Music

Star Wars star Oscar Isaac used to play in a ska band

by Tyler Munro

From his uneasy, villainous role in Ex Machina to his big breaks in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and X-Men: Apocalypse, Oscar Isaac’s star is about to go supernova. But before he was creeping us out (and captivating us) on the silver screen, it turns Oscar Isaac was one of us — a suspender-toting ska kid with a bad goatee and an affinity for the Marley family.

Watch below as Isaac, seen on bass in a wife-beater and durag (???), skanks his way through a cover of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry” with his old band The Worms.

Haven’t gotten your Star Wars ticket yet? Do yourself a favour and pick it up, pick it up, pick it up!

First Rachel from Master of None and now Oscar Isaac. Have we hit Hollywood’s “was in a ska band” years?

[h/t Mashable]