Moon Knight Interview Special ft. Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke, May Calamawy and Mohamed Diab

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Here's a podcast that can tell the difference between its waking life... and dreams. Yes, folks, as Moon Knight finally makes his dramatic debut on Disney+, this special edition of the Empire Podcast brings you interviews with the folks who brought the MCU's latest hero to life. First, Chris Hewitt welcomes the show's stars -- Moon Knight/Marc Spector/Steven Grant himself, Oscar Isaac; Ethan Hawke, who plays the villainous Arthur Harrow; and May Calamawy, aka Leila -- to our London studio for an interview that is filled with bonkersness, and then he sits down over Zoom with the show's lead director, Mohamed Diab. This isn't a spoiler special, and the interviews are largely spoiler-free, but they do engage with events that take place in the first episode in particular, so perhaps listen to this after you've seen that. Otherwise, there's nothing to fear here but Chris' impression of Steven Grant. Enjoy...?

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Eward and welcome to a very special interview podcast, Tined, I hope,
0:21.2	to coincide exactly or almost exactly with the launch of Moon Knight on Disney+.
0:27.9	As you probably already know, if you're listening to this, Moon Knight is the latest Marvel
0:32.3	Cinematic Universe series to hit Disney+.
0:35.5	But unlike its live-action predecessors, Wandafission, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki
0:40.8	and Hawkeye, this doesn't expand the story of a beloved character or characters, but
0:46.0	rather introduces us to a brand new hero in the shape of the eponymous Moon Knight, an
0:52.0	unstoppable vessel of vengeance that is the perfect blend between hard-bitten American
0:57.8	mercenary Mark Spector, played by Oscar Isaac, and the entity that has, for one of a better
1:03.5	word, possessed him, the cold-blooded Egyptian god of the Moon, Conshu, voiced by F. Murray
1:10.4	Abraham.
1:11.4	There's just one small problem, Mark has DID, disassociative identity disorder, and he
1:17.4	shares his body with Stephen Grant, a timid and well-meaning British museum gift shop worker,
1:23.2	who is a, also played by Oscar Isaac, and b, in way over his head, as things start getting
1:29.4	very, very, freaky indeed.
1:32.1	It's a less-and-no-one character in the grand scheme of things, but that has allowed
1:35.9	the show's creator and head writer, Jeremy Slater, and director is Bahama Diab, and Justin
1:41.2	Benson and Aaron Morehead to take some pretty big creative swings.
1:46.1	As you may have seen, because if you're listening to this, then the chances are that you've
1:49.6	seen the first episode of Moonlight, which is now live on Disney Plus, and you will have
1:53.4	been introduced to things like Stephen's strange, dislocated world, the way he loses time
1:59.6	and enters a fugue state, and the beginnings of relationships with three mysterious characters
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