The Harry Potter franchise turned its three leads into stars and created iconic roles for a number of other actors.
Jason Isaacs was cast as Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but as it turns out, that wasn’t the role in the film he wanted.
He had actually auditioned for a different part, and after being asked to read for the Malfoy role he was ready to turn it down, because he was already set to play a villain in another film geared towards kids, and didn’t want to do another so close to the first.
He even gave his agent instructions on what do when the call came in.