Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac is a Guatemalan American actor and musician. He is known for his lead film roles in the comedy-drama Inside Llewyn Davis, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, the crime drama A Most Violent Yearand the science fiction thriller Ex Machina. In 2006 he portrayed Joseph, husband of Mary, in The Nativity Story. He also portrayed José Ramos-Horta, former president of East Timor, in the Australian film Balibo for which he won the AACTA Award for...
NationalityGuatemalan
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth9 March 1979
CountryGuatemala
Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.
Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason.
Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.
In the 1960s, there was a forward way of speaking and inflection.
If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.