Given Murdock’s and Fisk’s new paths, has this changed their contentious dynamic which has seen them beating each other to a pulp in the past?
“Well, he still bugs me,” quipped D’Onofrio.
“We’re trying to live in the daylight, the two of us,” he continued. “We’re broken men. If you can think about the metaphor of vampires trying to live in the daylight, it’s a struggle that they’re going through. He’s got his thing and I’ve got my plan and, you know, you can’t put us together in the same scene a lot ’cause it’s not as powerful.”
Highlighting that he and Cox only shared “five or six” scenes together over the past 10 years, D’Onofrio elaborated: “It’s great for the story [when we share scenes] because it always means something… So, it’s intense. And that’s what it’s like now”.
Cox chimed in: “Bringing us together early on in this new season is something we haven’t done before. Putting [Matt] in a position where they are having to trust one another’s ability to stay true to who they say they are, it just lends itself to a slightly different dynamic for a scene”.
