For lots of important, smart, intellectual reasons.
Our Past
I first chanced upon Oscar when watching The Nativity Story. Naturally the young actress playing Mary (Keisha Castle-Hughes) got a lot of attention when this movie came out in 2006, but my eyes were inexorably drawn to the mud-hut-headpiece wearing, sexually-frustrated Joseph. Sorry, Baby Jesus, that I just called your step-dad sexually frustrated, but I’m just keeping it 100.
Leave Room for the Holy Spirit, guy source
He played Joseph with this sweet vulnerability that was ROMANCE NOVEL LEVEL hot. And then he did about a dozen interviews with faith-based journalists and had to deftly manage his way through “Did you have a relationship with Jesus before you took this role?” questions which made me CACKLE. Excellent deflection, Oscar.
So then I started noticing him here and there as he got more high profile work. Body of Lies, Sucker Punch, Drive, and even The Bourne Legacy which my dad made me watch. Then one day I saw him, and I realized something. He’s my Froi.
[Sidenote: Don’t know Froi? He’s one of the protagonists in The Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta, which is my most favorite book series ever, and OSCAR ISAAC HAS FROI’S FACE. He is exactly how I pictured Froi. This is disconcerting to say the least, but also really awesome because normally I have trouble pinning actor to fictional character, and this was effortless and came to me in a dream and I should just write a vampire trilogy about how Oscar is Froi and Froi is Oscar and they morph in my memory into one being. ANYWAY. (The Lumatere Chronicles is awesome; go read it).]
Right after I made this realization, the trailer for Inside Llewyn Davis came out, which was one of my favorite movies that year, starring some of my favorite actors, which I felt qualified to say now included Oscar Isaac.
Our Present
Since I began evangelizing Oscar circa Llewyn Davis, he’s gotten twisty-good-guy-hot in The Two Faces of January, totally killed the leading man thing with Jessica Chastain in A Most Violent Year, made me confused about the sensual undertones of the word Yonkers in Show Me a Hero, and crushed this beard in Ex Machina.
Ex Machina is killer, even without this beard. source
Our Future
And now, Oscar is everywhere … including really close to me at Comic-Con … promoting Star Wars. Or rather, he isn’t. If you haven’t seen him with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley on the interview circuit, it’s because he’s too busy being one of the busiest working actors out there right now. Yep, our buddy Poe is filming so he doesn’t have to do as much Star Wars press. He’s on FIYAH.
Thinking about putting this on my wall in my bedroom. Blurt won’t mind. source
SO, when I say that we need to talk about Oscar Isaac, we need to talk about him because he’s an insanely talented actor. “You will never do anything as hard as staring someone in the eye and telling the truth.” Nice metaphor for acting, there.
He’s a crazy assed good singer and guitar player, and he makes me want to cry when his head is shaved.
We have to talk about him because he’s great at interviews even though I kind of get the idea that he super hates them.
We need to talk about him because he’s already a huge star, and he will be winning major awards very soon.
Can’t wait to see what Poe gets up to. I can’t wait to see everything that Oscar does. I love him!
#FangirlOut
