Oscar Isaacwasn’t sure he wanted to join the Marvel universe.

“It wasn’t a character I was familiar with.

Fortunately for Isaac,Moon Knighthit that target in two ways.

Oscar Isaac in ‘Moon Knight’

Oscar Isaac in ‘Moon Knight’.Marvel Studios

(Again, we said it was weird.)

The result is the ambitiousMoon Knight, a supernatural saga that debuts Wednesday on Disney+.

Isaac jokes that Marvel was approaching maximum capacity on stories set in New York City.)

It was Diab who suggested using reflections to portray those heart-to-hearts a theme that recurs throughout the series.

“It’s just suffused with meaning and symbolism.”

Fortunately for Isaac, he also had an unexpected ally on set for those tricky mirrored sequences.

“He’s a great actor, and he happens to share my DNA.”

“Not only for me, but everyone involved.

There was so much freedom to fail, to try stuff.

You only get a good idea by saying a lot of dumb ideas first, generally.

There was a lot of trust in that process.

I think that was a big surprise.”