Oscar Isaac trained at Juilliard and broke through in Inside Llewyn Davis, performing all the music live on camera, playing a folk singer whose talent is real and whose personality prevents anything coming of it.
Ex Machina gave him Nathan, a tech billionaire whose menace is entirely social, and the dance sequence is the strangest and best thing in the film.
He then took Star Wars and Dune, and Moon Knight gave him a dissociative identity performance across a television series.
He is Guatemalan-American, works regularly on stage including Hamlet, and has a long friendship with Isaac Hempstead Wright’s generation of the Star Wars cast.
Ethan HawkeMoon Knight (2022) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Four episodes of the most distinctive television the franchise made, then two conventional ones. The asylum episode is the high point and the series never recovers from resolving…
Oscar IsaacSchrader's 2021 gambling drama. Oscar Isaac as an Abu Ghraib veteran on the poker circuit.
Adam DriverStar Wars: The Last Jedi is the middle entry of the Disney-era sequel trilogy. Rian Johnson wrote and directed.
Alicia VikanderGarland built Ex Machina to be precise, controlled, and unsettling in a register that keeps the audience at analytical distance instead of pulling them into emotional investment. The performances are strong.
Oscar IsaacFrom inside the book, these are the right criticisms. The short version: Villeneuve made two visually extraordinary films that get many of the big things right and a handful of things badly wrong.
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