Oscar Issac has praised his experience on Marvel’s Moon Knight, even though he admits that the workload made it one of the "most challenging" projects of his career.
Isaac appeared on a recent episode of Variety's Awards Circuit Podcast where he reflected on some of the most recent and upcoming entries in his acting portfolio, including Moon Knight. He spoke about his time on set and admitted that it was a pretty gruelling schedule but one that he loved turning up for because he was very much involved in the creative process.
"Speaking with Kevin [Feige], I told him I'm going to come in with these big ideas, and if you don't like them, that's fair," Isaac said. "And immediately, we saw it all. I found so much room to do things that I've never done before and had been curious about and wanting to do. I could not wait to get to set, and it was the biggest workload I've ever had in my career and most challenging; by the sheer amount of stuff we had to do in eight months, and even yet, I couldn't wait to get to set and work."
Issac was cast in the lead role in the Disney+ series, playing Marc Spector, a former soldier of fortune, whose encounter with an Egyptian god of vengeance and moon deity, Khonshu, inspires his transformation into a costumed vigilante who is suffering from dissociative identity disorder, meaning he will present as several different personalities.
Ethan Hawke is also starring in the series and is reportedly playing the villain to Isaac's Moon Knight. Hawke has notoriously stayed away from comic book movies and mainstream Hollywood franchises, however, Issac managed to get him on board for the MCU miniseries by simply asking him if he wanted to join in on the action.
Moon Knight was first announced at D23 in August 2019 and is now set to stream exclusively on Disney+ in 2022. The series will consist of six episodes altogether, with some being helmed by Egyptian writer-director Mohamed Diab and others directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Jeremy Slater is overseeing and leading the show's writer's room.
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