One of the directors of moon knight, Muhammad Diabrecently revealed details about a deleted scene from the series that he hopes Marvel Studios will share with fans sooner or later.
While praising Oscar Isaac for being a great actor, Diab revealed that his favorite sequence was actually cut from the final episode. The scene featured Marc and Steven in front of her abusive mother in a white dress, perhaps to make peace with her traumatic childhood. Diab called Isaac’s performance Oscar-worthy, pun intended.
I think I’d say I was just rooting for him, but I always tell him, ‘You’re going to win everything,’ because he’s always great. He is a genius as an actor. The irony is that my favorite scene of his was cut. It was in episode six. As good as everything else, he actually topped it off with something even better. He was facing his mother in a blank void, and he was going back and forth between Marc and Steven. And oh my gosh, that scene itself is an Oscar-worthy performance. Hopefully Marvel will release that scene one day because Oscar was a genius.
Diab also talked about which moments in the last two episodes rival the steak scene from episode 1, mentioning how the emotional stakes are raised in the penultimate inning. While she was talking about there being a longer take of the steak scene, she mentioned the shiva scene as a key moment where Isaac embodies sadness through three different characters at once.
Well, the emotional stakes are raised in episode five. So if we’re talking about the amount of emotional intensity, everything in episode five is more intense. By the way, there was a longer version of the steak scene, which was also fantastic. So my favorites would be the steak scene and the scene after the sitting shiva when Marc cries on the floor. And then Marc and Steven are talking about it. Oscar did a fantastic job of feeling sad through three different people, and that was a great and emotional scene. I love what Oscar did there.
When asked if there was a version where Steven didn’t end up coming back, the director also confirmed that Steven was always meant to survive. Speaking with experts on Dissociative Identity Disorder, the series focused on learning to live with different identities instead of canceling them altogether.
Never. The journey is about Marc and Steven learning to live together, so you can’t just take one of them out. And by the way, this is something we learned from understanding what TID is through the experts we had on hand. People with DID learn to live with their identities, not cancel one or more of their identities.