Oscar Isaac was actually looking forward to his role in X-Men: Apocalypse. After all, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence are in the film. But then the filming turned into an extremely unpleasant experience that didn’t even allow the star to properly interact with the rest of the cast. The result is on TV today.
That’s what X-Men: Apocalypse, our TV tip for today, is about
After the events of X-Men: First Class and Days of Future Past, the mutants in X-Men: Apocalypse face one of the meanest and most dangerous adversaries in the Marvel comic universe. The very first mutant ever awakens comes to life again after many years of gentle slumber and is accordingly pissed off.
Above all, he dislikes the way the mutants and humans have developed. In his opinion, Mutants must not show any weakness and are naturally superior to humans. That’s why he wants to live up to his name Apocalypse, gets support from Magneto and the X-Men around Professor Xavier have to join forces with humans to save the Earth.
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The X-Men: Apocalypse shoot was hell for Moon Knight star Oscar Isaac
To embody Apocalypse, Oscar Isaac was put into a massive suit that prevented him from moving normally or even seeing anything, as the actor reports in an interview with the New York Times.
There were these great actors involved that I really wanted to work with,
[James] McAvoy and [Michael] Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence. When I was growing up, I collected X-Men and I loved Apocalypse, I just thought he was such a crazy, strange character.And then you get there and say, oh my god, I have all these prosthetics on. I have a suit on. I can’t move. I can’t see anyone. All these actors I wanted to work with – I can’t even see who they are. In a GQ article from some time ago, Oscar Isaac described in more detail, how difficult it is to film in the Apocalypse costume and everything around it.I had to sit on a specially designed saddle because that’s the only thing I could really sit on, and I was rolled into a cooling tent between takes.
This means that the Moon Knight lead actor couldn’t even really talk to the other stars of the cast and above all, sweated a lot. Removing the mask was also unpleasant because it took several hours to scrape everything off.
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TV or stream: When and where is X-Men: Apocalypse coming out?
X-Men: Apocalypse is airing today, Sunday, June 30th at 20:15 on ProSiebenThe repeat will be broadcast on Monday, July 1st, at 2:20 a.m.
If you don’t feel like watching TV or simply can’t make it to the dates mentioned, you still have the opportunity to stream the X-Men film. You can do this, for example at Disney+ in the subscription flat rate or on Amazon, MagentaTV, Maxdome, Apple TV or Google.
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