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Jason Isaacs as ruthless British Col. William Tavington,
who perpetrates horrific acts against the Martin family
(headed by Mel Gibson) and other colonists.

he confides. "But there is the sense
that Britain can be a very xenophobic
country; it's not just directed at Jews
but at anybody who isn't the perceived
version of what `English-ness' is.
"Of course, England is an extraor-
dinarily multicultural society, and the
notion of what's perceived as English
is a relic, a fossil. The result is that
people are not `loud' about being
Jewish. They don't stick their heads
above the parapet."
Neither did Isaacs, as he pursued
his acting career: "I don't talk about
being Jewish," he says, believing it's
important for an actor to be "as neu-
tral a being as possible." In The End of
the Affair, for example, he plays a
priest, and he doesn't want viewers to
be watching and thinking, 'How iron-
ic, this actor is Jewish.'"
Of his Patriot role, he says, "I sus-
pect there were not too many Jewish
officers in the British army in the late
1700s."
Isaacs believes that "everyone is a
`hyphenate' in America, whether
Jewish-American or Italian-American,
but no one is a hypenate in England.

I'm not a religious person, but I'm
very Jewish, and I feel a great weight
off my shoulders being a Jew in
Hollywood," he says.
While Isaacs' parents reacted to
feeling unwelcome in England by
making aliya to Israel in 1988 along
with his three brothers (two subse-
quently returned), the actor responded
in another manner.
When he entered Bristol University,
he says, "there were lots of very upper-
and upper-middle-class British people
with accents I had never heard before,
and I felt very strange being a Jew
from North London, completely out
of sorts."
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rehearsal, and "I suddenly felt that my
background was irrelevant, and
income was irrelevant and accent was
irrelevant, because there was just this
ready-made family of rehearsal group.
I took to it and I became totally
addicted to it, and I did plays and
plays and plays every term."
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He felt that he belonged. After gradu-
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