Moon Knight star Oscar Isaac admits he had serious ‘reservations’ about joining Marvel universe

By Bollywood Hungama News Network -

March 23, 2022 - 6:00 PM IST

Oscar Isaac, who will headline Marvel's new Disney+ series Moon Knight, has recently revealed that he was in two minds about signing with the Marvel Cinematic Universe after appearing in the Star Wars sequel trilogy series.

Moon Knight star Oscar Isaac admits he had serious ‘reservations’ about joining Marvel universe

“For me, it was all reservations,” Isaac shared in a recent interview with Radio Times. “I had just kind of got out of the whole, you know, big machinery of ‘Star Wars.’ And I was like, ‘I just really want to do character studies. And I don’t know.' It was months of smashing my head against a stone wall like, ‘Is this the right thing to do?’ I thought, ‘I shouldn’t do it. Maybe, maybe…'”

Oscar Isaac previously portrayed X-wing pilot Poe Dameron in Disney’s Star Wars trilogy films Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. As the actor explained, he saw an “opportunity” to play with multiple personalities in his next major role in Disney+ series. “Suddenly [character] Steven Grant started appearing for me, and I started doing it around the house for my kids and my wife, and they kept asking me to do it. And I was like, ‘Alright, well, maybe there’s something here,'” Isaac said.

“That’s the risk, sometimes you have an idea of what you want to do. And then something comes to you. And I just kept thinking about it,” he added. The 43-year-old actor eventually ended up making some changes to his character’s accent, giving it a British take, which was radically different from what Marvel had pitched him. Further, he revealed that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige was supportive and gave his approval for re-evaluating the character.

“It wasn’t necessarily written that way at all, and so I thought, ‘OK, well, let me see what Kevin says about this.’ And so I had a meeting with Kevin, I said, ‘This is how I’d want to do it.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, OK, go for it,'” Isaac recalled. “It’s funny because, afterwards, he told me they didn’t know what the hell I was doing. And they weren’t sure it was going to work at all. But you know, in the end, I’m glad we did that because everyone says it kind of makes the show.”

The Dune actor further added, “What was amazing about Kevin and everyone at Marvel is that there was a lot of faith and a lot of trust in my opinions about it, and my feelings about it. So like talking to [director] Mohamed [Diab] about where we wanted the story to go, getting Ethan [Hawke] to be part of it. And already, it started to become a very personal story.”

Moon Knight debuts exclusively on Disney+ Hotstar beginning March 30. The much-anticipated series follows Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac), a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life. Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.

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