Top 10 Ways Oscar Isaac’s Uncle Scored Cameos in His Nephew’s Films
Recently, Oscar Isaac explained to Jimmy Fallon exactly how his uncle managed to get a cameo in The Force Awakens. But that wasn’t enough exposure for the hardest working uncle in show biz. He also took to the comments section of a StarWars7News article about him. Apparenly this wasn’t the first cameo in one of his nephew’s films. After the jump we will look back at how Uncle Isaac’s uncle scammed his way into some of the greatest cameos in cinema history.
Showed up on the set of Drive wearing a Menudo jacket with scribbled scorpion drawn on back, claiming to be the Driver’s Driver
Convinced the Coen brothers he was El Puma, a Latin American pop star and pussy whisperer, so they let him wrangle cats on the set of Inside Llewyn Davis
Customized a violin into a secret machine gun because he thought the film was called A Most Violint Year and was hoping for some Robert Rodriguez El Mariachi action
Offered to give everyone on the set of Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood a free perm to sport “that 12th century Soul Glo look” like King John as portrayed by Oscar
Said he appeared in Mel Gibson’s Apocolypto because his face was “Apocalyptic”, and it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to be “Acopolypsic” alongside Oscar in the next X-Men film
Told the producers of Ex Machina that he was secretly having an affair with a Dyson vaccuum, which he had crossbred with an iRobot Roomba, so he would be perfect as Oscar’s stand-in for love scenes with the sexy robot girl
Pretended to be a millinery expert on the set of The Two Faces of January, despite the fact that his “hat skills” were limited to having owned or borrowed a Kangol with the Guatemalan colors on it at some point in the 1980s.
Handed out t-shirts to the cast and crew of Sucker Punch that read “I’m with Sucker”, while saving a special one for himself that read “I’m with Oscar”
When Oscar was cast as “Outcome #3” in The Bourne Legacy, his uncle approached director Tony Gilroy and made a successful bilingual plea to be cast as “Income #2”
To get a cameo in Won’t Back Down — a film about teachers in an inner city school — Oscar’s uncle perfumed his own stunts for producers, falling down the stairs over and over again in the greatest ‘Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante in Stand & Deliver‘ impression anyone has ever seen
