Why Moon Knight Was Such A Huge Risk For Oscar Isaac

Why Moon Knight Was Such A Huge Risk For Oscar Isaac

In an interview, Oscar Issac implied that his Moon Knight role was the best risk he had taken. The source material supports it being a risky endeavor.

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Why Moon Knight Was Such A Huge Risk For Oscar Isaac

Oscar Isaac has suggested that the best risk of his career is his starring role in the upcoming Moon Knight Disney+ series, and he has good reason to think that. When asked about his career, Isaac admitted to having been nervous about the role, but assured people that he was enjoying the process. Moon Knight might be one of Marvel’s lesser-known properties, but the risks associated with the premise go deeper than that.

Oscar Isaac will be appearing as Marc Spector in Moon Knight, an ex-marine turned mercenary. In the comics, during a mission for Raoul Bushman, Spector sees Bushman gun down civilians in the hopes of looting a tomb they had unearthed. Spector attacks Bushman in response but is defeated and left for dead. Locals he had defended find him and take him to a statue of Khonshu, an Egyptian moon god, and he is healed and granted superpowers by the deity.

The part that makes Moon Knight a particularly risky endeavor for both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Oscar Isaac is that Marc Spector also suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID). While Marc Spector is the primary, he also exhibits multiple alters, including Steven Grant and Jake Lockley. The story at times ties his DID to the acts and will of Khonshu, suggesting that Khonshu’s own multiple aspects caused Spector’s mind to fracture. The plot often revolves around Moon Knight’s DID, with one plotline revealing that Jake Lockley has a son that the other alters are unaware of. As many people in the real world live with DID the representation can be important; however, it is a disorder that is easy to portray poorly and lead to a demonization of mental illness as with M. Night Shyamalan’s Split.

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The complexities of Moon Knight do not end there. Ethan Hawke has been cast to play the antagonist for the series, and while the exact character he will be playing has not yet been confirmed there are some theories. One likely possibility is that he will be playing Sun King, also known as Patient 86, a character who has pyrokinetic powers and believes himself to be the manifestation of the Egyptian sun god Amon Ra. This theory stems in part from an interview in which Ethan Hawke revealed that he was basing his villain portrayal on the cult leader David Koresh. Koresh was the leader of the Branch Davidians and proclaimed himself a messiah before a face-off with the FBI lead to the infamous events of Waco, Texas in 1993. As with Marc Spector’s DID, any work inspired by such events must be handled delicately and could easily spark controversies.

While Moon Knight is a risk, it is not doomed as there is precedent for similar series dealing with issues of mental illness and DID. An earlier non-MCU Marvel series, Legion, followed David Haller (Dan Stevens) as he explored his powers and their ties to his own psychosis, and the series amassed a cult following. Similarly, DC’s ongoing Doom Patrol TV show includes the character of Jane (Diane Guerrero) who lives with DID and has taken an extensive look at the roles of primaries, alters, and trauma for the character. Oscar Issac is certainly right that Moon Knight is a big risk for his career, but if they are handling the material carefully then he has every reason to be excited by it.

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