Oscar Isaac may be in the midst of promoting a new Disney series, but that doesn’t mean he’ll hold back criticism of the company’s corporate response to Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.
06.03.2022 - 17:49 / usmagazine.com
Meant to be! Oscar Isaac made his Saturday Night Live debut and couldn’t resist teasing excited Marvel fans about his forthcoming role in Disney+’s Moon Knight — which he may have manifested years earlier.
“I am excited about joining the Marvel universe with Moon Knight,” the Dune star, 42, gushed during his monologue during the Saturday, March 5, episode of the sketch series. “It’s kind of a full-circle moment since the first movie I was ever in was called The Avenger. Not The Avengers, which was a massive blockbuster.”
He continued: “No, no, this was The Avenger, which is a movie I wrote, directed and starred in when I was 10 years old. It was shot on location in my buddy Bruce Ferguson’s backyard, in our hometown of Miami, Florida.”
Isaac — who shared home footage of the throwback production — joked that it is “arguably better” than MCU’s The Avengers, which he made with “half the budget.”
“But I took it really seriously—maybe a little too seriously. … I actually had to sign a licensing agreement to show it. It’s true,” the actor — whose real name is Oscar Isaac Hernández Estrada — said during Saturday’s episode. “It’s important to encourage kids to be weirdos because, every once in a while, one of those weirdos grows up to host SNL.”
While Isaac excitedly made his SNL debut on Saturday, he’s been gearing up to play former Marine Marc Spector in Marvel’s Moon Knight series for Disney+. Spector, who suffered from dissociative identity disorder, eventually becomes a conduit for an Egyptian moon god — and a superhero with the Moon Knight moniker.
“I found so much room to do things that I’ve never done before and had been curious about and wanting to do,” the Scenes From a Marriage actor told Variety of his MCU role in October
Oscar Isaac may be in the midst of promoting a new Disney series, but that doesn’t mean he’ll hold back criticism of the company’s corporate response to Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.
an escalating employee backlash at the Mouse House threatening to spoil the party.Disney is scrambling to contain the fallout over its response to a Florida bill that would bar teachers from discussing LGBTQ topics like sexual orientation or gender identity with students unless they’re in the fourth grade or higher. The issue prompted an internal battle among company employees who are divided on whether Disney should get political.Left-leaning employees staged walkouts this week, arguing the company failed the LGBT community by initially failing to denounce the bill.
“Moon Knight”Wednesday, March 30, Disney+Marvel Studios’ latest Disney+ original series (its sixth) is a relatively deep cut character – Marc Spector (played by Oscar Isaac), a man who, depending on the comic book run, is truly inhabited by a deity from ancient Egypt or just deeply unhinged mentally. We are introduced to Spector via one of his alter egos, sheepish British museum employee Steven Grant (Isaac goes full Dick-Van-Dyke-in-“Mary Poppins”), who is soon plagued with visions of a mystery man who looks an awful lot like himself, as well as nightmarish creatures with animal heads that look like old gods.
Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab has called the depiction of Egypt in Wonder Woman 1984 “a disgrace”.The filmmaker, from Egypt himself, pointed to the scene in which Diana and Steve visit Cairo, and discussed his own take on ancient Egyptian mythology in the forthcoming Disney+ series.“In my pitch, there was a big part about Egypt, and how inauthentically it has been portrayed throughout Hollywood’s history,” he told SFX Magazine.“It’s always exotic – we call it orientalism. It dehumanises us. We are always naked, we are always sexy, we are always bad, we are always over the top.”Speaking about Wonder Woman 1984 specifically, Diab went on: “You never see Cairo.
Disney is still trying to deal with the fallout caused by their donations to politicians that are supporting the hateful “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a law passed in Florida that prohibits instruction regarding gender identity and sexual orientation. The company has offered flowery statements but still hasn’t been able to quell the backlash and reports that they’ve removed same-sex affection scenes in Pixar films.
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Oscar Isaac hosted the recent episode of Saturday Night Live, and his opening monologue is one of the best the show has ever had. The 42-year-old joins a shortlist of Latinos who have had the opportunity to host the show, and the Guatemalan/Cuban’s monologue was a tribute to Latinos in entertainment.The poised actor stood on the famous stage as he introduced himself. “My name is Oscar Isaac, but my full name is Oscar Isaac Hernandez Estrada,” he said proudly.
Dua Lipa has offered her verdict on Oscar Isaac reading fan fiction about her on Saturday Night Live. While hosting Saturday’s episode (5 March), Dune star Isaac appeared in a sketch set in a fiction writing workshop. Isaac played a janitor named Michael who seemingly reluctantly joins the class, only to launch into a lengthy romantic story about him and Lipa.
Dua Lipa has responded to an Oscar Isaac fan-fiction story about her being read out on Saturday Night Live last weekend (March 5).On the latest episode of the long-running American sketch show, actor Oscar Isaac could be seen reading out a fan-fiction story about the pop star during a skit on the show.After hearing the story read, Dua Lipa responded on Instagram.“Adds to list of things I never thought would happen in my life”, she wrote, followed by several laughing emojis.A post shared by DUA LIPA (@dualipa)In the sketch, one of the characters Isaac’s played was Michael – a school janitor with an unexpected hobby of writing stories.Michael interrupts a writing class and starts to share a story he’s been writing on, called ‘The Apogee Of Midnight.’The story is about a janitor who is alone a school at midnight before he’s interrupted by a woman who is looking for him.“My name is Dua Lipa,” the woman in the story says. “I’m a big pop star, and I’m looking for a janitor here named Mike.”You can see a video of the sketch here:Last week (March 6), it was revealed that Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Dua Lipa on a new single.Posting on Twitter, the rapper shared an image that featured photos of her and the singer on the icing of four cakes.
Oscar Isaac took to the Studio 8 H stage for his debut Global’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue over the weekend, and shared a look at his first-ever movie role, which he created when he was just a kid.
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Oscar Isaac took to the Studio 8 H stage for his debut monologue over the weekend, and shared a look at his first-ever movie role, which he created when he was just a kid.«I'm joining the marvel universe, with. You know, it's kind of a full circle moment since the first movie I was ever in was called ,» Isaac shared. «Not, which was a massive blockbuster. No, this was , which is a movie that I wrote, directed, and starred in when I was 10 years old.»«It was shot on location in my buddy Bruce Ferguson's back yard in our hometown of Miami, Florida.