Oscar Isaac Has Entered His Romance Novel Cover Model Era
StyleFlowing locks? Chiseled features? Ruffled silk jacket? Check, check, and check.By Yang-Yi GohDecember 3, 2024Taylor HillSave this storySaveSave this storySaveFrom the moment he broke through in 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac has been one of Hollywood’s most reliable and versatile hunks. He did wounded-artist hunk in that Coen Brothers joint, performing the titular character’s folk songs himself and wearing a big scarf on Bleecker Street a decade before Timothée Chalamet followed suit. He showed off Harrison Ford-lite hunk in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, suburban intellectual hunk in HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage miniseries, and regal patriarch hunk in Dune. And at last night at the Gotham Awards, Isaac unveiled a whole new hunk we didn’t know he had in him: romance novel cover model hunk.On hand to present the aforementioned Timmy Chalamet and his A Complete Unknown director James Mangold with an honorary award, Isaac sported a dashing leading-man look courtesy of Brioni, the storied Italian tailoring house for which he signed on as an ambassador earlier this year. His crisp ensemble embraced one of our favorite rule-breaking color combos: chocolate brown sport coat and shirt up top; jet black trousers and loafers down below.Give Oscar Isaac and his flowing locks their own Bridgerton spinoff, you cowards. Taylor HillThe jacket was crafted from a sort of ruffled silk taffeta, calling to mind the advanced textural work of Issey Miyake—notable and striking enough on its own, but made even more so when paired with Isaac’s glorious new hair. And man, that hair! Tidily combed up top, with long, loose waves cascading down the back, everything about Isaac’s locks—in conjunction with the aforementioned ruffled silk and his steelier-than-ever features—screamed the sort of wildly anachronistic Elizabethan heartthrob who’d bare his freshly waxed abs on the front of a book your loose-cannon aunt would read called, like, An Alluring Eve with the Archduke or The Steamy Madness of the Marquis or whatever.Isaac, with his wife Elvira Lind in September, publicly debuted his longer hair in a tight bun. Bruce GlikasIsaac, obviously, has been growing his mane out for a minute—he stepped out with it slicked back and tied up in an also-fetching bun back in September. (It’s unclear if he has the extra length for a role; he is playing longhair icon Jesus Christ in next year’s The King of Kings, but that’s an animated movie.) The Gotham Awards, however, was the first time the 45-year-old just let his tresses fly, and he couldn’t have asked for a stronger debut: the neat-but-natural flow perfectly frames his face and doesn't feel the least bit out of place with his dressier clothes. It's exactly what you should aim for the next time you decide to skip a few trims. And now that a quick Google search has revealed to us that Oscar Isaac is, in fact, short for Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada—a name practically developed in a lab for a Harlequin hero—we hereby demand that Danielle Steele get cracking on a sensual historical page-turner based on these photos at once.
From the moment he broke through in 2013’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac has been one of Hollywood’s most reliable and versatile hunks. He did wounded-artist hunk in that Coen Brothers joint, performing the titular character’s folk songs himself and wearing a big scarf on Bleecker Street a decade before Timothée Chalamet followed suit. He showed off Harrison Ford-lite hunk in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, suburban intellectual hunk in HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage miniseries, and regal patriarch hunk in Dune. And at last night at the Gotham Awards, Isaac unveiled a whole new hunk we didn’t know he had in him: romance novel cover model hunk.
On hand to present the aforementioned Timmy Chalamet and his A Complete Unknown director James Mangold with an honorary award, Isaac sported a dashing leading-man look courtesy of Brioni, the storied Italian tailoring house for which he signed on as an ambassador earlier this year. His crisp ensemble embraced one of our favorite rule-breaking color combos: chocolate brown sport coat and shirt up top; jet black trousers and loafers down below.
The jacket was crafted from a sort of ruffled silk taffeta, calling to mind the advanced textural work of Issey Miyake—notable and striking enough on its own, but made even more so when paired with Isaac’s glorious new hair. And man, that hair! Tidily combed up top, with long, loose waves cascading down the back, everything about Isaac’s locks—in conjunction with the aforementioned ruffled silk and his steelier-than-ever features—screamed the sort of wildly anachronistic Elizabethan heartthrob who’d bare his freshly waxed abs on the front of a book your loose-cannon aunt would read called, like, An Alluring Eve with the Archduke or The Steamy Madness of the Marquis or whatever.
Isaac, obviously, has been growing his mane out for a minute—he stepped out with it slicked back and tied up in an also-fetching bun back in September. (It’s unclear if he has the extra length for a role; he is playing longhair icon Jesus Christ in next year’s The King of Kings, but that’s an animated movie.) The Gotham Awards, however, was the first time the 45-year-old just let his tresses fly, and he couldn’t have asked for a stronger debut: the neat-but-natural flow perfectly frames his face and doesn't feel the least bit out of place with his dressier clothes. It's exactly what you should aim for the next time you decide to skip a few trims. And now that a quick Google search has revealed to us that Oscar Isaac is, in fact, short for Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada—a name practically developed in a lab for a Harlequin hero—we hereby demand that Danielle Steele get cracking on a sensual historical page-turner based on these photos at once.
