*SPOILER ALERT* Daredevil co-stars Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Kingpin) relive some big moments following the release of Daredevil: Born Again. Watch as the duo break down everything from fight scenes to Charlie’s appearance in Spider Man: No Way Home.Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again is now streaming on Disney+.
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00:00Hi I'm Charlie Cox. I'm Vincent D'Onofrio. And this is our GQ Action Replay of Daredevil.
00:05Press play. Come on. Let's get cracking. All right.
00:21First of all you see that microwave that hits the guy in the head. I've signed about 10 microwaves.
00:27Oh really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Obviously that is a very special moment. We shot it very early on.
00:34So it's the end of episode two but I was really still playing catch up on terms of all of the
00:39stunts and getting used to kind of doing some martial arts and was not really in a position
00:44to do much of that particular fight because it all takes place as a one-up. And on one of the
00:48early takes like I swung a punch and I caught my little finger on the pole. I got injured in that
00:54fight. And Chris is doing like a hundred moves over the course of the day.
01:03The little boy had to go home. He wasn't allowed to be there anymore. On one of the final takes we
01:08did the whole sequence. It worked out great. I got into the room to get the kid and it's
01:12one of the ADs. Like a 28 year old with a headset. So I had to pick him up and carry him out
01:18as a kind of a placeholder. Oh they should have called me. I could have got there. He would have
01:23opened the door and I would have been there. I would have liked to have seen that. Yeah.
01:27I think you know. You've been asking about me. I thought it was time we spoke. Say your name.
01:36You first. He's talking to me on the walkie and I'm off camera. And we'd never work together.
01:43So I had no idea whether he could have been the shittiest actor I'd ever worked with.
01:48And so I was hiding behind some crates or something doing off camera so he couldn't
01:52see me but I could see him. And we're talking and he's like doing really good with the dialogue
01:56and stuff because he's you know he's a great actor. Your conviction. Even if it runs counter
02:03with my own. Keep telling yourself you've won. It'll make what I'm going to do to you so much
02:08more satisfying. This is Kingpin and Daredevil and it's going to be great. And it was my first
02:13real feeling of my god we're going to be okay. You know because Daredevil works you know.
02:19It was amazing. You really think that this will change anything?
02:30You think one man in a silly little costume will make a difference?
02:50We shot it for real in the studio do you remember? Yeah. We did it all on location first. So cold.
02:56And then that last stunt you had to get like a lot of air. Remember you came down on me with
03:00that last stunt? Yeah yeah that's right they built a little ramp. Yeah yeah yeah yeah it was
03:04magnificent. So cool to be on my end sometimes even though my face may not look like it or my
03:10attitude may not seem like it but you know I'm watching Charlie like fly through the air at me
03:15it's fantastic. You've just seen the Daredevil suit for the first time. I always thought that
03:20was really cool that they did that the writers did that in the first season is they held that
03:24for so long for you know 12 and a half hours. Yeah. They held the the iconic red suit. That
03:30iteration was not comfortable. Show me your hands. I told you before sergeant I'm not the bad guy.
03:38And it was quite a fight scene. We also lost a bunch of it. There was a whole middle portion
03:42of that fight that they couldn't we lost we ran out of time. Yeah yeah. And we had to cut it. Don't
03:46you pick me up? Yeah. And body slam me? Yeah. Fun. Yeah. Not bad. Thanks. I guess I uh guess I was wrong.
03:59About? About you being a pussy? Don't get all sweet on me now Frank. First of all I have to
04:06start by just saying like John's performance in this scene is is brilliant but the story here is
04:11when the scene had been edited the episodes were coming in one of the producers came up to me and
04:15said oh my god that scene with you and John in the cemetery is so good and I'm like oh cool because
04:20it's all John. I'm like great good for him you know what I mean I'm just listening and they're
04:24like in the bit when you're like and he's telling you the story and you're crying and I was like
04:28huh I remember crying in that scene. I was like okay I don't remember that and I feel like I would
04:34remember that. Anyway when I went back and watched it I remembered that before we get into that
04:40position I'm carrying John Bernthal up a hill over and over again so I'd be putting him down
04:46and all I'd be thinking is try not to breathe too heavily during his dialogue so I am sweating
04:51profusely under this helmet and evidently some of the sweat has kind of obviously trickled down the
04:58mask and then it's coming out. Oh my god. It looks like it looks like I'm like shedding tears. I had
05:04no idea. And then when I told that to John and he's like that's what that was he was like I
05:09remembered I was thinking man this guy's crying in my scene. He thought you were upstaging him.
05:16Yeah. Whenever we see him on the course you whenever they've got him back into such a delight.
05:22You screw with me now just a little bit and you'll never really be with your one and only Vanessa
05:28ever again.
05:34Speak her name again. Go ahead.
05:41Yes a son of a boxer. The way that the structure of this scene was I come in I say my bit and you
05:48basically quiet and then you do your bit and your bit you you lose it and when it turned on to
05:53Vincent before we roll camera he's turned to the director and said I'm going to kind of go in and
05:58out a little bit. I'm not going to necessarily say all the dialogue in order. I will get through it all.
06:03Do not cut and you'll get everything you need. So it's basically conjure up a bunch of you know
06:10events from your own life that cause you anger or frustration or make you get that feeling like
06:15when somebody does something you know says something verbal to your family or something
06:21you think about those events in your life that you just want to kill somebody but you know you can't.
06:26You get there and you ride that emotion like a wave but the thing about waves is they dissipate
06:31so you have to catch another wave. So instead of cutting I would just get back to my own personal
06:38stuff and then get on that wave again and then start again.
