DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Directors On How They Reshot All Of Vanessa Fisk's Scenes And Season 2 "Resistance"

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN Directors On How They Reshot All Of Vanessa Fisk's Scenes And Season 2 "Resistance"

Daredevil: Born Again's directors break down how they approached reshooting Vanessa Fisk's scenes when Ayelet Zurer took over from Sandrine Holt and tease season 2's "resistance tale." Check it out...

By JoshWilding - Apr 19, 2025 01:04 PM EST
Filed Under: Daredevil
Source: The Hollywood Reporter

In case Hawkeye and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law hadn't made it obvious, Daredevil: Born Again was meant to be a fresh start for the Man Without Fear. Yes, some actors were set to remain the same, but for all intents and purposes, it was a reboot. 

That led to Marvel Studios casting a new Vanessa Fisk in Sandrine Holt (House of Cards). With Foggy Nelson set to die off-screen, it seems only Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Jon Bernthal were set to reprise their respective roles as Matt Murdock, Wilson Fisk, and Frank Castle. 

However, the creative overhaul led to Ayelet Zurer reprising her role as the Kingpin's wife. Holt shot her scenes as Vanessa, though we'll never get to see what the Mr. Robot star did with the character.

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Daredevil: Born Again director Jeffrey Nachmanoff confirmed they didn't keep any pre-strike footage of D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk from those interactions and instead reshot everything.

"To Marvel and the producers’ credit, they did not attempt to drop in anything. We reshot all of those scenes, so I ended up reshooting all of the scenes that had Ayelet in them. By the way, the other actress [Sandrine Holt] is a friend and was terrific. They just made a choice to go back to something that was from the original series. Ayelet is great, and it all worked out really well."

"But it’s painful for some of the people involved because there were changes that didn’t have anything to do with anyone doing anything wrong. The news from above was: 'We want to make sure these two series have more connective tissue.' And to your [opening] point, when I watched the series, I also was pretty surprised that it didn’t feel like the hodgepodge that the process was. But that’s true of many movies. You don’t know how the sausage is made, and you don’t always want to know."

Aaron Moorhead, who, alongside Justin Benson, filmed a new pilot and final two episodes, was also on hand to tease where the Man Without Fear's story goes from here. 

"The end of season one is a tragedy of some kind," he explained. "And while it’s not exactly a full-blown stand-up-and-cheer moment as there’s very mixed emotions in those final seconds, you get the sense that there’s a building of a resistance. So that is the kernel of where season two is going to go."

"The board is completely set in which Mayor Fisk has now become Kingpin again, but with New York in his grasp, and then there’s this vigilante thing that now has to go completely underground," Moorhead continued. "So that’s where we start, and we’re going to unfold all of that very, very quickly. It’s a resistance tale."

The hope is that Daredevil's resistance army will add some familiar faces like Maya Lopez and Jessica Jones, though it remains to be seen how many other vigilantes will be looking to take the fight to Mayor Fisk (where Spider-Man is in all this isn't clear). 

All episodes of Daredevil: Born Again are now streaming on Disney+. 

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 4/19/2025, 1:48 PM
they butchered the sh1t out of that b1tch.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 4/19/2025, 3:28 PM
@harryba11zack - By making her amoral... That was in season 3.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 4/19/2025, 4:30 PM
@dagenspear - in s3 she ordered the death of agent nadeem to protect her husband, she was also willing to stay behind for him when bullseye was trying to kill her. In born again she's suddenly a better kingpin despite her background being in Art, not running a criminal empire and to top it off, she turned him into the phucking Cuckpin.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 4/19/2025, 6:55 PM
@harryba11zack - All you've proven is that she's immoral, which aligns with cheating. You expect an immoral person to not be immoral or something. You seeming to be insecure about a woman being portrayed as better at being a criminal than a man is amusing to me.
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 4/19/2025, 8:42 PM
@dagenspear - "You expect an immoral person to not be immoral or something." no, I expect a character to act like their character.

"You seeming to be insecure about a woman being portrayed as better at being a criminal than a man" wrong, again Vanessa comes from a background as an "art dealer" not a crime lord, had she had some experiences in the dealings of the criminal element like Mariah Dillard or Madame Masque then I could buy her being a threat to fisk and how he runs things. But hey, if you'd prefer to just project me as a form of female wow-man hater because "female bad" "no pen1s" then thats cool to. if it makes you real good do it

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HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 4/20/2025, 2:15 AM
@harryba11zack - "had she had some experiences in the dealings of the criminal element like Mariah Dillard or Madame Masque then I could buy her being a threat to fisk and how he runs things. "

But she wasn't. Others like Luca assumed she was, but she proved him wrong.
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 4/19/2025, 1:50 PM
Born Again season 1 was middle of the road.

If season 2 doesn't get better, there won't be a season 3, at least for me.

Punisher Special Presentation is what i am looking forward to.
Wasn't there an article that it would come out this year?
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 4/19/2025, 1:59 PM
@MarvelZombie616 - Season 3? Have you seen the viewership for this trash? The Acolyte did done better and was a Disney princess. If they hadn't already been shooting season 2 which was already part of the original first season before it got split up, I doubt we'd even be getting a season 2.

thedrudo
thedrudo - 4/19/2025, 2:38 PM
@MarvelZombie616 - With how bad those streaming numbers are, I’m guessing season two will be it no matter what.

