“INITIALY LN’T THEY DO TRUST EACH OTHER”

charlie cox Is matt murdock

What’s the essential difference between the Defenders and the Avengers?

With the Avengers, there’s a pride about who they are, they’re very chest-out, gung-ho, and that’s very cool to watch. To make this work on TV, with these street-level heroes, we have to go the opposite way. We go to a place of shame, and a place of loneliness for these guys. We’re trying to find moments where Matt is essentially learning not just what these guys can and cannot do but how they deal with the same pain he deals with on a daily basis. How do they not feel like they’re freaks of nature and outcasts of society?

Are there tensions between Matt and the other characters?

A lot. Initially they don’t trust each other. It’s particularly difficult for Matt because he has a secret identity. That’s one of the things that was very hard to navigate because obviously we can’t have Matt Murdock in a mask for an entire show, because the other guys wouldn’t trust him. He would not be allowed in!

Krysten said that in a real-life emergency she would call you. Would you be good in an emergency?

If there are actually people in danger I’ll probably be very level-headed. I’ll get in a building or I’ll call 9/11, whatever I need to do… but if I can’t get cell reception? And I need to call someone? I lose my shit. So it depends on the level of the crisis!