Arthur Harrow: Last News

Zack Sharf Ethan Hawke joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe earlier this year in the Disney+ series “Moon Knight,” where he played the villainous cult leader Arthur Harrow. For fans of the actor, Hawke’s decision to join the MCU was a surprise given that he spoke critically of the comic book genre in the past. The actor’s main gripe was with critics for propping up comic book films as if they’re art films. Hawke said in a new interview with IndieWire that it’s not “stuck up” to think this way.“It needs to be somebody in the community saying, ‘Hey, everybody, this is not ‘Fanny and Alexander,'” Hawke said, noting that he doesn’t mind directors such as Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola being critical of Marvel movies.

Oscar Isaac turning in a spellbinding performance as both Marc and Steven, who have to come to terms with themselves, and each other, in order to take on the cult leader, Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke).«Oscar changed the game, absolutely,» executive producer Grant Curtis told ET about one of the newest actors to take up the mantle of a Marvel hero. «I remember being on set one of the days when he kind of broke that barrier and played both [Marc and Steven] back to back.

Hollywood actor Ethan Hawke, 51, has revealed his daughter Maya Hawke, 23, had a hand in convincing him to take on his new Marvel role.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.Marvel has added a new live-action series to its growing lineup this week with the debut of “Moon Knight” on Disney Plus.The highly anticipated show, starring Oscar Isaac as the franchise’s infamous antihero, marks the fifth comic series that the streamer has adapted for the screen, following wildly successful hits such as “WandaVision” and “The Mandalorian.” It’s also the first time that the Moon Knight character, whose story has been explored in dozens of comic issues since 1970, will be featured heavily onscreen.The story starts off by following a British gift shop employee named Steven Grant (Isaac), who is haunted by nightmarish visions seemingly caused by a mysterious force that’s taken over his mind. Soon enough, it turns out those visions are really the real, dissociative states of Mark Specter, another character played by Isaac that shares Grant’s body and identity but is also a human embodiment of the Egyptian god Khonshu.

Angelique Jackson SPOILER ALERT: Do not read unless you’ve watched the series premiere of Marvel Studios’ “Moon Knight,” now streaming on Disney Plus. “Moon Knight,” the latest entry in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is as much a story about the gods of Egypt as it is about superheroes.

Ethan Hawke thinks that movie villains are often built on "mental illness. " The 51-year-old actor stars as charismatic antagonist Arthur Harrow in Marvel Cinematic Universe spin-off series 'Moon Knight' and although he thinks that the history of film is littered with "mentally ill" villains, he had to find a "sane lunatic" for his role because the process was "inverted" for the show. He said: "The history of movies is paved with storytellers using mental illness as a building block for the villain.

Is Ethan Hawke’s Marvel Cinematic Universe bad guy Arthur Harrow all that he’s cracked up to be?

Wilson Chapman editorGet ready to meet the many, many sides of Marc Spector.During the Super Bowl, Marvel Studios unveiled the second trailer for “Moon Knight,” the Oscar Isaac-starring limited series premiering March 30 on Disney Plus.The Marvel Cinematic Universe series stars Isaac as Moon Knight, a character first created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin in 1975 for the comic series “Werewolf by Knight.” In most depictions of the character, Moon Knight is the secret identity of Marc Spector, a former CIA operative turned mercenary who dies during a job in Sudan but is revived and turned into the conduit of the Egyptian moon god Khonshu, becoming a Batman-esque vigilante. One of the character’s most notable traits is his dissociative identity disorder, which manifests in several distinct personas with defined personalities.