Oscar Isaac Hired His Brother to Help Him Play Dual Personalities in 'Moon Knight'

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, Marvel Cinematic Universe’s latest spinoff about a superhero with dissociative identity disorder, Oscar Isaac plays two characters, Steven Grant and Marc Spector, who inhabit the same person.

And over the course of the six-part series, Isaac is seen as both personalities, who often engage one another through mirrors or other reflective surfaces, especially when fighting for control over their body.

In order to pull off those complicated scenes, the actor said he relied on his brother, Michael Benjamin Hernandez. “The first step was to hire my brother,” the 43-year-old actor shared when asked during a press conference about what it was like filming scenes where Steven and Marc are in conversation with each other.

His brother, Isaac continued, would “come in and be the other me.” “It was the closest thing to me there is on Earth,” Isaac said. “So, he came in and he would play either Steven or Marc and even did the accent and everything -- both accents — and so that was really helpful to have someone that’s not only a great actor but also shares my DNA to play off of.”He added, “Something that I didn’t anticipate was how technically demanding that was gonna be of having to, like, show up and decide which character I was gonna play first.