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Marvel star Charlie Cox confirms that the MCU's iteration of Matt Murdock is the same character from Netflix's canceled Daredevil series.
Charlie Cox confirms that the MCU's iteration of Matt Murdock is the same character from Netflix's Daredevil series. Arguably the most beloved show among Netflix's own lineup of Marvel heroes, Daredevil first released in 2015 and enjoyed a successful three-season run. With Cox at the helm, the series followed the stoic and brooding attorney-at-law Matt Murdock, whose crime-fighting alter-ego, Daredevil saw him work to protect the people of Hell's Kitchen against the vicious crime lord, Kingpin. The series cancelation in 2018 initially appeared to signal the end for Cox's beloved hero, though the MCU had other plans.
Following the release of last year's Spider-Man: No Way Home, audiences were delighted when a brief cameo at the very start of the film welcomed back Matt Murdock, seemingly promising some form of future for Daredevil within the MCU. News later came that Daredevil would receive his own Disney+ series, Daredevil: Born Again, with Vincent D'Onofrio's Kingpin also set to return. Since this exciting announcement, Matt Murdock has appeared in Disney+'s She-Hulk: Attorney-at-law series, which offered a more unique and lighthearted take on the Marvel universe, with many concerned that Marvel were looking to create a whole new character with Cox's Daredevil. However, the actor has now reassured fans that this is not the case.
Speaking with EW, Cox was asked whether he has approached this character differently now that he has been fully integrated into the MCU, or whether he sees him as the same character as in the Netflix show. Cox immediately confirmed that this is the very same version of the character, before explaining how this new environment that Matt Murdock has found himself in has a lot to do with how he acts and participates. Noting the very "dark and gritty" tone of the Netflix show, Cox went on to say he has had a "really good time" exploring how Daredevil fits into this new world. Check out Cox's full quote below.
It should be and it is always the same character. The difference is just like with people, we morph and change and are very different based on what's going on in our lives. The Matt Murdock from the Netflix show, that world and what was going on for Matt meant that most of the time we were living with a man who had a huge amount of pressure and strain and tonally the show was very dark and gritty and heavy. I don't know what the new show will be like, but when I came over to do Spider-Man and She-Hulk, the tone is much more lighthearted and tongue in cheek and fun and witty and full of levity, so the hope was that Matt is able to fit into that world and participate in it without it being a different character, a different person. I certainly had a really good time exploring that, experimenting with it and seeing if it fit.
