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Oscar Isaac is currently starring in one of the biggest movies of the year in Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. He has made the rounds of A-list celebrity jobs, including a major role in Star Wars and three turns as a major Marvel character. Still, even that doesn't mean he'd do just anything - especially, seemingly, if it's Disney.

In an interview published on November 10 at GQ, Oscar Isaac was asked about the possibility of his returning to Disney's Star Wars franchise. In the past, he said he'd prefer not to unless for financial reasons, but these days he seems more open to it, if not for Lucasfilm parent company Disney's then-recent actions to suspend production of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

"Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney," Isaac tells GQ's Alex Pappademas. "But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."

The question about returning for Star Wars quickly became a question about if Oscar Isaac would work on that or any other project for Disney. The actor's statement about his reticence to work at Disney was made two days after Disney suspended production on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live following public condemnations by the U.S. government and some network affiliates over a statement the host made regarding the death of Charlie Kirk. The stalemate between Disney/ABC and Kimmel was ultimately resolved in the short term at least, with him resuming his show the following week.

While modern-day fascism in the United States might seem like an abstract thought to some, Isaac and his family come from Guatemala, which endured a 30+ year civil war in the late 20th Century prompted by several right-wing military dictatorship regimes.

Oscar Isaac's long-standing reservations about Star Wars and Marvel-type projects

But Isaac has been exceedingly transparent about deep reservations about doing work in larger cinematic universes such as Star Wars and the MCU going back years, even before the Jimmy Kimmel Live! incident - and even before signing on to Marvel Studios' Moon Knight. 

"I had so much hesitation. So much,” Isaac told The Hollywood Reporter in 2022 about the Moon Knight project. “I was like, ‘I just finally got out of a long time of being a part of the Star Wars universe,’ which I loved doing, but it definitely took up a lot of my time. So I was excited to get back to more character studies and smaller films.”

He's also called filming those types of projects as akin to filming in a “green screen alien space land."

Where it stands for Oscar Isaac and Disney right now

Earlier this year, Isaac dropped out of the new Tony Gilroy film Behemoth! just as it was picked up by the Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures. Back in the spring, Isaac also pulled out of his appearance at Disney's Star Wars Celebration 2025 event. In both cases, it was reported to be "a scheduling conflict." For full transparency, Popverse's parent company manages the Star Wars Celebration events with Disney.

Isaac has no announced upcoming projects with Disney or any of its individual studios; the closest thing is voicing Miguel O'Hara/Spider-Man 2099 in Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse. Disney's Marvel is involved as the licensor of Spider-Man movie/TV rights to Sony. Isaac's last-announced work with Disney was voicing Moon Knight in a 2024 episode of Marvel Animation's What If...? for Disney+.

Following Frankenstein, Isaac is announced to be a part of two new series for Apple TV+ (Stowaway and Bananas), as well as the indie vampire flick Flesh of the Gods. Guillermo Del Toro says he wants to do another movie with Isaac called Fury, but that project hasn't gotten beyond a conversation in an interview, publicly at least. 

While it would seem like Isaac reprising his role as Moon Knight in a future MCU project, such as Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars, or a Moon Knight season 2 might seem easy to imagine, that might be premature given Isaac's comments - not just on Disney, but on his desire to do more "green screen alien space land" projects.

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