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American actor Oscar Isaac, who is awaiting the release of his upcoming superhero miniseries, ‘Moon Knight, recently shared the reason behind signing the project. For him, the internal struggle of his character became his anchor point as an actor.

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Speaking on the sidelines of a media interaction for ‘Moon Knight’, Oscar Isaac spoke about the reason for taking up the project. He said, “It just seemed like there was a real opportunity to do something completely different, particularly in the MCU, and to really focus on this internal struggle of this character, and to use Egyptian iconography and the superhero genre and this language to talk about this real internal struggle.”

“And also to create an indelible, unusual character, particularly with Steven Grant. So it felt like for me once I got a real take on how I wanted to play Steven and I brought that to everyone and they welcomed that with open arms, I also realized I had real, incredible collaborators and it was going to be a creative adventure”, Oscar Isaac added.

Egyptian actress May Calamawy, who will be seen essaying the role of Layla El-Faouly in the series, spoke about the traits of her character and how the series allowed her to explore more as an actress, “I love how strong she is. But at the same time, I felt like I got to play the full gamut of a woman with her because she’s strong and she’s for the people and fights for what she believes, but she’s also really vulnerable and scared. So that was fun for me.”

Mohamed Diab, who leads the direction team, remarked that the series blends in all the classic elements to serve a compelling story. He said, “One of the things that I’m really proud of — again collectively every one of us — is putting all those genres together and blending them in a way that doesn’t feel alien. You have horror, you have action, you have comedy, and you have very serious drama.”

For actor Ethan Hawke, the fondest memory of the series is from their shoot in Jordan. Being from a theatre background it was interesting for him to enact within the set-up of green screen.

Ethan said, “Getting to be on the deserts in Jordan and literally being on location where they shot “Lawrence of Arabia”. And one of the things that surprised me about the Marvel Universe is that it’s kind of fun acting in front of a lot of green screens. I come from theatre training. I enjoyed all that, pretending something was there, pretending you’re on top of a pyramid.”

“But then when you’re really in the desert, it’s so beautiful and you feel — I don’t know, I felt some kind of connection to the cinema history of the desert. And the people there in Jordan treated us so well, and it elevated our collective imagination, I think, and it broadened the scope of the show”, he concluded.

Written by Jeremy Slater, directed by Mohamed Diab and filmmaking duo Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, Marvel Studios’ ‘Moon Knight’ stars, Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy. The series is set to premiere on Disney+ Hotstar from March 30 in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

Oscar Isaac

Biography

Oscar Isaac is an American film and television actor, musician and singer of Guatemalan and Cuban descent. He’s a graduate from the Juilliard School in New York City, USA, and starred in feature films such as Inside Llewyn Davis, directed by the Coen Brothers, the science fiction thriller Ex Machina, the Star Wars franchise films Episode VII – The Force Awakens and Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, and as the mutant supervillain Apocalypse in the ninth X-Men film X-Men: Apocalypse.

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Solid Snake
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One)

Miguel O’Hara / Spider-Man 2099 (Voice)
2022
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The Great Machine

Mitchell Hundred
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Francis and The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola
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The Card Counter

William ‘Tell’ Tillich
2021
The Addams Family 2

Gomez Addams (Voice)
2021
Dune

Duke Leto Atreides
2021
Beirut

Torch
2021
Marvel Studios’ 2021 Disney+ Day Special

Steven Grant / Marc Spector / Moon Knight
2021
2020
2020
The Addams Family

Gomez Addams (Voice)
2019
Triple Frontier

Santiago ‘Pope’ Garcia
2019
2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Interesting Person #1 (Voice)
2018
Operation Finale

Peter Malkin
2018
At Eternity’s Gate

Paul Gauguin
2018
Life Itself

Will Dempsey
2018
Bobbi Jene

Himself
2017
2017
Suburbicon

Bud Cooper
2017
X-Men: Apocalypse

En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse
2016
Lightningface

Basil Stitt
2016
The Promise

Mikael Boghosian
2016
Time to Choose

Narrator
2015
Mojave

Jack
2015
2015
Ticky Tacky

Lucien
2014
Drive: Radio 1 Rescore

Standard Gabriel
2014
A Most Violent Year

Abel Morales
2014
Ex Machina

Nathan Bateman
2014
2014
2013
In Secret

Laurent LeClaire
2013
Inside Llewyn Davis

Llewyn Davis
2013
For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada

Victoriano ‘El Catorce’ Ramirez
2012
The Bourne Legacy

Outcome #3
2012
2012
Won’t Back Down

Michael Perry
2012
10 Years

Reeves
2012
Sucker Punch

Blue Jones
2011
W.E.

Evgeni
2011
Drive

Standard Gabriel
2011
Robin Hood

Prince John
2010
Agora

Orestes
2009
Balibo

Jose Ramos-Horta
2009
Body of Lies

Bassam
2008
Che: Part One

U.N. Interpreter
2008
Pu-239

Shiv
2006
2006
2005
2002
Illtown

Pool Boy
1996
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