Oscar Isaac has won acclaim for his versatility, starring in blockbuster movies like “Star Wars” and “Dune,” but there’s still one gig that has eluded him: being a judge on “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Page Six joked during an exclusive interview with the actor Thursday that he should put out feelers to let producers know that he is eager to join the judging panel in search of America’s Next Drag Superstar.
“Well, this is a feeler now!” he responded.
Isaac, 43, is such a fan of the reality competition series that he found it nearly impossible to name his favorite contestant.
“Oh, man. Oh, Willow Pill — she won, she was so great,” he told us. “That’s a really hard one. There’s so many, there’s so many. I don’t think I could pick.”
To pass the time while waiting to hear from the “Drag Race” team, the “Ex Machina” star is starring in “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music opposite “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” star Rachel Brosnahan.
Written by Lorraine Hansberry, who also penned “A Raisin in the Sun,” it’s the first major New York revival of the play since its original Broadway run in 1964.
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The show is remarkably prescient, dealing with a group of friends in Greenwich Village grappling with the themes of politics, idealism, women’s rights and race.
Isaac, who plays the title character, jokingly describes “The Sign” as a “Greek tragedy wrapped up in a ‘Seinfeld’ episode.”
“This is pre-‘Seinfeld,’ pre-Woody Allen, so [Hansberry] is dealing with this group of friends who interact around this apartment, and there’s this very funny, acerbic, Jewish New Yorker at the center,” he shared. “It speaks to her prophetic nature. She was so ahead of her time and not particularly acknowledged for it.”
Hansberry died of pancreatic cancer in 1965 at age 34.
Isaac admitted that, like many, he has been exhausted by the political cycle of the last few years, saying the play speaks to that fatigue and “the real deep desire to step away from it all and withdraw and focus on self.” However, he noted that by the end, Hansberry is “basically saying you can try to run away, but it’s going to find you, so act, do something.”
Page Six reached out to RuPaul in hopes of securing Isaac a spot on “Drag Race” but sadly did not hear back.
