Jason Isaacs was ‘terrified’ to play Cary Grant in ‘Archie’
nypost.com“Harry Potter” films, “Black Hawk Down,” “Peter Pan,” “The Death of Stalin” and “Star Trek: Discovery” — he said he was apprehensive about this miniseries.“Because it’s Cary Grant,” he said. “If you ask people on the street about him, the same adjectives come to the surface: debonair, smart, ladykiller, the epitome of masculinity.
I thought, ‘Why would anybody try and step into boots which are 100 feet long?’ And, you have that unusual voice. “It turns out that he struggled himself to play Cary Grant, which is why there’s no recorded interview of him,” Isaacs said. “When he got off set and got home, he was almost the opposite of every quality the world thought he had.
I was anxious that people would expect to see Cary Grant on the screen, which I could never and would never try to be.“But, I rose to the challenge of showing them the man they didn’t know, behind the mask.”The miniseries, created by Jeff Pope, airs on ITV in the UK and streams on BritBox in the US starting Dec.
7. It’s a straight-ahead is biopic about Archibald Leach (Cary Grant’s birth name), from his impoverished and troubled beginnings in Bristol, England, to his reinvention as the movie star legend, Cary Grant, to his tumultuous marriages later in life — especially with his fourth wife, Dyan Cannon (Laura Aikman), to whom Grant was married from 1965-68.
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