I have to admit that I had lost hope, but the trailer for ‘Moon Knight’ that we saw a few days ago, with its peculiar tonal bet that seems to embrace the canons of horror and its fantastic main cast, has managed to reawaken my interest in a Marvel Cinematic Universe that didn’t seem to have much to offer me today.
comic book pressure
While we wait for its premiere on Disney +, set for March 30, the series team is already immersed in its promotional campaign; including an Ethan Hawke who will debut in superhero productions putting himself in the shoes of the role’s villain Arthur Harrow. But what has kept the actor from capes, masks and superpowers for so long?
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hawke has shed some light on this, clarifying that the last boost he needed to make the leap to comic adaptations was the presence of Oscar Isaac in the project.
“The world of comics meant a lot to me when I was young… I was always a bit apprehensive. There’s a certain kind of actor that stands out in that universe, and I’m not sure I’m one of them. But then Oscar asked me , and I have a lot of respect for him. I knew that if I got into the project, I was going to give it my all, and it’s fun to do any genre with people who give it their all. Mohamed Diab is a very special director, I love his films. So everything revolved around the project, it wasn’t an intellectual decision at all, it was like, ‘Oh, let’s do something cool with these guys.
In addition, the actor has spoken about the benefits of working with original material that is less rooted among the general public, such as ‘Moon Knight’, coming to compare giving life to a first-rate superhero with playing Hamlet himself.
“The more I learned about Moon Knight, the more excited I got, because it’s so much better than trying to create something that the audience is already familiar with. preconceived about what they want. It’s like playing Hamlet. Ninety percent of people have an opinion about how Hamlet should be played. I love doing Shakespeare in front of students because they’re so familiar. They don’t see that Patrick Stewart did it so much better than you. They just accept how you’ve done it. And with ‘Moon Knight’ we can create a world and a character.”
The truth is that his words are much more consistent than it might seem at first glance.