Oscar Isaac had been waiting a long time to work with filmmaker Paul Schrader, and in The Card Counter, he found a much-longed-for opportunity to portray an antihero directly in the mold of the writer-director’s signature works including Taxi Driver, Light Sleeper and First Reformed.“My relationship with Paul has spanned many, many years,” Isaac told moderator Dominic Patten at Deadline’s Contenders New York on Saturday. “One of my first auditions was for Paul in a little black box theater in the Valley somewhere for a movie that never ended up happening.
I did get the part, but unfortunately it didn’t happen – and we kept in touch.”The Contenders Film: New York — Deadline’s Complete CoverageThe Card Counter follows William Tell (Isaac), a
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