{"id":27866,"date":"2014-12-03T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=27866"},"modified":"2014-12-09T00:29:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T08:29:18","slug":"oscar-isaac-was-already-a-fan-of-apocalypse-before-being-cast-in-the-villainous-xmen-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=27866","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Isaac already a fan of APOCALYPSE before being cast in villainous #XMen role."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27873\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?attachment_id=27873\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xfact-apoc.jpg?fit=631%2C326&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"631,326\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"xfact-apoc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xfact-apoc.jpg?fit=631%2C326&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xfact-apoc.jpg?resize=631%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"xfact-apoc\" width=\"631\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xfact-apoc.jpg?w=631&amp;ssl=1 631w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xfact-apoc.jpg?resize=300%2C154&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtv.com\/videos\/news\/1104823\/oscar-isaac-was-always-an-apocalypse-fan.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a> caught up with <strong>Oscar Isaac<\/strong>, who was recently cast as the title villain in Bryan Singer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-apocalypse\/\">X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a>. The actor revealed that he was very familiar with the character decades before being asked to play the coveted role.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first comic book I ever collected was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X-Factor_%28comics%29\" target=\"_blank\">X-Factor<\/a> and that was in &#8217;86 [or] &#8217;87,&#8221; says Isaac. &#8220;I read that story with Archangel and Apocalypse, I was also obsessed with the book of revelations a bit&#8230; I was a weird kid, so anything that referenced the second coming or the rapture, which I wanted to share the good news with you [laughing], so I was really into Apocalypse, so when I found out that they were interested in me for it, I was really excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Isaac says he doesn&#8217;t know how his character will look in the film, but that he&#8217;s really excited to get started.<\/p>\n<p>The film begins production this Spring for a May 27, 2016 theatrical release.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #000000; width:470px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:1104823\/cp~vid%3D1104823%26instance%3Dmtv%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A1104823\" width=\"470\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;\">Get More:<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #439cd8;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/music\/\" target=\"_blank\">Music News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTV caught up with Oscar Isaac, who was recently cast as the title villain in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,5,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-video","category-x-men-apocalypse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/oscar-feat.jpg?fit=495%2C149&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}