Mike Colter Talks JESSICA JONES, LUKE CAGE, & THE DEFENDERS

Started to watch the Daredevil series for the second time last night, sooooo good.

IRON FIST!!
MOON KNIGHT!!!!!
I NEED IT!!!!

@ComicsBornAndBred Most likely. Still cool though.

The more I see this dude, the more I think, "That's Cage."

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Acting over all else.

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@BabyGroot Colter is a waaaaaaaaay better actor.

He was pretty intense in the trailer.

I've never seen him in anything before but I'm now convinced he could carry his own series.

Mack from SHIELD is 'alright'.

@GliderMan I think it will look into the CRIME ELEMENT a little more personally. Cottonmouth may be a guy who's flooding Harlem with drugs and crime. More personal than DD because Luke is a real "man of the community." He's someone who knows the people personally and intimately from his past. It can also delve into the plight of ethnic neighborhoods. Marvel has a chance to delve into some DEEP territory.


Where Daredevil was The Wire on just a criminality level; displaying the corrupt cops and drug trade in a procedural method. Luke Cage is The Wire in terms of focusing on how a community is broken down by crime; the people, the infrastructure. How institutional dysfunctions are... dysfunctional in some way, and the characters are typically betrayed by the institutions that they accept because they're infiltrated by crime. An examination of the drug problem and its effect on the urban poor, examines the plight of the blue-collar urban working class. I think this show is just more subjective and community centered.

@KurtWagner1225 but did you catch the scene where he bashes the Marvel films lol

@KurtWagner1225 He obviously doesn't bash them but his character does as, you can tell already, he's very radical, anti-established Edward Snowden type

Some people have been saying Mike Colter looks "too soft" to be Cage, which sounds ridiculous considering the dude's massive, but I completely understand it. It's his face. He's got a teddy bear quality (not unlike Terry Crews), which I believe is a big part of why they chose him. Luke Cage is the epitome of the "angry black man" archetype, and Marvel/Netflix probably had a genuine concern that audiences might be scared off by a Cage that doesn't have a bit of a cuddly quality. (Introducing him first in Jessica Jones helps, too.) Borderline racist, yes, but you know it was on their minds during casting, just like they couldn't cast a Jessica Jones that was too plain-looking, even though that's an aspect of her character.