Moon Knight leading man Oscar Isaac revealed that he had never heard of the Fist of Khonshu before he was cast as the character in Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series.
Isaac told this to fellow actor Jared Leto — who will play fellow Marvel Comics character Morbius in the upcoming Sony-produced Spider-Man spinoff film — while the two spoke to one another for Variety‘s Actors on Actors. “I’d never heard of Moon Knight before, and I collected comics when I was younger,” Isaac said. “I’d heard of Morbius, but I’d never heard of Moon Knight. I don’t know how the process was for you because it’s a feature film, we’re a limited series.”
Isaac added that Disney+’s Moon Knight had “a lot of room to try stuff because there wasn’t the pressure that [the cast and crew] got to make sure [they] make however many hundreds of millions of dollars on the opening weekend,” so they could “make it very point-of-view.” “We could make very weird decisions,” he concluded. “At the moment, at least — and I don’t imagine it’s going to go backwards — it feels like that’s where more of the risk is being taken because it can financially.”
Additionally, while he did not know who the title character was, Isaac talked about how Moon Knight was the greatest risk he had ever taken when asked about the subject, stating, “I gotta say what I’m doing right now. I’m doing this show called Moon Knight, and we’ve got a month left, and I feel like that so far this might be the one where it was like, oh, I was so nervous about it but I’ve just been having such a blast.”
Following the release of its first trailer, Disney+ released Moon Knight‘s official synopsis, which says that the show will follow the fan-favorite antihero’s Steven Grant identity. Grant learns that he “shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector,” and as their enemies begin to come after them, the pair “must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.”
Moon Knight arrives on Disney+ on March 30.
Source: Variety
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