Moon Knight made its land on Disney+ with “The Goldfish Problem,” an episode that introduced us to Oscar Isaac’s Steven Grant and his alt-personality, Marc Spector. It was a premiere that opened with an unsettling scene.
Instead of dropping the audience immediately into Steven’s point of view, we were presented to a private moment for Ethan Hawke’s character, Arthur Harrow. The man embodied his last name with no dialogue only a simple gesture and “Every Grain of Sand” by Bob Dylan playing over the scene.
After finishing his drink, Harrow crushed his glass, swept the pieces into his shoes, and put them on. With his task finished, he stood and walked out of the room he’d been occupying. You could hear the glass crunching beneath his feet as he walked. He didn’t flinch, merely stepped forward, cane in hand. Talk about a character introduction.
The premiere didn’t go into why Harrow chooses to mutilate himself, however, it’s clearly a form of punishment. Hawke broke down this character choice in a recent interview.
Ethan Hawke reveals why Harrow puts glass in his shoes on Moon Knight
Speaking to Variety, Hawke had the following to say about the storytelling in the show’s opening scene:
That [scene] really sprang out of my imagination and our conversations…I kept asking the writers and directors, if it was a comic book, what would his full-page drawing be? And they were like, “What do you think it was?”
I started really meditating on that, and I started thinking about spiritual people who go crazy, who get mad on their own spiritual pride, and how often that turns inward and you see that they’re secretly self-lacerating in some way and hating themselves. Because we all have sin, and the idea that somebody is free of sin is not really possible if you’re human. And so with the self-hatred and the turning inward, I had this image of him listening to a hymn while he put broken glass in his shoes, that he hid from other people.
Harrow’s use of a cane was also folded into this decision. But if you’re worried about Hawke’s feet. The actor explained that it’s candy glass in his shoes. It turns to sand when pressure is applied to it, so his feet are fine.
Stay tuned to Hidden Remote for more Moon Knight news and coverage. New episodes of the six episode series premiere Wednesdays on Disney+.
Moon Knight: Ethan Hawke reveals why Harrow puts glass in his shoes
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