Ethan Hawke, who plays the villain in the new MCU miniseries “Moon Knight,” has been phenomenal so far. Ethan is excited about his role as villain Arthur Harrow and said, “If you’re playing a villain you have to erase that word from your brain, and you have to see the universe from their point of view.”
His character is based on a number of personalities, such as cult leader David Koresh, psychiatrist Carl Jung, Cuban president Fidel Castro, Dalai Lama, writer Leo Tolstoy, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, and Nazi officer and doctor Josef Mengele. Disclosing what interests him about cult leaders, he explained, “I find it really interesting when you think about cult leaders throughout history, those megalomaniacs very often start out extremely idealistic and then the idealism takes a hit or they compromise themselves in some way.”
He concluded by saying: “Most people who commit terrible crimes in this world don’t wake up in the morning and say, ‘I’m the bad guy.’ They have their reasons, and hell is paved with their reasons. So as an actor I had to come up with Harrow’s reasons and make them as rational and sane and compelling as possible”.
Taling about episode 3, Hawke’s performance was definitely a highlight. With a brutal action sequence that has been anticipated since the first episode of the series appeared on Disney+, the show made another bold step forward. Moon Knight is finally overpowered while wearing his powerful suit, featuring the thugs of antiquities thief Anton Mogart. Additionally, even though Mogart only appeared for a short time, the late Gaspard Thomas Ulliel played his role as the collector admirably.