I agree though. A very mediocre season with a few highs and a lot of lows.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 4/19/2025, 3:31 PM
@HashTagSwagg - I mean villainous.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 4/19/2025, 3:53 PM
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eagc1995
eagc1995 - 4/19/2025, 3:54 PM
@MarvelZombie616 - Punisher is next year
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 4/20/2025, 12:17 AM
@MarvelZombie616 - agreed. A lot of built in excuses came along with this season
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 4/20/2025, 12:18 AM
@HashTagSwagg - it does feel like no one is watching
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/19/2025, 1:54 PM
They absolutely butchered these characters, destroying this story-line and people's faith in it.

Confirmation that the current directors are responsible for Cuckpin and the assassination of these characters.

Also, the interviews they have show how stupid they are. They think we needed to see Kingpin eating to explain why he's fat and that him being fat is a sign he's Kingpin. They don't view Kingpin as anything other than a strong fat guy.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 4/19/2025, 3:20 PM
@Scarilian - Ya got a problem with a monster getting punished.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/19/2025, 3:24 PM
@dagenspear -
I got a problem with the writing being so bad that it is a punishment for the audience to experience it.
JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 4/19/2025, 3:28 PM
@Scarilian - the only thing I didn’t like was how gory they made The Commissioner's death. It just didn’t seem in step with the rest of the series. When Kingpin killed Ben Urich was very effective at showing his brute force without the over the top gore.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 4/19/2025, 6:55 PM
@Scarilian - That has nothing to do with the writing issue there.
solskulldeath
solskulldeath - 4/19/2025, 10:53 PM
@JonAwesome - nahhh I like that gory shit. It shows how kingpin is all about.
HOTSHOT
HOTSHOT - 4/20/2025, 2:16 AM
@JonAwesome - But Fisk's first kill was long and gory too.

The reason Ben's wasn't was because at that point, Fisk being violent was the norm. What happened to Gallo was him having put off murder for a while, so the anger built up until he came back in a more explosive way.

Narratively, it makes sense.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 4/22/2025, 5:43 AM
@dagenspear -
The writing being terrible is the problem. It's insultingly easy to have a hero and a monster and have us route for the monster to be defeated simply based on the monster having a physical attribute. It's a stereotypical response from decades of media influence. As per the below, it is the writing:

@solskulldeath -
@JonAwesome -

Kingpin choose to spare this guy the entire season because Kingpin is an idiot.

Then he kills him in an over-the-top gory way in-front of a lot of people WEARING BODY CAMERAS he gave them.

It was laughably pathetic and I wouldn't be surprised if the way Matt Murdock takes him down is by leaking that footage, because it was so fricking stupid for him to do it this way.
HeavyMetal4Life
HeavyMetal4Life - 4/19/2025, 2:11 PM
Thank goodness Benson and Moorhead took over and are steering the ship! Love these guys.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/19/2025, 2:38 PM
@HeavyMetal4Life - I really hope Marvel continues to keep them around…

They have done good-great work on Moon Knight ,Loki S2 and now BA.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 4/19/2025, 2:15 PM
At least they're committed to yearly seasons. Hopefully the next is better
YonnyLayna
YonnyLayna - 4/19/2025, 2:54 PM
If Luke Cage, Jessica and Iron Fist get involved Fisk better get some power up for his taskforce maybe Nuke's pills or the supersoldier sérum from F&WS
MuadDib
MuadDib - 4/19/2025, 3:13 PM
Punisher’s scenes were the best part of this season. Def looking forward to his Special Presentation. S2 of DD needs to be on a whole new level compared to S1.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 4/19/2025, 3:25 PM
I thought the reason they couldn’t get Ayelet back was because she was busy with another show in Israel?.

If not and they recast her just because to further their original version from the Netflix show then that’s one more reason to be glad about this overhaul …

I could see that by keeping Charlie & Vincent but seemingly changing everyone else that there would be confusion about the connection or lack thereof so I’m glad they chose to move forward with the former since it gives the story more emotional impact since you have been through it with characters like Ayelet’s Vanessa , Elden’s Foggy or Deborah’s Karen & have history with them already so it hits harder then having to mourn with Matt Foggy’s off screen death considering it may or may not even have been the same actor.

Anyway , it was good to have Ayelet back as Vanessa since she shined this season I feel moreso then before having completely assimilated into Wilson’s lifestyle as The Queenpin (hints of it were already in S3).

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ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 4/19/2025, 3:34 PM
The last two episodes were fantastic; they were definitely my favorite out of the bunch. The Punisher and Daredevil dynamic is just so entertaining to watch. It's a shame Spider-Man isn't involved, because when those three team up in the comics to fight Fisk, it's great.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 4/19/2025, 4:10 PM
Still can't believe they decided to kill Foggy. That's just insane.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/20/2025, 4:56 AM
@RitoRevolto - I wasn't a fan of it when I read about the leaks beforehand, but I think it worked well in the show. And I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out he's alive and in witness protection or something
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 4/20/2025, 12:16 PM
@bkmeijer1 - I think him being alive this whole time would make it even worse. The writers gotta live with their choice or it'll just feel cheap. 🫤
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 4/20/2025, 5:30 PM
@RitoRevolto - oh yeah, I agree. This street level side of the MCU feels much grittier, so him neing alive through some funky means or even magic would take that away completely. Then again, I was proven wrong before
OrgasmicPotatoe
OrgasmicPotatoe - 4/19/2025, 11:18 PM
Just finished the season. It's good, not great. It never reached the heights of the Netflix seasons. The new side characters didn't do it for me, except McDuffie, but she didn't have much to do.

It also has a similar problem where the title character is almost absent from his own show. Don't get me wrong, I love Matt Murdock and understand the importance of the civil alter-ego, but I tune into the Daredevil show called Daredevil to see Daredevil.

I understand this is a frankeinstein's monster of a show with the 'overhaul' making it two shows in one, so I can give it a pass, but season 2 needs to be much, much better.

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