We've heard quite a bit from Charlie Cox about his long awaited return as Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home at this stage, but the actor has now shared a few more details during an in-depth interview with THR.
Cox only appeared in one brief scene in the Spidey threequel, as he sat around a table with Peter Parker, Aunt May and Happy Hogan to give them some legal advice. We've heard that more scenes with the character were discussed (we may have even got to see him suit-up), and the Kin star has now revealed that the table sequence originally included a clever little nod to Daredevil - and not the scrapped Netflix series!
As many of you will be aware, Happy actor Jon Favreau played Foggy Nelson in the Daredevil movie back in 2003, and his role was going to be refenced at one point. “I don’t think they used it, but we added a little Easter egg where he goes, ‘Yeah, I’m a little foggy on how that happened’ or something,” Cox says. “That was a cool moment for me to meet him and chat about all that stuff.”
As for how the scene came about in the first place, director Jon Watts had an idea to reintroduce Murdock with a slight pause before any dialogue kicked in.
“Jon said, ‘I have built in this moment where we reveal you, and no one speaks for a few beats because the audience will have a big reaction,” Cox recalls, chuckling. “I was a bit embarrassed, like, ‘Are you sure?’ I was going with the flow, but thinking, ‘I hope it’s not a letdown.’ But I got a lot of texts from friends who were at the premiere or saw it opening weekend, who told me there was a cool vocal reaction when that scene came on. It’s a strange feeling, but I am so grateful.”
Cox will return as the Man Without Fear, we're just not sure where and when. The actor reiterated that he does know "a little bit" about his MCU future, and hopes for the chance to share the screen again with Daredevil costar Vincent D'Onofrio.
“I am imagining, I am hoping, that our worlds will collide again because the stuff we’ve done in the past was tremendous fun to do, and he’s such an incredible actor. We have to start every conversation with, ‘What do you know?’ because you have to be careful. It’s really exciting.”
Cox is expected to appear in several upcoming Disney+ shows, but northing has been confirmed just yet. Maybe we'll see Murdock and Fosk cross paths again in Echo?