'Moon Knight': Who is the Voice of Khonshu, and What's His Connection to Oscar Isaac?
etonline.com, the latest MCU series on Disney+, stars Oscar Isaac as the titular superhero with dissociative identity disorder who shares a psychic connection with Egyptian god Khonshu.
While Moon Knight has multiple personalities – Marc Spector, Steven Grant and Mr. Knight – all played by Isaac, Khonshu is an entirely separate character voiced by F.
Murray Abraham. Entirely CGI here, Egyptian-American actor Karim El-Hakim captured Khonshu’s performance on set while the 82-year-old actor, who won an Oscar for and previously voiced characters for and, lent his commanding star power to the god’s audible personality. “He was the perfect person to bring the gravitas to that character,” Isaac, who is also an executive producer on the series, tells ET’s Will Marfuggi about casting Abraham as the manipulative god of the moon and vengeance, who has ulterior motives not entirely known by his human avatar.
He adds, “We were talking about the nature of Khonshu’s voice and the fact that F. Murray — apart from just having an incredible voice -- is also of Syrian descent.
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