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betweenthescarletmoon · 2 years

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The Hollywood Reporter Roundtable Analysis

It was very intriguing for me how Oscar carefully delved into the question he was given by the host Lacey in 38:45, but in a slight surface-level way. Some information he's given in other times filled up a lot of the blanks he left behind in his answer.

First let's go over what they said.

Lacey: Your co-star from Scenes From a Marriage, Jessica Chastain, talked about [how] she had to go to a place that was so dark, and she's not sure she can sort of ever go to these places as an actress again. And I'm curious if you've felt any of that and how your individual, personal sort of boundaries shift with time, with experience, with success.

Oscar: You know, before I'd be like: "what limb do I have to take—cut off to make this scene three percent better?" But I think that it's about inspiration. [...] The whole reason process exists is to inspire, right? And sometimes you don't need a wild process to be inspired by something. Sometimes the words themselves will do it, um, sometimes the character is enough. Sometimes the situation is so harrowing that that's enough to inspire a whole history of a character. And sometimes you gotta: "what did he eat for breakfast? why did he do this?" In order to try, y'know, to inspire some imagination and some sense of truth, right, or some sense of—some emotional, interesting thing.

Oscar [continued]: But boundaries, I think, are becoming more important to me now. And then you have kids. Time is the most valuable commodity. And I think with Scenes From a Marriage, the scenes themselves—that [was what was] so harrowing, not so much the character. But also it mirrored a lot of things in my own life. [...] I'd be reading a bed time story to the young actress that's a five-year-old with a little bunny lamp, and then go home, arrive just in time to sit in the bed with the same exact bunny lamp, somehow, and read a story to my five-year-old— You know, it just starts to fuck with your head, because we're just a human being, so that's a weird situation! [...]

Oscar [yeah he makes up for not talking for almost the entire hour with this question]: After a while, I think it was just all the nature of it, you know? It was right in the height of the pandemic. It was in this factory in the Bronx that had been turned into a studio. It was only like sixty people. And these were very long—almost every shot was like a thirty-minute take. It felt like a weird hybrid between theatre and TV and film. And with someone that I've known for twenty years as well—so all those things created a very uncanny situation, that I think, going back, I probably would have been a little more mindful about. Like, y'know, a little clearer boundaries— And the truth is, even if it wouldn't have been quite as real or good (you know?), I'm okay with—I'm getting better with that idea that—I don't have to cut off a limb just to make it slightly better. It's okay. It's okay.

First off, i just wanna gush over his speech patterns bc I am that all over the place when I try to communicate my thoughts (i actually skipped a lot of his endearing stutters, pet phrases, and filler things he said to grasp at his next message). It's so relatable especially in a group full of people (not to mention legendary actors), because even a guy who looks as confident as him can still sound like he's making a discovery as he speaks and takes you along.

Now on to my analysis of what he said because at first I didn't completely get what he meant!

I have a feeling he's very perfectionistic, and from how he speaks about work in other articles as well as here, he also seems a workaholic. I believe in here he's trying to say that there should be different levels of immersion and hard work to connect with or explore the character instead of always bringing his all and beyond to the job.

Also, scenes from a marriage was as traumatic an experience to film as it was for us to watch (his words after 1:56 on this vid), and Jessica admitted to crying every day for four months during filming. It was a very intimate and emotionally intense series to film especially with such a close friend from Juilliard. So i believe both Oscar and Jessica gave everything they had to make this already overwhelming series feel as real and painful as possible. And since it's a hard setting to feel far removed from (both are married, have kids, have a sex life, could be facing divorce in the future bc of its high rates), it must have hit them even harder. I believe it's not truly an experience to watch sfam without you screaming at, insulting, or feeling immensely sorrowful for the characters because THAT is the reaction they fought hard to get from you. That pain, that anxiety, that tension, that rage, that pity, every emotion you felt that you could barely cope with? All crafted thanks to their extremely immersive and talented performance coupled with their flawless chemistry. But if it feels real to us, through a screen…for them it must've felt even more so. Unbearably more so.

So i believe these experiences, as well as having a family to take care of, and other priorities like time and mental health, have recently made it more important for him to strike a balance in his life. To stop obsessing over creating the perfect role or immersion, or to use these roles to cope with and process real life struggles (as he's admitted to do). I think it's important for him to now connect with real life more, like being a father and a husband, as well as just a human being. Not just an actor or a character.

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Important Excerpts from Articles about escapism and coping through acting (in case you don't feel like reading the last references):

New York Times: After His Mother’s Death, Oscar Isaac Turns to Shakespeare for Solace

“I didn’t know how to process any of this, but this [performing as Hamlet] I knew how to do.”

