In what promises to be an absolutely fascinating film, watch Oscar Isaac, his wife Elvira Lind and long-time friend Sam Gold in King Hamlet as they document the rehearsal and execution of Isaac and Gold’s 2017 production of Hamlet, detailing not only the journey to the stage of their vision of the story of the Prince of Denmark, but also what was happening in the real world, from the marriage of Isaac and Lind to the death of his mother and the birth of his son, Eugene.
“I think there was an understanding that this might not ever see the light of day,” Isaac admits. “In a way, that had to be the understanding in order for us – I think for both of us — to feel comfortable filming these things. It was maybe, ‘This will just be for us as this little keepsake that we have. Maybe it’ll just be footage that lives in a hard drive that we will revisit one day because it is very painful things. Beautiful things as well. And also, perhaps there isn’t even a film in there. We don’t know.’ It’s just a lot of things happening and Elvira very wisely and gently allowing herself to capture these things. And that’s also why it was put away for so long. This happened in 2017, so it was a long incubation time.”
Isaac stars in Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, which is released this weekend, with Visual Effects by ILM.
