Oscar Isaac
Tony Nominations: Oscar Isaac, Danielle Brooks, ‘Ain’t No Mo,’ ‘1776’ Among Snubs and Surprises
The 2023 Tony Awards nominations featured a number of snubs and surprises, including an unexpected six nods for Ain’t No Mo, which closed shortly before the end of 2022 despite a star-studded effort to keep it going. It seems Tony voters well remembered this fall’s productions, handing out five nods for Cost of Living, which […]
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Meet the “Special Wizard” Acting Coach Who Helped Shape Memorable Performances From Heath Ledger, Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac
There’s one thing Oscar Isaac does first whenever he receives a script he’s remotely interested in: he sends it straight to acting and voice coach Gerry Grennell. “It’s usually like, ‘I think this is interesting, I wonder what Gerry thinks’.” As Isaac explains to The Hollywood Reporter, Grennell will then usually send back detailed notes […]
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Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan Bring ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ to Broadway
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan will bring The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window to Broadway this April in a late entry for the season. The play, written by Lorraine Hansberry, will begin performances on April 25 and open on April 27, the final day for this season’s Tony Awards eligibility, at the James Earl Jones […]
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‘Three Sisters,’ Starring Greta Gerwig and Oscar Isaac, “Indefinitely Postponed” Off-Broadway
The Off-Broadway production of Three Sisters starring Oscar Isaac and Greta Gerwig has been indefinitely postponed. The production was originally meant to run as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2019-2020 season, but was delayed by the theatrical shutdown. The production had been announced as part of the East Village theater’s 2022-2023 season, but the […]
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The 22 Most Talked-About Red Carpet Looks of 2022
This was the year that live events — and by extension red carpet pageantry — came back in full force, bringing established showbiz fashionistas out of hibernation, and instantly minting new icons. The result was an explosion of creativity where the goal for entertainers was to be talked about at all costs, no matter how […]
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Oscar Isaac Tries on a New Hat: Comic Book Creator
While filming Dune in late 2019, Oscar Isaac mentioned a passion project to one of the film’s key producers — Mary Parent, vice chairman of worldwide production at Legendary Entertainment. It was not a sci-fi blockbuster — a genre Isaac has come to dominate in franchises like Star Wars and Dune — nor was it a prestige […]
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Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan to Star in Revival of ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are set to star in the second-ever New York staging of A Raisin in the Sun writer Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window. Obie winner Anne Kauffman will direct the production, which will open at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater on Feb. 23. It’s her second […]
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Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac “Synchronized in a Very Intense Way” in ‘Scenes From a Marriage’
Adapting one of Ingmar Bergman’s seminal works for American television is an ambitious and daunting task. But writer-director Hagai Levi brought a contemporary spin to his HBO limited series based on the acclaimed 1973 Swedish miniseries Scenes From a Marriage: He gender-swapped the roles, having Jessica Chastain’s Mira leave her husband, Oscar Isaac’s Jonathan. (In […]
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Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac to Star in English Adaptation of Spotify’s ‘Caso 63’
Julianne Moore and Oscar Isaac will voice star in the English adaptation of the Spotify original podcast Caso 63. Renamed Case 63, the adaptation features Moore as the psychiatrist Eliza Knight and Isaac as her patient, registered as Case 63, who claims to be a time traveler. In the original version of Caso 63, each episode of […]
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Oscar Isaac and Elvira Lind’s Mad Gene Media Signs First-Look Deal With Endeavor Content
Mad Gene Media is making moves. Oscar Isaac and Elvira Lind’s production company has signed a first-look deal with Endeavor Content that will see the married pair collaborate with the studio’s TV, film and documentary teams to develop and produce content for all platforms. At the same time, Mad Gene Media has scooped up its […]
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“You Went to Therapy for That?”: Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Oscar Isaac and the THR Drama Actor Roundtable
Oscar Isaac has just flown in from New York, where the Scenes From a Marriage and Moon Knight star was enjoying some much-deserved time off, and Succession’s Brian Cox will soon head to Miami for a documentary shoot. Loki’s Tom Hiddleston is about to go back into production, and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey’s […]
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‘Moon Knight’ Producer Grant Curtis Argues Series Stronger Sans Typical Marvel Cameos
[This story contains spoilers for Moon Knight.] Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films paved the way for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has not forgotten his roots. Feige, who helped produce the Spider-Man trilogy for then-Marvel head Avi Arad, not only hired Raimi to direct the newly-released Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of […]
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