06:42Come on. Kill me. No. God knows I want you but you don't get to destroy who I am. You will go back to prison
06:51and you will live the rest of your miserable life in a cage knowing you'll never have Vanessa.
06:58That this city rejected you. It beat you. I beat you. I don't think I'll ever forget that scene
07:06just because of Charlie's performance in it. He was so mad. So I don't have anything to say other
07:11than Charlie's a really good actor and he was able to get me where I needed to be because of his
07:18performance. My performance was raised to his level in that part of the scene there.
07:23Throughout that whole season the writing that would come in was immaculate and I almost had no
07:29notes really for Eric. Me too. But with that speech we did go back and forth a number of times.
07:35My difficulty with it in its first iteration was I'd come to realize I was not going to end his
07:41life but I was telling him that he was going back and my problem with that was he's already been
07:45there and it didn't work. It didn't make sense to me. So we reworked some of the scenes. We added
07:52the line I beat you. The understanding for that scene had to be that the anger was as as much
07:58towards myself as it was towards him. The real hatred is is kind of self-hatred. But super super
08:05deep. Also you may know my and you can hear my voice has gone. Yeah. What is happening?
08:11That's great. Thank you. Well I have some good news Peter. I don't believe any of the charges
08:15against you are going to stick. Wait seriously? Oh I knew it. Oh my god Mr. Murdoch thank you.
08:21That's thank you. That's amazing. You're welcome. Perfect. However Mr. Hogan. Yes. The feds are
08:27actively investigating that missing technology. There is still a court of public opinion.
08:41How did you just do that? I'm a really good lawyer. I was in the theater when the fucking
08:47audience went crazy. I got to Atlanta. I'm still in the middle of COVID. So I had to do the two-week
08:53isolation. So I got to the hotel and I texted my friend Andrew Garfield who I knew was in the film
08:59or it was rumored he was in the film and I was like I think we're doing a film together and so
09:03he wrote back no I don't think so buddy I'm doing SM and I'm like yeah we're doing a film together
09:09and he's like no no I'm doing Spider-Man and I'm like I'm also doing Spider-Man and then he writes
09:14back you're not in my script. I'm like well I'm in mine. To hear the reaction of you meant that we
09:22are on their minds. Yeah you know what I mean? Yeah totally. It's really cool because I'd never
09:26had that experience before and I didn't know how far we had reached with our show. So I was told
09:32by Marvel you know like make sure you go on the first weekend it's going to be so exciting the
09:36reaction to you it's a big secret everyone's going to like freak out. I live in Connecticut
09:41so I contacted a you know like a movie theater like complex and Marvel helped me out and like
09:48got hold of the manager can you sneak me in the back so that I can be there on the opening weekend
09:52so my wife came with me and like she's filming my reaction nothing dead. Oh no. Honestly I think I
09:59remember one guy went oh cool and that was it and then my wife's filming I'm like turn off the
10:04camera. She's so good. She's so good. What a surprise.
10:22Maya. You and I were family.
10:27Family. Family. Sometimes family doesn't see eye to eye.
10:39I knew that I was going into a different tone but it's my job as an actor to service the story
10:44that's how I was brought up and taught and so I just went with it this whole other different tone.
10:50I had a great time doing it and I got to meet Alecra Cox who I thought was amazing you know
10:58and it was on that show that somebody whispered a little something into my ear
11:03about her having her own show eventually that really excited me.
11:13That sequence with bullseye was one of the most complicated especially that bit in the in that in
11:18the stairwell was one of the most complicated because I'm having to react to knives that
11:24aren't real. Normally you throw a punch they react they punch you you can see the punch you
11:31can see the kick you know where it lands you're able to react to it. I was having to learn the
11:37choreography of my attacking moves and the knives I was taking whatever it was like punch punch knife
11:43knife punch miss knife you know what I mean like it was just so many extra beats. The thing that
11:48we've done with this new show which is 90% of our sequences are practical so I'm learning them
11:55stunt doubles learning them and we are shooting them in camera. Most of the computer generated
12:01images are the removal of a wire maybe but there is this five percent that in order to pay homage
12:09to the to what the character can do in the comics we need a little bit of help.
12:18So with that stuff we've never done yeah we've never been able to do that little bit and that
12:29ingredient for our new show is so cool it's so cool it's so cool. That's what you get when you
12:34work for the MCU and it's just finding the right moments and so like in this sequence here bullseye
12:39comes up the stairs he exits onto the roof and then in the background I just suddenly appear and
12:43the speed at which I'm there and the pose that is struck there's a little like peppering of
12:50super human-ness superhero-ness you know if you love these characters it does get your juices
12:55running a little bit it's exciting. You're keeping tabs on me. No I'm not I'm just
13:00call it professional curiosity. Ah what profession would that be? I'm a lawyer.
13:07I'm a big football fan. Soccer. If you support a team and you have
13:11your biggest rivals if you could wish them to into non-existence would you? And I think the
13:17answer for most people would be no. That rivalry is imperative is important to the fabric of your
13:22team and I think sometimes these two feel that way about each other even maybe unknowingly.
13:27They kind of need each other. You're a real man of the people now. A rich man by his very nature is
13:32self-serving. A mayor serves his city. Some scenes are harder to shoot than others
13:40because of your interior is so strong. Like I remember my plan for this scene was I had the
13:48dialogue right that Dario wrote and then I had an inner monologue that I wrote that went over his
13:54lines some inner monologue over my line so I would be saying a different line in my head than I would
14:00be speaking. That's a really tough thing to put yourself through because you're reciting two
14:06pieces of dialogue simultaneously. It can be really confusing at times and I knew that all
14:12of that would work for the scene. Thanks for listening to us and watching and enjoy the show.
14:19Right? Right. Right.