{"id":579720,"date":"2026-04-03T14:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579720\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:19:08","slug":"apocalypse-to-work-with-top-tier-actors-instead-he-got-a-cooling-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579720\/","title":{"rendered":"Apocalypse’ to Work With Top Tier Actors\u2014Instead, He Got a Cooling Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of actors have a project or two on their resume they feel like they\u2019ll never escape questions about. For Oscar Isaac<\/a> (although there\u2019s certainly a couple that could fill that role on his), it\u2019s probably going to be X-Men: Apocalypse<\/a> for a very long time. Which is a shame, because it mostly sounds like what he got out of that film was avoiding heatstroke in a tent.<\/p>\n

Isaac was a guest on this week\u2019s\u00a0Hot Ones, where of course\u2014perhaps thematically appropriately\u2014he was once again asked to open up about his time on the\u00a0X-Men flop<\/a>. The thing is, Isaac just didn\u2019t have much of a time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the big reasons I did the job, I was like, \u2018Fassbender? Jennifer Lawrence? McAvoy? All these amazing actors. Yeah!\u2019,\u201d Isaac explained. \u201cAnd then I never saw any of them because I was so overheated. And like, I couldn\u2019t turn. So, I just got put in this cooling tent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes someone would come by and be like [patting him on the back], \u2018Hey, Oscar. I\u2019d be like \u2018Huh?\u2019 And by the time I turned around, they were gone already. So, it was very challenging. But I am thankful for the cooling tent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, this is far from the first time Isaac has been asked to answer for the sins of Apocalypse, both the character and the movie. Back in 2018, just two years after the film had released, Isaac described the film as \u201cexcruciating\u201d to work on because of him being trapped under layer upon layer of prosthetic effects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know when I said yes that that was what was going to be happening,\u201d Isaac told GQ<\/a> at the time. \u201cThat I was going to be encased in glue, latex, and a 40-pound suit\u2014that I had to wear a cooling mechanism at all times. I couldn\u2019t move my head, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

So perhaps we can all stop asking Oscar Isaac to relive his sweaty X-perience, because again: it seems most of it was about being in a tent. At least we have\u00a0Moon Knight to bug him about<\/a> instead?<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lots of actors have a project or two on their resume they feel like they\u2019ll never escape questions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,3078,50265,115982],"class_list":{"0":"post-579720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-marvel","13":"tag-oscar-isaac","14":"tag-x-men-apocalypse"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}