Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’

Oscar Isaac told Variety in late August before the world premiere of “Frankenstein” at the Venice Film Festival that he was more than open to returning as Poe Dameron in a future “Star Wars” movie. Isaac played the dashing X-wing fighter pilot in three “Star Wars” films from 2015 to 2019. But returning to the Disney-owned franchise got a little more complicated for Isaac just a few weeks later, when Disney-owned ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air over comments he made about the shooting death of Charlie Kirk.

In a new interview with GQ magazine, Isaac was asked about returning to “Star Wars” and had this new clarification to add: “Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great… if that happens,…