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Google PlayThere are spoilers for episodes one through four of Moon Knight; you’ve been warned.
Moon Knight, the latest Marvel series to hit Disney+, is finding its stride. The Oscar Isaac-led streaming show initially focused on the seemingly ordinary Steven Grant (Isaac) who suffered from sleepwalking and fits of confusion. As Moon Knight unfurled four of its six episodes, not all was as it seemed: Steven has dissociative identity disorder (DID) and shares his body with violent mercenary Marc Spector (Isaac still), who is imbued with special powers courtesy of the Egyptian moon god, Khonshu. Oh, and Marc is married to Layla El-Faouly, a daring adventurer in her own right.
As Steven’s world is turned upside down by these revelations, he’s reluctantly dragged along to Egypt in search of answers to stop zealot Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) from summoning the Egyptian goddess Ammit. Right as it seems as if Lyla and Steven/Marc will succeed, Steven/Marc are shot inside a pyramid…only to wake up inside of a psychiatric hospital. Marc, separated from Steven, encounters Harrow as a therapist who tells him that his time spent as Khonshu’s avatar is a figment of his imagination. Marc manages to escape and find Steven trapped inside a sarcophagus. As the two proceed throughout the hospital, they run into a giant hippo-head figure, which is where we are now.
Ahead of the series’ penultimate episode, Complex briefly chatted with Oscar Isaac and May Calamawy during a recent Moon Knight press junket to discuss subverting the traditional gender tropes of adventure tales, Episode 4’s big ending, and more.
