Oscar Isaac Is Confident We’ll See More Moon Knight

As Oscar Isaac took the stage at New York City Comic Con 2022 for his highlight panel, the applause was, and I’m not being facetious right here, deafening. A highlight panel usually focuses on a single actor, and Isaac’s followers crammed up the complete Empire Stage Room—the second-largest stage at NYCC. As the panel started, the moderator’s questions rapidly turned to Moon Knight, Isaac’s Marvel automobile that has him taking part in two to a few completely different variations of his character, Marc Spector.

According to Isaac on the panel, Marvel’s Kevin Feige had been speaking with Isaac for some time, searching for a very good venture with which to convey him on board. So when Moon Knight got here to him, he was very excited. “I saw this opportunity to talk about something that’s often difficult to talk about, but using the language of comics, myth, and the literal underworld to talk about the underworld of the human psyche.”

As they mentioned how Isaac ready for the position of Marc Spector, he talked about that he was fortunate to have his brother Mike Hernandez on set with him. Isaac was in a position to run strains with Hernandez, switching roles and perfecting the mannerisms that helped make every identification inside Spector distinct. “We would take turns playing different parts, and I would remember what he did and I’d do my version. I had my lines fed into my ear, I was acting at nothing. It was a bit of a puzzle to figure out.”

A fan requested what sort of preparation Isaac went by means of to make the characters so completely different. Besides having his brother on set to assist him work by means of the variations in mannerisms, Isaac stated that initially he requested to not should play a couple of character throughout every taking pictures day. “The physicality and the costumes really helped when thinking about how to play these characters. Like Steven was this tall person who always wanted to seem smaller than they are, so he was always collapsing on himself a little bit. Marc stands differently. As I got more comfortable with the characters during a long shoot—a very long shoot, it was seven months—I got more comfortable, more flexible, being able to switch between characters. Sometimes I would be able to do it just switching line to line.”

Isaac additionally talked about that he had “so much fun playing Steven. He was so honest and funny and authentic. I loved how he was in the world, how he related to people in the world without a filter or judgment.”

Moon Knight was additionally praised by a fan for its delicate and regarded depiction of Dissociative Identity Disorder. The actor was requested what work he did to arrange for the position and find out about DID for his portrayal. “First, thank you for that question,” Isaac stated, “that, for me, was the most important part. If [Moon Knight] wasn’t about us talking about DID, and committing 100% to diving into it in an authentic way, there was no point in doing it. We ended up researching a lot and talking to a lot of therapists who dealt with DID-affected patients. There was one book in particular by Robert Oxman,” Isaac stated, referencing the 2005 memoir A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder, “that became my bible.”

Isaac expanded on this, saying that finally this type of psychological fracturing is a sort of superpower. “That someone can live through such horrible sustained trauma for so long and, as a way to survive, the mind finds a way to give birth to these other personas that can hold onto that trauma, that can help that human survive. For us that was deeply important,” Isaac stated. He recalled a line from Moon Knight, when Marc is watching Steven flip to sand in episode six: “You are the only real superpower I’ve ever had.” Isaac stated that line was “something that came out of all of these conversations about DID. I feel like this line is the whole point of the entire thing.”

When the moderator slyly requested if we’re a Season 2 of Moon Knight, Isaac deflected—however barely. (He did present up on TikTok in August to possibly, sorta tease the return of Marc Spector.) But all he stated into the mic was that the tip of Moon Knight isn’t the final that you just’ll see of his Marvel character.

Moon Knight is obtainable to stream on Disney+.

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