Oscar Isaac stars as Moon Knight – Marvel’s first superhero with mental health issues

Isaac plays a supernatural vigilante, suffering from random blackouts, constant voices in his head and trouble distinguishing between his waking and dream lives

While Disney+ Marvel shows such as Loki and Hawkeye were continuations of personalities from feature films, Moon Knight is completely new to the screen

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Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight in the new Marvel and Disney+ series of the same name. Photo: courtesy of Marvel Studios

Published: 4:15pm, 15 Mar 2022

Many A-list actors, from Robert Downey Jr. to Chris Evans to the late Chadwick Boseman, broke into the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe by playing an iconic character. In Moon Knight, Oscar Isaac embodies a whole bunch of them.

The new six-episode Disney+ series (streaming weekly, starting March 30) introduces Isaac as a supernatural vigilante – and two-fisted avatar of the Egyptian deity Khonshu – with several other sides surfacing due to dissociative identity disorder.

There’s American mercenary Marc Spector, British gift-shop employee Steven Grant, caped crusader Moon Knight and the mysterious, suit-clad Mr. Knight. And those are just the personalities we can mention before the show starts.

Isaac loves every one of them, although he allows that it all sounds bonkers. “He’s this Jewish Chicago guy who is enslaved to an Egyptian god. And one of his alters is English,” Isaac says. “It’s already like, ‘What?!’”

Isaac in a still from Moon Knight. Photo: Disney+

While the Disney+ Marvel shows – including WandaVision, Loki and Hawkeye – until now have been continuations of personalities from the feature films, Moon Knight adds a completely new character to the MCU.

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