Daredevil actor Charlie Cox defends Matt Murdoch’s ‘walk of shame’ scene in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, which proved divisive among MCU fans.
Charlie Cox defends Daredevil’s controversial ‘walk of shame’ scene in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The most recent Disney+ show introduces Tatiana Maslany’s Jennifer Walters into the MCU and earned glowing reviews from critics. The show follows Walters as she attempts to balance her career as a lawyer with her ability to turn into She-Hulk, with later episodes seeing the return of Cox’s Daredevil. The version of Daredevil featured on the show is noticeably lighter and more comedic than the version seen in the character’s Netflix’s series, which proved somewhat controversial among fans.
Daredevil and She-Hulk quickly strike up a romance in the show, and one particularly funny scene features Cox’s hero walking home the morning after a night of passion. In a recent interview with Digital Spy, Cox admits that he was unsure how fans would receive the lighter Daredevil and his ‘walk of shame’ scene, but explains that it was ultimately exciting for him as an actor to explore this new side of Matt Murdoch. Check out Cox’s full comment below:
“There are things that you do when you’re playing a superhero. There are scenes that you read, and you go, ‘The fans are going to love this. This is knock-out’. And then there’s stuff like the walk of shame, where you’re like, ‘I don’t know. This could go two ways. This could be something that the fans really enjoy, and it could be something that feels like it goes against the nature of what they love about the character and the tone of the piece’.
“The good thing about doing it on something like She-Hulk is, it’s not Daredevil’s show. It was my job as the actor to come onto another person’s show and embrace the tone, whilst staying as true to the character as I possibly could. In this world, Matt’s in LA, and he lets his hair down a little bit. He’s just having fun. He’s killing it in the courtroom. You know, he has a fling with a really beautiful and charismatic lawyer. And then they get to do some superhero stuff.
“It felt very different from everything I’ve done as that character, but that was also really exciting and new and different and in keeping with the character. If you read the comics, there are a series of Daredevil comics where the tone is much lighter, and he is much more kind of silly and goofy than perhaps we’ve done much of previously with this character. You can’t please all the people all the time. If She-Hulk’s not your thing, then don’t watch it. Watch something else.”
Why Daredevil: Born Again Could Be Very Different From She-Hulk
Cox’s version of Murdoch was first seen in Netflix’s Daredevil, which ran for three seasons from 2015 to 2018. The show was dark in tone, featured graphic violence, and Cox’s character was far more brooding than he is in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. While Daredevil’s time in the MCU so far, which includes a brief cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, has been fairly light and comedic, it’s not a guarantee that Daredevil: Born Again, the upcoming Disney+ reboot show, will feature that same tone. Netflix’s take on the character featured a lot of brutal hand-to-hand combat, and some of Cox’s preparation for his upcoming show suggests it may retain some of that visceral fighting style.
Production on Daredevil: Born Again is not expected to start until early next year, but Cox previously revealed he is training with an MMA fighter in order to prepare for the show. Images have since been released showing some of Cox’s training, and it certainly appears that the actor is gearing up for a level of fighting that could be in the same vein as the Netflix show. Cox’s training, in conjunction with his comments that the version of Daredevil featured in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is more laid back because he’s on vacation, suggest that the hero’s upcoming Disney+ show may go back to featuring a slightly darker take on the fan-favorite hero.
That being said, Daredevil: Born Again will take place in the MCU where there is generally little in the way of graphic violence. It’s possible that the show will be the first TV-MA-rated Disney+ Marvel show, but it’s more likely that it will split the difference and offer up a version of the hero somewhere between his Netflix incarnation and how he was portrayed in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. With Daredevil: Born Again not expected to release until early 2024, it will likely be a long while before fans actually get a closer look at what is to come from Cox’s hero.
Source: Digital Spy
