Isaac on Recruiting ‘The Four Horsemen’ in APOCALYPSE.

IGN recently caught up with Oscar Isaac, who portrays the villainous “En Sabah Nur” in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. The actor reveals his thoughts on the recruitment of Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen and portraying different incarnations of the ancient mutant.

“Without giving anything away, the recruitment of the Four Horsemen is very cool,” the actor enthused. “It’s very interesting the way that he does that. You know the idea of – the way that cult leaders do – they find people that are in need of something and try to fulfill that thing in them – as it relates to every one of the Horseman.

“On an individual level he’s able to reveal the true power of his Horsemen and what’s true to them. And I think to reveal the weakness – how weak we’ve become. Because this is an ancient entity. So to come to – I think 1983 – and say, ‘How did the world become so weak? How did we allow ourselves to become to weak and to enslave ourselves.’ I think that’s where he’s coming from.”

On exploring Apocalypse’s ability to change his molecular structure and other powers.

“Absolutely. And at the same time figuring out what the limits are and how it relates to how he moves and what it costs him. That’s always a fun thing. So to be able to sit with [writer/producer] Simon Kinberg and – as a fan – just go through it and be like, ‘Well what about this!?! You know, this is something that he does in the comics and is there a way to incorporate this? Or if he has this power suddenly how do we make that not come out of nowhere?’ So it’s really fun to map that thing out. But yes, the nature of how his powers manifest themselves is to a certain extent quite open to interpretation. Because there are so many and they are so vast.”

Production begins next week for a May 27, 2016 theatrical release.