Where do we know the protagonist of “Moon Knight” from? Seven fictions with Oscar Isaac

Moon Knight released its first episode and its protagonist, Oscar Isaac, who plays this particular superhero, is already accumulating praise about his great performance.

This is not the first role in which this Guatemalan actor, who has already had a 15-year career, stands out. His full name is Oscar Isaac Hernández Estrada (“when I started in Hollywood they chose the white half”, he ironized in his SNL monologue, in early March) and has to his credit a Golden Globes nomination for his performance in Inside Llewyn Davis, a film by brothers Ethan and Joel Coen.

Oscar's parents, a Cuban and a Guatemalan woman, settled in Miami when he was just five months old, and that's why he grew up in the United States. Isaac graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School of Music and Performing Arts in New York, in 2005. He was a guitarist for the Blinking Underdogs until he decided to focus on acting. This is a journey through the most outstanding fictions of this 43-year-old artist.

Dune - HBO Max

In this film by Denis Villeneuve, Isaac plays Duke Leto Atreides, a central character in the plot since he is the father of the protagonist, Paul Atreides played by Timothée Chalamet. The film won several Oscar nominations and won in technical areas. The film, which Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Stellan Skarsgård also worked on, will feature a second installment.

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi and Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker - Disney+

The dream of many actors is to participate in instant classics such as this George Lucas franchise, and Oscar Isaac was able to fulfill it. In both films, he played the character Poe Dameron, who had already made his first appearance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The most striking thing is that he was about to reject the role of the X-wing pilot: producers J.J. Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy told him that his character laid the foundation for the film “and then he dies spectacularly.” He didn't like it: “It's a bit annoying, because I have the feeling that I've done that many times, I prepare everything for the protagonist and then die spectacularly.” But they obviously convinced him.

Triple frontera - Netflix

This 2019 film was a success as soon as it was released. Isaac plays Santiago in the company of a great cast that included Ben Affleck, Adria Arjona, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, and Charlie Hunnam. The film told the story of five former military veterans of special forces who met to rob a drug trafficker on an unidentified triple border in South America, which put their loyalties to each other and also their abilities to the test.

Show Me a Hero - HBO Max

The 2015 HBO miniseries starred alongside Winona Ryder, Alfred Molina, Jon Bernthal, Catherine Keener and Carla Quevedo. This story, based on real events, was based on Lisa Belkin's book. Isaac plays the mayor of Yonkers Nick Wasicsko, who must abide by a court order and build housing housing for low-income people in a middle-class area of the city. Racial conflict soon appears and adds up as a central theme.

Ex Machina - Prime Video

In this 2015 English science fiction film Isaac plays Nathan Bateman. Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson accompany him to tell the story of Caleb (Gleeson), a programmer who receives an award from the president of the company he works for, Nathan (Isaac), to take a Turing test on an artificial intelligence android. Ex Machina received an Oscar in the Best Visual Effects category.

Secretos de un matrimonio - HBO Max

One of Isaac's greatest performances and one of the most recent, which reunited him with Jessica Chastain, his colleague at Juilliard school and recent winner of the Oscar for Best Actress. In this series Oscar takes on the shoes of Jonathan Levy, who has been with Mira Phillips for several years in a marriage where love and desire compensate for a coexistence affected by lack of communication. Scenes from a Marriage is an adaptation of the 1973 Swedish miniseries directed by Ingmar Bergman.

El año más violento (A Most Violent Year, 2014)

Another film by Isaac and Chastain. The Guatemalan is Abel Morales (role that Javier Bardem was initially going to play), the director of a fleet that transports fuels. His company is at the center of a corruption investigation by a prosecutor played by David Oyelowo. Set in the 80s, this production gave Chastain a memorable character: Anna Morales, Abel's wife.

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