Mr. Isaac, you recently said about your new role in the series Moon Knight, which premiered on Disney+ last week, that you found the opportunity there to do things that were completely new to you.

What exactly do you mean by that?

The museum employee Steven, for example, is a character I've never played before: sweet and funny and introverted.

He's also British, which wasn't in the script at all, but I made it up.

But there is another side to Steven's personality;

Basically, I'm not just playing a character in "Moon Knight" for a long time.

Playing two very different guys in the same story was definitely new to me.

I was also more involved in the development of a role than ever before.

I was involved in almost all decisions, and that too was an experience I had never had before.

Sounds good.

But did you still have to think twice about stepping into the massive Marvel machinery?

And how.

I put off the decision for months.

Sometimes I wanted to bang my head against the wall because I just didn't know whether to really take the role or not.

Because at Marvel you can be pretty sure you'll be tied to the role for longer than six episodes?

Once that. But also because I was afraid of the moment that I would eventually find myself on the set wrapped in a superhero cape and wonder what I was actually doing there.

Don't get me wrong: I saw huge potential in this project and I was sure that ideally it could be great fun and creatively incredibly fulfilling.

But there's never a guarantee - and the worst-case scenario imaginable caused me to panic.

If only because the shooting lasted eight months.

So it wasn't the pressure of expectations from the fans that gave you a headache?

No, I didn't actually think of that.

You don't have any control over whether fans and critics end up liking something or not, so I'm pretty good at keeping that at bay.

I was really more concerned with the question of how big the chance is that I will agree to something that I have been unhappy with for months at work.

But then I allowed myself to really talk intensively with everyone involved for a few weeks to make sure that we all wanted the same thing.

And at some point I was quite sure that the probability of a catastrophe was rather low.

Have you been told if and how the "Moon Knight" character will continue, be it in series form or in the cinema?

Marvel boss Kevin Feige never really looks at the cards.

He hasn't discussed anything with me beyond that first season.

But it probably also depends on how the fans will take the character.

The character, as you indicated, suffers from dissociative personality disorder.

How much finesse does something like this require, even though we're in a fantasy scenario here?

Not just a lot of instinct, but also research.

It was important to me to deal with this disorder very truthfully and honestly.

In a way I'm not familiar with from fictional stories in film and television.

In the past, such a premise would only have been misused for a Jekyll and Hyde number.

Luckily, that's no longer possible today.

That's why we've done our best - even if we're "only" a comic book adaptation and don't claim to be medical experts - to draw a credible picture of such a disorder and to convey a sense of what abuse is with the help of genre elements and symbols from Egyptian sagas and can induce trauma in a human brain.