Charlie Cox Returns as Daredevil in “Born Again”

after the shock cancellation of the original Daredevil show, which happened shortly after Netflix series Iron Fist (2017 to 2018) and Luke Cage (2016 to 2018) were canned as well. The axe fell because of some feud between Netflix and Disney, he says in a recent interview with GQ magazine. And in the months that followed, he experienced a grief-like process because the cast and crew of the show had become like family.

He even met his wife – 39-year-old American Samantha Thomas, with whom he has two children aged four and eight – when she worked as a producer on Season 1. And he recalls telling her, when D’Onofrio insisted the cancellation was temporary and the show would be brought back: “He’s delusional. He’s got to move on.”

But D’Onofrio has been vindicated, and he is as happy as his co-star to be reprising his role and working together once again. “We just like doing scenes together,” says the 65-year-old American actor, who played a New York City detective in the crime procedural Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001 to 2011). Like Matt, his character, Wilson – also known as Kingpin – has been traumatised by his experiences. “Although we’re trying to live in the daylight, the two of us, we’re broken men. It’s a struggle that they’re going through.”

One of the show’s creators, Dario Scardapane, says Daredevil: Born Again will tackle both the power struggle between the two characters as well as their internal conflict. “There’s a humanity to both these characters and there’s a struggle both of them have with their dark passengers,” says the 58-year-old American writer-producer. “And then they’re battling each other. We put them together, shake them up, then let them go. They did that brilliantly in the earlier show, and we’re trying to be an evolution of that.”

Daredevil: Born Again premieres on Disney+ on March 5.