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With Daredevil out now, let’s take a look at 15 things you probably didn’t know about
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Marvel’s TV series about a blind lawyer who’s also a masked vigilante.
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When Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment, Joe Quesada saw Charlie Cox on crime drama
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Boardwalk Empire, he knew he’d found the perfect actor to play Matt Murdock, and he
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rang Marvel’s Head of TV, Jeph Loeb, to tell him just that.
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At that point, the on-screen rights to Daredevil were still owned by Fox.
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It was roughly two years later that those rights reverted to Marvel Studios in late
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2012!
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When Charlie Cox first auditioned for Daredevil in New York, the mock scenes he read weren’t
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from the actual script, and his character’s name was Alex Everett, not Matt Murdock.
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The name Alex Everett was perhaps a nod to Daredevil co-creator Bill Everett, and to
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one of Daredevil’s comic book artists, Alex Maleev.
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Of course, Cox wasn’t the only actor up for the role. In fact, later when he had a
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Skype meeting with the show’s exec producer Jeph Loeb, he could actually see photos on
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the wall behind Loeb of other actors who were up for consideration! However, according to
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Cox, he couldn’t quite make out their faces!
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The comic book version of Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin, is bald, 6 foot 7 inches tall, and
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weighs 450 pounds. So, Vincent D’Onofrio, who’s 6 foot 3
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inches tall, shaved his head and gained 30 pounds to play him, taking his total weight
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to about 280 pounds. Of course, this isn’t the first time D’Onofrio’s
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gained considerable weight or shaved his head for a role.
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To play Private Leonard Lawrence in Stanley Kubrick’s war film Full Metal Jacket, D’Onofrio
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shaved his head and gained nearly 70 pounds.
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In addition to the show’s scripts, D’Onofrio found inspiration for his portrayal of Fisk
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in the work of Daredevil comic book artists and writers David Mack, Bill Sienkiewicz,
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and Frank Miller.
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At the end of Charlie Cox’s first day on the Daredevil set, Joe Quesada gave the actor
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some of his artwork as a welcoming present. The work was page 1 issue 1 of the mini-series
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Daredevil: Father, which was both written and illustrated by Quesada.
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And it was actually one of the few pages Quesada had kept from that series.
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Elden Henson, who plays Matt Murdock’s best friend Foggy Nelson, auditioned for Daredevil
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via Skype while he was in Berlin filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.
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According to Henson, the audition was a bit of a nightmare as he couldn’t get Skype
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to work on his laptop, and when he tried to Skype on his phone, there were problems with
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the sound and people kept calling him! Straight after finishing Mockingjay in Germany,
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Henson travelled back to LA where his son was born the next day, and he arrived in New
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York less than two weeks later to start work on Daredevil.
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Deborah Ann Woll had less than 48 hours between wrapping the last episode of vampire drama
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True Blood and her first day filming Daredevil. Woll, who plays client-turned-secretary Karen
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Page in the Marvel series, says the short turnaround helped take her mind off the sadness
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of True Blood ending.
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Playing Karen Page in Daredevil had a special, personal connection for Deborah Ann Woll,
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as her real-life boyfriend EJ Scott suffers from Choroideremia, a rare inherited degenerative
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disease that leads to blindness.
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Writer Frank Miller and artist John Romita Jr’s 1993 Daredevil comic book mini-series,
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The Man Without Fear, was a big influence on Marvel’s Daredevil show.
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An example of that can be seen in the black ninja costume Daredevil wears in the series.
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Costume designer Stephanie Maslansky wanted the costume to be as grounded and authentic
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as possible, and said, “It needed to be made of things that anyone could buy on the
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street, on the Internet or in an army-navy store. We wanted something that looked militaristic
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and functional, but also dramatic and […] bad-ass.”
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Before he joined the show, Charlie Cox wasn’t familiar with the Daredevil comics.
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In fact, the only comics he read when he was growing up in the UK were The Beano and The
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Dandy! But once cast, he spent a lot of time reading
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the Daredevil comics and, because of the tone of Marvel’s TV series, he found the work
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of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Alex Maleev particularly useful.
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Cox has said that if he could choose any supervillains to appear in future seasons of the show, he’d
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love to see Stilt-Man and the Jester; and he’d also like to see his character fight crime
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alongside Black Widow.
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Although Daredevil is set in modern-day Hell’s Kitchen, the show’s creative team wanted
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their version of the New York neighbourhood to be more like the grittier place seen in
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the comic books, and less like the gentrified location it is now in reality.
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So, executive producer Drew Goddard came up with the idea that, in Daredevil, New York
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City is still dealing with the aftermath of the Battle of New York that took place in
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the first Avengers movie. And that’s why, in the show, Hell’s Kitchen
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has been partly destroyed and is being rebuilt, a plot point which brings Marvel’s big-screen
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and small-screen worlds together.
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Charlie Cox had about a month to prepare before shooting Daredevil.
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Part of his prep included hitting the gym to bulk up and gain muscle so he could look
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and act the part. Cox also worked with his stunt double Chris
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Brewster and the show’s stunt co-ordinator Philip J Silvera on martial arts and boxing
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techniques including kicks, punches, and poses. According to Cox, filming the stunt scenes
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was one of his favourite parts of the show, and he was keen to do as much of it himself
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as possible. To help Cox master the routines he was allowed
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to do, the fight sequences were broken down into sets of 6 to 10 moves at a time, which
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the actor usually learned on the day of filming. Cox’s stunt double Chris Brewster has said
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that the action in Daredevil surpasses any TV show or film he’s worked on, which is
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quite something because while big action movies may shoot for many months, Daredevil filmed
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each episode in nine days.
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To further prepare for the show, Cox also worked with Joe Strechay, who’s blind and
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works at the American Foundation for the Blind where he helps prepare visually impaired people
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for employment. During his time with Strechay, Cox learned
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how to use a white cane and navigate busy sidewalks while wearing a blindfold.
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And he also learned how a blind person would find objects on a table by feeling for them.
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In fact, locating an object without using his eyesight was something Cox found quite
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difficult during filming, which meant quite a few retakes to get it right!
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To find out how his eyes should appear when he takes off his glasses or mask, Cox filmed
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some of his conversations with Strechay. By filming him, Cox noticed how Strechay’s
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eyes were often directed towards the mouth of whoever was speaking.
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So, Cox did the same with Matt Murdock in Daredevil.
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The creative team behind Daredevil approached the series as a crime drama first, and a superhero
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show second. With that in mind, they took inspiration from
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HBO crime drama The Wire as well as 1970s American movies including William Friedkin’s
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The French Connection, Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon, Francis Ford Coppola’s The
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Conversation, and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.
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Well there you have it, 15 things you probably didn't know about Daredevil!
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Now, let me know in the comments below, what do you think of Marvel’s Daredevil series
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on Netflix? And what would you like to see happen in future
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