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
I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.
I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home.
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.
How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.