But [Hamlet is] also a tragedy that asks Mr. Isaac to relive the anguished death of a parent at every performance. In Sam Gold’s rowdy, deconstructionist staging, every time Mr. Isaac mud-wrestles, or lofts a prop skull or performs a mad scene in just a T-shirt and briefs, he seems to be working through his own loss, transforming raw private grief into riveting public performance.

As Mr. Isaac explained, performing has always helped him come to terms with his emotions. “This is how I’m able to function,” he said. “The only way that I’m really able to process stuff is through reflecting it.”

Esquire: The Dream of Oscar Isaac

To be in conversation with Oscar Isaac, who is forty-three, is to talk with someone who has thought deeply about the course of his life—not out of narcissism or vanity but by necessity, a desperate desire to find what feels like solid ground. For him. For his family. For us, whom his art reaches. He has worked to wrest meaning out of his confusions and fears. His effort is ongoing, and his audiences have the privilege of following him in his relentless and shattering performances, in search of the firm footing he lost every time another of his dreams was interrupted.

If superheroes have their capes and their flamethrowers to help them survive, we ordinary humans have our imagination. It has been our shelter for millennia, a way to express and to understand what feels incomprehensible. When it all gets too heavy, sometimes the fragile rope tethering us to solid ground snaps clean, and there is often no refuge sturdy enough to put us back together except in the intimate, private shelter of our minds.

NPR: For Oscar Isaac, life — and acting — is all about impermanence

“It [acting] is a funnel, and it's always been where I go to understand things about life and things that are happening to me. But it's one thing to grieve as a character and one thing to grieve as an actual person. And I think that there's still quite a lot of unresolved stuff there.”

I hope you enjoyed this post! I had to organize all my thoughts in one place because it's so fascinating and complex

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one-time-i-dreamt · 1 year

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Pedro Pascal was mouse who was dancing on the back of a rat. They got trapped in a container for takeout Chinese. The mouse’s name was inextricably Oscar Isaac.

#dream #pedro pascal #mouse #dancing #rat #takeout food #chinese food #oscar isaac

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nowritingonthewall · 5 months

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#oscar isaac #pretty sure I am having a fever dream but here you go #som

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6ngelface · 2 months

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girlhood is going YUM out loud whenever you see an edit of your babygirl 🩷🎀

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starofhisheart · 11 months

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Old man yaoi got me kicking my feet and twirling my hair

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#these r the men that haunt my dreams #the men that could break my back and rearrange my insides #only them #old man yaoi #middle aged actors #colin firth #harry hart #billy butcher #karl urban #mads mikkelsen #hannibal #henry cavill #oscar isaac #pedro pascal #joel miller #con o'neil #taika waititi

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ivystoryweaver · 11 months

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I am really living for Oscar's spring 2023 / mid-90's Scully suit era

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#power suits #wear the rainbow #oscar's out there living the dream #being my 90s icon #like the babe he is #the x-files #gillian anderson #scully #oscar isaac hernandez estrada #Oscar isaac #dana scully

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pimosworld · 8 months

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I would pay to sit somewhere else

#eiffel tower #dream it #iwantobeinbetween #pedro pascal #Oscar Isaac #pedro pascal characters #oscar isaac characters #triple frontier #moon knight #francisco catfish morales #santiago garcia reader

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pedropcl · 2 years

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OSCAR ISAAC Marvel Studios: Assembled | The Making of Moon Knight

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salome-c · 1 year

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Ok, where can I send my CV?

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betweenthescarletmoon · 2 years

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Maaza Mengiste has written the most wonderful, gorgeous, treasured, poetic, profound article I have ever read, and i am so glad she spilled all those words to tell us an actually riveting and fascinating (and even subtly heartbreaking) story of Oscar Isaac's life. I want to read everything she has written.

Everyone check out her Esquire article about Oscar, it feels like a dream from how all-encompassing and immersive it is.

I'm gonna talk about it a bit so read it before getting spoiled by me.

I feel like this article, unlike literally any other piece of content or media about him, gave me such meaty psychological information, about how he thinks, about how his experiences shaped him, about what he believes, about how he copes. It was a story interweaved with so much care, so much tenderness as it was putting his life out for all the world to see. I can tell that a man as charming, as funny even during his grieving process (like during the Hamlet theatre set in between rehearsals), perhaps as proud and private as Óscar, felt comfortable for the first time to dig deep into things that he had all the right to keep to his chest.

Of course, there's another article (and perhaps a few more) that mentions some of these important parts of his life, but there's something about Maaza, who absorbs these stories. She analyzes them. She explores his psyche behind his words, and shows what she finds to us. It's so entrancing.

