Kevin Feige Reveals How He Convinced Oscar Isaac To Join Moon Knight
Oscar Isaac is no stranger to starring in blockbuster franchises after playing roles in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and inX-Men: Apocalypse. Now gearing up to star in Marvel Studios' Moon Knight series, a project based on the comic book hero who first debuted back in 1975, Marvel boss Kevin Feige believed Isaac to be the perfect fit to bring the character to life, as he has now shared how he convinced Isaac to join the exciting MCU project.
Isaac will make his MCU debut as Marc Spector, a mercenary who embodies the complicated vigilante Moon Knight and suffers from a dissociative identity disorder. Spector was a former US marine facing death before his life fell in the hands of Khonshu, the ancient Egyptian god of the Moon, for whom he has now become a conduit. The multiple identities of Moon Knight fight for control of his body amid a war against the backdrop of modern and Ancient Egypt.
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While Isaac knew very little about the character, Feige shared with Empire magazine in their new Moon Knight issue how he approached the actor and why he believed him to be right for the role. “We’ve always loved Moon Knight… he always fascinated us as something we hadn’t seen before, [so] when the Disney Plus idea came up, it quickly became one of the first things we wanted to do, because we loved the story," Feige recalled. «We’d always liked [Isaac]… and he clearly likes this world – Star Wars, X-Men – but we hadn’t found the right thing, necessarily. We started talking, and he had a couple of outside-the-box ideas that we were like, ‘Maybe this could work...: And spoiler alert: they do.”
After his blockbuster success, Isaac also shared with Empire in
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