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Something About Making ‘Moon Knight’ Reignited Oscar Isaac’s Creative Flame and It Wasn’t Acting · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It's an open secret
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Speaker 1: inside Hollywood. And oftentimes when you see a lead actor
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Speaker 1: in a project also listed as an executive producer, their
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Speaker 1: actual involvement in the producing of it is limited and
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Speaker 1: it's a title negotiated for a cloud or money. But
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Speaker 1: Oscar Isaac's executive producers status on his Marvel show Moonnight
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Speaker 1: is anything but. In fact, Marvel offered him the title
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Speaker 1: when the show is near complete after witnessing firsthand. His
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Speaker 1: commitment to the project and all the extra work ended
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Speaker 1: up reigniting his creative fire as well. Isaac tells Indie Wire,
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Speaker 1: I watched every edit, gave notes, was part of the
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Speaker 1: casting and the music process, the breakdown of the script,
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Speaker 1: the dialogue. It happened organically in a way. It was
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Speaker 1: a compulsion. I'd say I felt compelled to do it
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Speaker 1: because the bad version could have been so bad. I
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Speaker 1: know it. It became a personal expression of my aesthetic.
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Speaker 1: Having more ownership of the creative gave me more energy back.
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Speaker 1: I have not felt like I've worked since. Season one
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Speaker 1: of Moonnight is streaming on Disney Plus from Hollywood. Of
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