Interview: Moon Knight Costume Designer on Working With Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke

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ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Moon Knight costume designer Meghan Kasperlik about designing the Marvel Cinematic Universe series‘ incredible costumes ahead of the Disney+ show coming out on 4K and Blu-ray. Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Moon Knight, Andor, and Obi-Wan Kenobi will be released on 4K UHD and Blu-ray SteelBook on April 30.

Moon Knight “follows Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life,” says the official synopsis. “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.”

: Well, I worked very closely with the Marvel visual development department because they had such a hand in it before I was even brought on, so that was a very important detail from the director. So incorporating that into the suit is how do we make it mummy, like the mummy bandages, but also modernize it? So, how I did that was that I chose the fabric and then 3D printed on top of the fabric to bring layers, dimension, and brilliance to it.

So there’s five layers of 3D print on the fabric, and then it’s like pieced together. FBFX was the team that built the suit in London, and at a certain point, they told me there was over 800 pieces to the suit. It was a major labor of love, but I think the outcome and like the result of adding all of those details into it really helped build a new character and new costuming in the MCU.

I had a really great time because I did so much of my own personal research before kind of coming in and collaborating with the team. I collaborated not only with Marvel but also with the production designer and the cinematographer on how the shots were going to be, what the lighting was going to be, and how to incorporate the costumes and the set or how we can do the modern