“Inside Llewyn Davis” is the story of a folk singer for whom everything is going wrong — the irony being that Oscar Isaac, who plays the titular struggling artist, had so very many things go right for him to get the part.
“It’s like the exact opposite of everything that happens to Llewyn, it’s like things have just fallen into place in such a great way,” Isaac said Wednesday night at TheWrap’s awards-season screening of the Coen brothers’ film at the Landmark theater in Los Angeles.
Key among them was a chance encounter for Isaac — who admits he played music and “sang, very badly, for years” prior to his audition – who found his guitar teacher while on the set of another film.