Plus, showrunner Dario Scardapane explains how the two stars crafted that unexpected moment of levity from preview footage.
Charlie Coxhas unfinished business in Hells Kitchen.
Season 3 had been well received and they had already gone to work on season 4.
Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’.Giovanni Rufino/MARVEL
They’d pitched me a really cool arc for the season, Cox tellsEntertainment Weekly.
But then came a 2020 call from Kevin Feige.
But now Feige wanted to incorporate Coxs Matt Murdock and his nemesis, Kingpin a.k.a.
Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’.Giovanni Rufino/MARVEL
Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) into the proper MCU.
First with small cameos inSpider-Man: No Way HomeandShe-Hulk, and then…?
I never thought it would be a TV show again.
Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) and Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’.Giovanni Rufino/MARVEL
I just assumed that we’d done that, so maybe it would be something else, Cox says.
It’s such a great medium for this character.
There is so much story left to tell.
So the more time we have to do that, the better!
Time has passed, and the creative personnel has changed as well.
After all, Cox and DOnofrio had waited years to return to these roles together.
The end result was a snippet of Murdock and Fisk sharing a laugh in a diner.
In its own way, that was more shocking than even the most violent fight scene.
I am so ridiculously proud of that moment where they share a chuckle, the showrunner says.
It was not in the original scene.
But we realized it had to be messed-up levity.
We built that moment through rehearsal and improv.
It was a round robin, and it became the center of that scene.
How these two grind against each other is 100 percent the engine of the story.
the Punisher), Karen Page, and Foggy Nelson.
