Charlie Cox Had One Question About Daredevil That Echo’s Director Says ‘Sparked So Many Conversations’
Netflix’s Daredevil may have been unexpectedly cancelled back in 2018, but in the past few years, Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock has joined the MCU, making cameos here and there between his "Spider-Man: No Way Home" moment and his stint on "She-Hulk." Ahead of the actor leading another show with Disney+’s "Daredevil: Born Again," he’s part of the Echo cast. When CinemaBlend spoke to the January series’ director, Sydney Freeland, she shared with us how Cox contributed to Echo prior to filming his latest MCU appearance.
Echo primarily tells the story of Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez following the character’s introduction in "Hawkeye," but the next of upcoming Marvel TV shows also leans into connections with Netflix’s Daredevil by having the likes of Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk interwoven in Maya’s storyline. During our interview with Freeland, she shared with us how Cox in particular influenced the production.
Echo primarily tells the story of Alaqua Cox’s Maya Lopez following the character’s introduction in "Hawkeye," but the next of upcoming Marvel TV shows also leans into connections with Netflix’s Daredevil by having the likes of Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk interwoven in Maya’s storyline. During our interview with Freeland, she shared with us how Cox in particular influenced the production.
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00:00 Charlie and Vincent, you know, I think there's a reason they got along so well in the Netflix series.
00:06 They're both extremely thoughtful actors that care deeply about their role.
00:11 And I think a perfect illustration of that is one of the first conversations with Charlie that we had was, you know,
00:19 it was a question from him and he said, "You know, it's just been sort of eating at me.
00:24 Like, if Daredevil is blind and Maya is deaf, how are they going to communicate?"
00:30 And we were all just sort of dumbfounded on the moment because that wasn't something we...
00:34 And mind you, we're already months in the prep on this thing and it had never occurred to any of us.
00:39 You know, I'm very able-bodied and I'm not deaf, I'm not blind.
00:42 And so it wasn't something that had occurred to me.
00:45 And I was like, "Oh, shit. Oh, sorry. Sorry."
00:48 I was like, you know, like, I was like, "Oh, man, like, I didn't think about this."
00:53 And so it really got us thinking and it sparked so many conversations, you know, just from that one simple question.
00:59 But that's an example of how Charlie's approach is.
01:03 He's just extremely thoughtful.
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