The name of Oscar Isaac’s son has been revealed.
The star explained that his baby boy is called Eugene, as a tribute to his late mother Eugenia.
Oscar told the New York Times that Eugene takes after his late grandmother, and inherited her lips and hands.
Moving: Oscar Isaac named his son Eugene as a tribute to his mother Eugenia, who died in February | Open Road Films
Eugenia sadly died in February, two months before the Star Wars actor and girlfriend Elvira Lind welcomed their son.
Oscar is playing Hamlet at the Public Theater in New York City this summer, and would read his mother the Shakespeare play while taking care of her in hospital.
“I didn’t know how to process any of this, but this I knew how to do,” he said. “I know it happens to everybody, but it’d never happened to me. I know people’s mothers have died, but this was mine.”
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— Annika Andersson (@Cinespons) April 27, 2017
Oscar added of the play: “It’s for my mom that I’m doing it. It’s to honor her life, but also her death, which was so awful.”
The star thinks of Eugene when reciting Hamlet’s famous “to be or not to be” question, which he explains is about choosing life instead of death.
“You have a child, and you must — you must for their sake — you must say yes to life,” he shared.
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