When talking about the 2000 war movie The Patriot, one has to admit it’s a period piece that isn’t boring. But in the same conversation, it should also be remembered that it’s also one of the many wildly inaccurate historical films out there. Jason Isaacs is humorously doing just that to the Roland Emmerich title by bringing Harry Potter into the mix.
Isaacs has been a regular of the 2025 movie calendar, along with his stint on White Lotus. But as he chatted with EW, two classics of his–The Patriot and Harry Potter–were the focal point of discussion. The 62-year-old wanted to re-iterate how fictitious the Isaacs, Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger flick is. Amusingly, he did so by highlighting that the JK Rowling series is closer to more historically on point than The Patriot itself:
