THE MAN
Jason Isaacs was not a fan of Cary Grant prior to being cast in Archie, an upcoming show that charts the Hollywood leading man’s early life as Archibald Leach. It was his deep research that changed him. “I’ve been through quite a journey,” he tells Empire. “The more films I watched, the more I realised that the reason he became the biggest star in the world was that you couldn’t take your eyes off him.” Isaacs read every biography available and had long, candid discussions with Dyan Cannon, Grant’s ex-wife, and his daughter, executive producer of the show, Jennifer Grant, who gave him home videos. “I’ve always found that you never get a fuller picture of someone than by talking to the people who love them, or who had their hearts broken by them.”
Suits you, sir: Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant in Archie;