It clarifies the mystery to me, about how he depends on his characters, on these really intense months with new co-stars or co-theatre-actors, to truly feel and process all the wonders and tragedies that life throws at us. It explains why he plays characters with so many struggles (many of them struggles of loss, particularly the loss of parents, or of childhood trauma), and why he says that each of them represents a part of him that lies dormant, waiting to be triggered or awoken by a different situation in life. It explains why he plays Hamlet, and Jonathan Levy, and Llewyn Davis, and Marc Spector, who all hold so much resentment yet so much longing towards their parents, these parents who either are in the process of slipping from these men's hands, or have died already.

The detachment, the outsider-complex, the mixed and complex identity, the chaotic and unstable life of moving and moving and moving, the trauma of death and new life happening at the very same time, all feed this need to bury oneself into someone else, just for a while. To get to know this other someone, to discover all their different intonations and emotions and behavior and dreams and fears. To connect with this someone else that is inhabiting your body, in an indirect, third-person way. Disconnecting from your soul to watch yourself from the outside. Learning about who you are (or could be) from a safe place.

I do this in writing all the time. It's truly a normal thing, to wish to get lost in something, in art, to see yourself through that because you can't understand your identity on your own. It may not be the healthiest coping mechanism in the world, but it's a human response. To twist the chaos of your life, the confusion of your pain, into a story. Into a character. Even into a celebrity. (Am i doing that right now? Perhaps.)

I just hope to keep analyzing that and arriving at a safer, healthier place myself. To resolve things internally, and grieve, instead of choosing to escape. To show who i am to safe loved ones instead of recurring to comedy as an armor. To try to explore myself, rather than explore someone else. I hope we all learn to do this. I hope óscar does too. He deserves to find himself.

#oscar isaac #maaza mengiste #award-winning ethiopian-american female writer #shes the goat I can feel it #esquire #the dream of oscar isaac #i just realized i described it as a dream BECAUSE it was exactly how mengiste intended it #oscar isaac hernandez estrada #moon knight #oscar isaac meta #right? is that a thing?#i say it's a thing #i went haaaard here bc this is my second read and i just KNOW I'll return to this masterpiece for a long time #to understand life and see how pain operates in a different way. it's fascinating. it also helps me see where I could grow #and i do not wish to patronize or say anything we do is Wrong exactly. just that there could be something better. kinder to our heart & mind #we deserve to fill that emptiness in our chests rather than run away from it #marc spector #steven grant #oscar isaac analysis #meta #i am exposing myself out as a true stan of this guy and it's a little terrifying but what can we do #ive never felt this way about an actor before. i guess it's because he always bared his soul on every role. and perhaps ONLY in the role #and not irl

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bucky-barnes-diaries · 2 years

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Imagine being on a FaceTime call with your boyfriend Oscar and he loves listening to you talk about your day and he’s just all heart eyes

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#all I can do is hope and dream at this point 🥺#look at him 😍#I want him to look at me like that!#I would honestly die #oscar isaac #oscar isaac fandom #oscar isaac x reader #oscar isaac hernandez estrada #oscar isaac fluff #moon knight #steven grant #marc spector

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one-time-i-dreamt · 10 months

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A friend of mine just died and I looked out the window to see Oscar Isaac (rly handsome with the beard and hair) having a smoke break with my mother.

#dream #text #oscar isaac #death tw #friend #death mention #smoking #mother #queueueueueueueueueueueueueue

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traveller-of-the-knight · 9 months

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A very normal dream I had about Oscar Isaac

Last night I dreamt that the "actor who played Steven" fucking died and the "actor who played Marc" did an interview about grief. (I swear it gets more interesting and less depressing)

And my brain was constantly going: Wait, what? Wait... WHAT?! WAIT WAIT WAIT WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!

And then I knew I was dreaming but I kept going "This dream makes zero sense, like what the fuck is this? I'll just wait for the next dream's turn. Fuck now I'm invested"

Details I can remember:

He died drowning while playing volleyball with water guns. (Idk don't even ask)

Then "Marc's actor" went to an alternate universes where "Steven's actor" was still alive.

Steven was a renaissance painter, dressed in 1950 french fashion siping expensive wine out of a glass while explaining his art.

Marc was a mess™

Then turns out I somehow killed Steven and I was actually some short of alien blob shape shifting creature that had to fight robots Neon Genesis Evangelion style and then I got married.

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carebooks · 2 years

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i think i made a connection guys…

#neil gaiman #sandman #the sandman #moon knight #khonshu #oscar isaac #marc spector #morpheus #dream of the endless #dream of a thousand cats #steven grant #jake lockley

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sosa2imagines · 3 months

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Oscar speaking Spanish 😍🤤🔥❤️

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#oscar issac imagine #oscar isaac fluff #oscar isaac #oscar isaac speaking spanish #i'm dead #this man is a wet dream #if you know you know #i love him #i love Oscar Isaac #instagram #oscar isaac characters #Instagram

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