From playing a struggling folk musician to an ambitious heating oil entrepreneur, actor Oscar Isaac is all about the hustle. After his breakout in 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Isaac’s profile is on the rise with roles in the upcoming Star Wars and X-Men films. Isaac, 35, spoke to Reuters about the notion of ambition in his latest film “A Most Violent Year” and those pesky “Star Wars” questions. When he was asked: Did Abel Morales’ ambitions in “A Most Violent Year” resonate with your own? Isaac said, “These tales of ambition are fascinating, and the rise to power, what power means.”
“For me, I’ve never been interested in that, although ultimately it’d be great to find a story and be able to make it and to some extent, you do need a sense of power to be able to have that happen.