Maybe I’ve been living under a rock (have I?), but I don’t really think Oscar Isaac has risen to the status of “the internet’s boyfriend”… yet. Like, he’s on the cusp. The internet absolutely has a crush. The internet has drawn hearts around photos of Oscar Isaac and the internet is daydreaming about when their first kiss will happen. But full-on boyfriend? Not yet. But according to Rolling Stone, Oscar is it. And while he tries to shrug off the title, he ends up doing a lot of internet boyfriend-y stuff in this interview, like strumming a guitar and singing Jeff Buckley-esque love songs, and talking about his one-bedroom apartment in Williamsburg, and talking about whether he’ll have kids, etc. He’s a bit of a hipster. But I don’t hate it. Oh, and he’s actually still the real boyfriend of filmmaker Elvira Lind, just FYI. She gets mentioned in the piece, although he doesn’t actually say anything about her. You can read the full piece here. Some highlights:

He’s not a movie star: “I’m an actor, not a star. I don’t really know what you mean when you say ‘star,’ ‘movie star,’ that stuff.”

He doesn’t know what to make of his new title, “the Internet’s boyfriend”: “The Internet never struck me as being into monogamous relationships. It’s very promiscuous, the Internet.”

The outrage when he wore a t-shirt with the cover of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. “I liked the design. I didn’t think wearing the shirt was saying I agreed with all her politics. I’m not a libertarian!”

Playing a big blue guy in X-Men Apocalypse: “I would do some acting and then go to my tent and try to breathe and not freak out that sweat was pouring into my ears and I couldn’t touch them. It was rough. But the challenge of basically doing Kabuki theater in a film was crazy.”

He’s always liked X-Men: “I was really into the character. I’m not a huge comic-book-movie fan. I like them and I appreciate them, but it’s started to feel a little bit repetitive. I did really like Deadpool, and the last X-Men.”

Losing his surname, Hernandez: “They define you – ‘Latino actor, we’ll just bring him in for Spanish commercials.’ I’m interested in telling stories about the human experience that are not necessarily just about my personal circumstances. So how do I navigate that? I feel like I’ve been able to.”

The rise of Donald Trump: It’s “definitely irritating. The problem is it’s less about the guy that’s saying it, and more that he’s being the mouthpiece for a large part of the population. Because that’s me, that’s my family. We’re immigrants. What could be positive about it is that Trump could help to rally a lot of disparate parts of Latin America together. Because Latino is not a race – it’s a culture. There’s Chinese Latinos, there’s very white Latinos, there’s very dark Latinos, there’s black Latinos. There’s all sorts of variants – it’s not one thing.”

He abandoned his parents’ evangelical Christianity: “The social-conservative culture wasn’t lining up with what I was understanding Jesus was saying.”

He’s got a bigger role in Star Wars VIII: “In the new film, there’s a lot more to do. What happens now is the heroes get tested. All three of them” – Poe, Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s Finn – “get tested immensely.” And how’s BB-8 doing? “BB-8?s doing all right. BB-8 gets tested too! Everybody gets tested! It’s the dark second chapter, but not really dark.”

[From Rolling Stone]

The most interesting thing to me is that Poe is now seen as “on par” with Finn and Rey, like they’re the three leads. Quite a turn of events for Oscar Isaac, because wasn’t Poe supposed to be killed off in The Force Awakens originally? I also found the conversation about Latin identity interesting, how it’s a culture and not a race, and I think he’s trying to be diplomatic and noncommittal about the Trump stuff. If he talks about it, he’ll be seen as the stereotype of “the Latin actor talking about immigrants” and if he doesn’t talk about it, he’ll be a traitor to his people. Rock, hard place.

Photos courtesy of Mark Seliger/Rolling Stone.