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“Moon Knight” stars Oscar Isaac (Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Moon Knight) and May Calamawy (Layla) discuss their Marvel Disney+ series in this interview with CinemaBlend's Law Sharma. They discuss their favorite memories from the set, handling dissociative identity disorder and more.
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00:00Okay, Mr. Knight.
00:01You're looking amazing.
00:02I learned from the best, sir.
00:03Okay, Mr. Knight.
00:13I love Moon Knight, so when this show came out,
00:16I was so excited to see this boy in live action.
00:19And Oscar, you play him beautifully.
00:21I was wondering, some people are talking about
00:24the fact that we may have seen a third altar already
00:26in the first four episodes.
00:27I was wondering if you can confirm
00:30that you played that already,
00:31or is that still to come in episode five and six?
00:34Well, I can confirm that there's definitely
00:38things about their existence, Stephen Mark,
00:41that they are not aware of yet.
00:44And that things are pointing towards the fact
00:46that it's not just the two of them in there.
00:57After four episodes, it seems like I have more questions
00:59about Layla than I did at the start.
01:01I was wondering what questions about her
01:03and her motivations did you need answered
01:05before you started to play the role?
01:07I don't know.
01:08It's interesting because we didn't...
01:10She's not a character who has existed in the MCU.
01:14We just sort of like developed her on the spot
01:16and it all became...
01:18It was important to have her obviously relate to Mark
01:24and Stephen and how that manifests,
01:27but also have her be on a journey of her own,
01:31you know, of self-discovery as well.
01:34And as we went along, those answers...
01:38Answers or questions I didn't even know I had
01:40were getting answered and it just helped
01:43with where we were going.
01:45I find like I don't know how to be too, like,
01:48intellectual about the work
01:50and somehow it just comes out.
01:53Just so you know, I'm not here to help you.
01:56I'm here for me and for everyone else
01:58who will die if Haro succeeds.
02:01Copy that.
02:02Whenever you black out,
02:03I love the story technique,
02:04but we miss out on like a cool action scene.
02:07I wonder, is there a blackout scene
02:09that you wish you had filmed
02:10or the audience could see?
02:11No, I think...
02:13I think...
02:14Yeah, sure.
02:15Like, we've seen a lot of cool action scenes,
02:18you know,
02:19but we haven't really experienced
02:21what it feels like
02:23to have disassociative identity disorder.
02:25Like, that's way...
02:27That's a much more new thing, you know?
02:30Like, yeah,
02:31there's tons of great fight choreographers out there.
02:33There's tons of interesting ways
02:34to shoot fight scenes
02:35and, you know,
02:36there is something that's visceral
02:37and exciting about that.
02:38You know, of course,
02:39there's room for that.
02:40But I thought this very clever thing
02:43that Muhammad developed in the script,
02:47it just...
02:49It's so visceral.
02:50You know, like the feeling of it
02:51is just such a different thing
02:53that I think it's...
02:54I think it was a really smart way of doing it.
02:56It was obviously a good way
02:58of being able to show violence
03:02without it really going to that place,
03:04you know,
03:04to be able to go darker
03:05without, you know,
03:08having to cut corners
03:10with all that different stuff,
03:11you know?
03:11So I don't know.
03:12I found it to be just really smart.
03:15All right.
03:16Go ahead.
03:16You're in.
03:21Cheers.
03:21Thanks a lot.
03:23All right.
03:23With you two,
03:24your co-stars,
03:25what's your favorite memory
03:26of each other on set?
03:28I was wondering
03:28if you could share that with us.
03:29I feel like we were always
03:30just having fun, right?
03:32Oscar.
03:35I liked when we were all
03:36inside the tomb
03:37and, like,
03:38you know,
03:39inside the Pyramid of Giza
03:40and it's towards the end.
03:43You'll see.
03:43It's like we were shooting
03:44the big finale.
03:46I guess I just revealed
03:47that it happens
03:47at the end of the movie.
03:48But, you know,
03:50it's kind of,
03:50come on,
03:50you can kind of feel
03:51that it's going towards there.
03:52And we just, like,
03:54you, me, and Eath
03:55just started doing
03:56a little dance
03:56and I was in
03:57my Moon Knight costume
03:59and that was really fun.
04:00That was really fun.
04:01I picked Oscar's
04:02butt at ping pong
04:05all the time.
04:07Moon Knight is a show
04:09that I'm digging so much.
04:10I love it.
04:11It's my favorite
04:11Disney MCU show so far.
04:14And Oscar,
04:15from one ethnically
04:16ambiguous weirdo
04:17to another,
04:18you inspire me
04:19all the time.
04:20It was an honor
04:20to speak with you both today.
04:22Thanks, brother.
04:23I'll carry our banner.
04:24Yes, let's do it.
04:26I like that Mr. Knight's
04:27eyes lit up back there.
04:28Cool, right?
04:29Yeah, so I have the whole
04:31get-up now, so.
04:32You are set for Halloween.
04:34I am.
04:35I am.
04:36It must be very difficult.
04:38The voice is...
04:39in your head.
04:43There's chaos in you.
04:47Embrace it.
04:48I am.
04:49No, no, no.
04:51I am.
04:51I am.
04:51No, no, no.
04:52I am.
04:52I am.
04:54No, no, no.
04:55You
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