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THE WEST WING 6.01 – “N.S.F. Thurmont”

For years I had hated anyone that got between Donna and Josh, obviously, because that’s the point of the show: this fabulously unconsummated relationship that eeks out for years and years and years. So to be one of those people, those hateable people… That’s another thing that I remember is that I’d already been in, I think, the first of the Harry Potters. I’d already been in Chamber of Secrets, so although I was on West Wing, clearly benign and grinning like a psychotic person, but nonetheless playing a character - so many people thought that I had planted the bomb. I can’t tell you the number of people. There wasn’t Twitter in those days, but somehow I got the feedback that lots of people knew that it had to be me because I’m a Death Eater. (…) I wanted to be in the show as much as possible, but I as a huge fan of Josh and Donna I thought, “Get me out of here!” - Jason Isaacs

This is taking too long. Isn’t this taking too long?

There was this girl when I was 16. No, 17. She was mad about me, worshipped me, really, and I liked her, but I was off to the University in Dublin and she was going to stay in Belfast, work in her dad’s shop. She wrote to me every single day, and she called weekends, and she was always there. And I took her for granted, you know?

requested | “I went to great lengths…” (insp.)