OSCAR ISAAC about his bromance with PEDRO PASCAL for ESQUIRE (2022)
Isaac has of course made friends, good friends, over the years—friends who feel like family, or a different kind of family. One is Pedro Pascal, whom he met when they both acted in an off-Broadway play. “We have very similar backgrounds,” Pascal says. “We’re both children of Latin immigrants, so there’s sort of a cultural familiarity, then at the same time we’re both actors. We have the same dreams. It’s something very special because it can be a lonely journey when you’re out there going after—it sounds corny, but going after your dreams, and to find family along the way.” He pauses, laughs: “The other side of it is that he’s the younger brother I never wanted.”
Nobody asked for this but I can exactly pinpoint the moment my celebrity crush on Oscar Isaac started
*hum hum*the year was 2014! December, the last Wednesday before Christmas break. In philosophy class. There was an unofficial rule that the week before any breaks, the teachers would show movies. Usually this had something to do with the subject they taught or with what we were studying at the time. Sometimes not (I watched Zombieland one year after all…)
The philosophy teacher was this really weird lady. Always wearing the same outfit every single day. It’s like she lived in her own little dimension. And she was not the kind of teacher to show movies. But this day surprise! She had a movie for us!
The movie was ‘Agora’. “It’s about a woman philosopher!” she said. We were an only girls class, we were always down for a good old dose of girlbossery. And anything was better than philosophy class anyway
If you don’t know the movie Agora, it is indeed about Hypatia, a woman philosopher from the 4th-5th century, and she is played by the absolute MILF Rachel Weisz.
But we’re not here to drool on Rachel Weisz, we’re here to drool on Oscar Isaac.
One of Hyptia’s students was this cocky young man, Orestes, who would grow out of this cockiness and become a Roman prefect. This boy had the most perfect curly hair and wore the little Roman skirt like no one. You know where I’m going… it was our beloved pretty boy Oscar!
Anyway i can tell you that 17yo me paid extra extra attention to this movie…
