1) Oscar Isaac As Any Nationality In Everything
The word ‘chameleon’ is thrown around all too often these days. We apply it to the likes of Tom Hardy, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jake Gyllenhaal. All talented, adaptable performers, all of whom – respectfully – can play nothing other than Caucasian males. Then you have Oscar Isaac.
Born in Guatemala but raised in Miami, Isaac is of Guatemalan, Cuban and French ancestry. And he plays different nationalities like he’s collecting stamps: American, as well as Russian (PU-239), Cuban (Che), Middle-Eastern (Body of Lies), English (Robin Hood), Roman (Agora), Welsh-Italian (Inside Llewyn Davis), and soon, Egyptian (X-Men: Apocalypse).
It would be more ‘bizarre’ still if Isaac wasn’t so damn convincing at pretending to hail from every single one of those countries.