spoken about facing antisemitic violence as a teenager as well as attending a Jewish cheder school as a child, and instilling his children with Jewish cultural, but not religious, values.
