Thursday, May 21, 2015

Oscar Isaac Ex Machina

It's not longer a question of could it? The destination is to locate how you're going to react to it. When A.I.'s become too human will you know? What it's already happening? From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with Oscar Isaac from Ex Machina OSCAR ISAAC, who plays Nathan in Ex Machina, was most recently seen in J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year, as a Hispanic man who immigrates to America and winds up a successful businessman during 1981, one of the deadliest years in New York City history. Other recent films include Two Faces of January from director Hossein Amini, and Mojave, written and directed by William Monahan. He will next be in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars:Episode VII—the first of a trilogy—scheduled to hit theaters December 18, 2015. Isaac’s list of upcoming projects also includes the new HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero. Isaac will star as Nick Wasickso, the youngest big-city mayor in the nation, whofinds himself thrust into the center of the fight for housing desegregation in Yonkers, N.Y. in the late 1980s. Isaac starred as the title character in the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. This film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix award, and has since garnered numerous awards and nominations, including Isaac’s Toronto Film Critics Award for Best Actor, and his Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical. Isaac shows off his skills as a singer and performer on the Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack, lending an element of authenticity to his portrayal of the struggling folk singer. Isaac also recently starred in The Bourne Legacy, the fourth installment of the Bourne franchise, directed by Tony Gilroy, W.E.,directed by Madonna, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, and Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. Other past films include the Anchor Bay ensemble feature Ten Year, for which Oscar wrote an original song—which he also performs in the film; Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch; Agora, directed by Alejandro Amenabar; Balibo, for which Oscar received an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor; In Secret, based on the Emile Zola novel; Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies; Daniel Barnz’s Won’t Back Down; Steven Soderbergh’s Che; Vadim Perelman’s The Life Before Her Eyes; HBO’s PU-239; and The Nativity Story. Off-Broadway, Isaac appeared in Zoe Kazan’s play We Live Here at Manhattan Theatre Club, and in the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park productions of Romeo and Juliet and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Oscar also appeared in Beauty of the Father at Manhattan Theatre Club and in MCC Theater’s Grace. Additional theatre credits include Arrivals and Departures, When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba, and Spinning into Butter. Isaac studied performing arts at the Juilliard School in New York City. EX MACHINA SYNOPSIS Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller Ex Machina. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated—and more deceptive—than the two men could have imagined.

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