Ethan Hawke Reveals Why Playing His Moon Knight Character Is 'Fascinating'
Moon Knight star Ethan Hawke is fascinated by his role as Arthur Harrow in the upcoming live-action adaptation of the Marvel comic, which debuts later this month on Disney Plus. During a recent press junket, the four-time Academy Award nominee discussed playing the antagonist in a story where nothing is as it seems.
The new Marvel Studios' series follows Oscar Isaac's Marc Spector/Moon Knight, a former mercenary who suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder and is also the avatar of Khonshu, an otherworldly entity once worshipped by ancient Earth people. Hawke's character sees Moon Knight as an obstacle to his megalomaniac affairs, so he tries to get Spector to embrace his dark side.
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Although religious zealot Harrow is framed as the villain, Moon Knight's mental illness makes him an unreliable narrator —which, according to Hawke, is the most interesting aspect of the forthcoming Marvel series. «Once you’ve broken the prism of reality, everything the audience is seeing is from a skewed point of view,» he said at the press conference. «That’s really interesting for the villain: Am I really being seen as I am?»
Hawke continued, explaining that audiences have seen countless stories where mental illness is used as «a building block for the villain» but few (if any) where the hero is suffering from mental health issues. «That’s fascinating: we’ve now inverted the whole process, and now as the antagonist, I can’t be crazy because the hero is crazy,» said Hawke. He then added that it forced him to find inspiration in a «sane lunatic or a sane malevolent source» —like real-life cult leader David Koresh.
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