Ten years ago, actor Charlie Cox put on a mask to play a Marvel acrobatic superhero in the three -season “Daredevil” series, based on the street guard committed to keep New York City safe.
Now, spectators can see Cox repeat their role as rupture at the premiere of two episodes of the series “Daredevil: Born Again”, which was broadcast on Tuesday in Disney+.
The debut season of nine episodes “born again” continues the story of Matt Murdock, a lawyer who was blinded when he was a child in a chemical accident. This tragedy gave him supernatural skills, which he uses to combat crime under Daredevil alias.
“He has the unique ability to recognize when he is being carried out in the wrong direction: I think he will do anything to protect the city and his particular community from being carried by that path,” Cox said in an interview with NBC News.
At the end of the third season of “Daredevil”, Daredevil had forced the head of organized crime Wilson Fisk (played by Vincent d’Onofrio) back to prison.
“Born Again” will face Daredevil against a much smarter Fisk, than fans commonly know as the Kingpin, who successfully reinvented himself as the main candidate in the elections of mayor of New York City. It is so much that the slogan “Fisk can fix it” becomes widely popular.
While his character is notoriously feared as a villain, Fisk’s love for New York City is as convincing as Daredevil’s, D’onofrio explained.
“I would say that unfortunately to Daredevil, Fush feels the same, that he loves the city and believes that he is the one who will solve him. And I think it means, ”said D’Onofrio in an interview. “What you are not doing is complete your agenda in public. He is not talking about what the rest of that agenda is. And that is to stretch its scope, control. “
Put the mask again?
In the first episode of “Born Again”, Murdock has renounced crime fights such as Daredevil to support the police and the judicial system.
But with 3 out of 10 people who abandon police force and a traumatic event in the first episode, Murdock will have to consider putting the mask again in a city where Fisk is wrongly criminalizing the superhero guards.
One of them is White Tiger, the innovative Latin Marvel character played by the late actor Kamar de los Reyes, who died of cancer on the eve of Christmas in 2023. Of the kings he plays Héctor Ayala, who faces the aka of Tigre Blanco with an amulet that gives him super -powered.
“Kamar did such a beautiful job. There was so much humanity in his performance. He also brought a large part of his culture to the character, ”said Cox. “I would really want him to have the opportunity to see his performance in him because I think he will be iconic.”
Fans will recognize the Puerto Rican actor as the detective Antonio Vega of the long soap opera ABC “One Life to Live”, as well as the voice and face of the memorable video game character of OPS Raúl Menéndez.
In “Born Again”, viewers will first see Héctor Ayala/White Tiger walking towards a subway platform. After a confrontation with the police, he is accused of murder.
For Cox, White Tiger was also a story that wanted to bring to the series.
“When I got this role for the first time in 2014 and began to read Daredevil Comics for the first time, one of the stories I really responded from the beginning was the white tiger test,” Cox said. “It is very fascinating to witness a character like Matt Murdock, a lawyer and also a superhero, defend another superhero.”
Bill Mantlo and George Pérez created White Tiger in 1975. Seeing the character half a century later on the screen will give many Marvel Latin fans a lot of recognition, according to the author and scholar of the comic Frederick Luis Aldama.
“Why is white tiger important? Because he changed for Marvel in the way the Latin characters were returned to life, ”said Aldama. “It was not stereotypic. It had complexity. And naturalized the way we talk. It was not from the perspective of a stranger or a stereotype of Spanish speaking. “
The possibility of who will continue with the legacy of the white tiger after the kings also has buzzed fans.
“We all know that Kamar, the actor who played Héctor Ayala, unfortunately died. So, maybe the mantle will be delivered to his niece as they did in the comic? Or his younger sister? We will see, “said Aldama, who was planning a” Daredevil: Born Again “watches party at the reception of Bipoc Pop, an annual exhibition of comics and arts in Austin, Texas, Thursday.
