“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 look amazing.
00:02I learned from the best, sir.
00:03Okay, Mr. Knight.
00:08It's time.
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.
00:28I 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,
00:41Mark, that 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.
00:49After 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 she's not a character
01:11who has existed in the MCU.
01:14We just sort of developed her on the spot,
01:16and it was important to have her, obviously,
01:23relate to Mark and Stephen and how that manifests,
01:27but also have her be on a journey of her own,
01:32of self-discovery as well.
01:35As we went along, those questions I didn't even know I had
01:40were getting answered,
01:41and it just helped with where we were going.
01:44I find I don't know how to be too intellectual 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 would die if Haro succeeds.
02:01Copy that.
02:02Whenever you black out, I love the story technique,
02:04but we miss out on a cool action scene.
02:07I wonder, is there a blackout scene that you wish
02:09you had filmed or the audience could see?
02:12No, I think, yeah, sure.
02:16We've seen a lot of cool action scenes,
02:19but we haven't really experienced what it feels like
02:23to have dissociative identity disorder.
02:25Like, that's a much more new thing.
02:31There's tons of great fight choreographers out there.
02:33There's tons of interesting ways to shoot fight scenes,
02:35and there is something that's visceral and exciting about that.
02:39Of course, there's room for that,
02:40but I thought this very clever thing
02:43that Mohamed developed in the script,
02:48it just, it's so visceral.
02:50You know, like the feeling of it is,
02:52it's just such a different thing
02:53that I think it was a really smart way of doing it.
02:56It was obviously a good way of being able to show violence
03:02without it really going to that place.
03:04You know, to be able to go darker
03:05without having to cut corners
03:10with all that different stuff, you know?
03:11So I don't know, I found it to be just really smart.
03:15All right, go ahead, you're in.
03:21Cheers, thanks a lot.
03:23All right.
03:23With you two, your co-stars,
03:25what's your favorite memory of each other on set?
03:28I was wondering if you could share that with us.
03:29I feel like we were always just having fun, right, Oscar?
03:33I liked when we were all inside the tomb
03:36and like, you know, inside the Pyramid of Giza
03:39and it's towards the end, you'll see.
03:42It's like we were shooting the big finale.
03:45I guess I just revealed that it happens at the Pyramid of Giza.
03:47But, you know, it's kind of, come on,
03:49you can kind of feel that it's going towards there.
03:51And we just like, you, me, and Heath
03:54just started doing a little dancing.
03:56I was in my Moon Knight costume
03:58and that was really fun, that was really fun.
04:00Moon Knight is a show that I'm digging so much.
04:03I love it.
04:04It's my favorite Disney MCU show so far.
04:07And Oscar, from one ethnically ambiguous weirdo to another,
04:11you inspire me all the time.
04:13It was an honor to speak with you both today.
04:16Thanks, brother.
04:16I'll carry our banner.
04:18Yes, let's do it.
04:19I like that Mr. Knight's eyes lit up back there.
04:22Cool, right?
04:22Yeah, so I have the whole thing lit up.
04:24That's crazy.
04:24I have the whole thing lit up.
04:25I'm like, oh my god, that's so cool.
04:26I'm like, oh my god, that's so cool.
04:28Cool, right?
04:29Yeah, so I have the whole get up now.
04:32You are set for Halloween.
04:34I am, I am.
04:36That must be very difficult.
04:38The voices in your head.
04:44There's chaos in you.
04:47Embrace it.