Actor Oscar Isaac has revealed the British comedians whose accents he drew on when he was working on his latest character in Moon Knight.

Isaac plays Steven Grant, a gift shop employee who has Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) but does not realise it yet.

He told NME: "“I thought, ‘What’s an energy that I haven’t seen in the MCU before? Like, what if someone asked Peter Sellers to be in a Marvel movie,” Isaac recalls, before name-checking an even more surprising figure from the British comedy world. “And then I thought of Karl Pilkington,” he adds. “I was watching a lot of An Idiot Abroad, not so much for the accent, but for the comedy of it: like, you often don’t know if he knows he’s being funny. And there’s something a little bit naturally introverted about him, which I really liked a lot.”

At this point, Isaac decided to make the character English, but also Jewish. Given that Brits in Hollywood projects are too often played as either comedy cockneys or old-fashioned stiff upper lip types, this was a smart idea. “So I also listened to Russell Kane, the comedian, because he comes from [Enfield],” Isaac continues. “And I put in a bit of Russell Brand, even though he’s much more loquacious. And then, really, it was about finding the [character]’s emotional place. Like, why he is kind of mumbly and inward.”

Kane has commented on the news writing on Facebook: "Anyone watching MoonKnight with Golden Globe nominee Oscar Isaacs... He's bloody studied my chavvy voice for the role....."

Read the full interview here

‘Moon Knight’  comes to Disney+ from March 30.

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