Oscar Isaac has long enjoyed one of the best jobs in the world. No, I’m not talking about his status as one of the most popular and interesting working actors in Hollywood. I’m referring to the fact that he is one of few men to be appointed the Internet’s Boyfriend. Whether he’s playing a wisecracking rebel hero in Star Wars, a misunderstood musician in Inside Llewyn Davis, an arrogant tech CEO in Ex Machina or a space zaddy in the forthcoming Dune, one simple fact remains: a lot of people have a crush on him.
That thirst, which ranges from middling to ardent on an average day, just got pushed all the way up to 11 thanks to the most recent episode of the HBO miniseries Scenes From a Marriage. In the show, Isaac and his co-star Jessica Chastain take on auteur Ingmar Bergman’s iconic source material and turn the slow dissolution of a marriage into an acting showcase. And in episode 4, which aired last night, Isaac showed even more than usual.
During one extended, intense scene, Isaac and Chastain’s characters Jonathan and Mira meet up in the home they used to share to sign their divorce papers and make the split official. The encounter soon turns into a bout of passionate breakup sex, in which Jonathan and Mira seem to be using their bodies to express all of the raw feelings they can’t quite put into words. In the aftermath, Jonathan stands up, entirely naked, and indicates that he needs to shower.
And because Jonathan is played by none other than Oscar Isaac, that means the internet lost its mind when he showed his penis on-screen.
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It is the latest in a series of impactful moments on television this year that have hinged on full-frontal male nudity, which is still exceptionally rare compared to the depiction of naked female bodies in film and TV. First came the now-famous shower scene in Netflix’s steamy drama Sex/Life, in which the protagonist’s husband stalks his romantic rival into a gym locker room and is shocked to see what he’s packing, and the opening episode of satirical dark comedy The White Lotus, in which Steve Zahn’s character fears his enlarged balls might be a sign of illness.
Each of these scenes uses the penis as a prop of sorts, to make a statement about what is going on with the characters. In Sex/Life, Cooper’s willingness to gawp at Brad’s penis in the shower is a sign of how obsessive he is becoming. In The White Lotus, Mark’s fixation on his testicles bely larger concerns about his own mortality. And now, in Scenes From a Marriage, the awkward post-coital hygiene shifts the tone from erotic, where the characters are as one, to mundane, where they must each attend to their own respective needs.
You might read that as an elegant metaphor for romantic separation… or maybe you’ll just enjoy the memes about Oscar Isaac’s penis.
Philip EllisPhilip Ellis is a freelance writer and journalist from the United Kingdom covering pop culture, relationships and LGBTQ+ issues.
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