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We're still reeling from that Daredevil: Born Again trailer, not least of which because we finally got to see the greatest rivals in MCU history back together again. Matt Murdock and Wilson Fisk have appeared elsewhere in the MCU, but soon they'll be sharing the screen together again in what promises to be some pretty intense scenes. Actually we know for a fact that those scenes will be intense - partially because star Charlie Cox helped make them that way.

Let us explain.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in an article published January 15, Matt Murdock actor Cox said that he took special care to make sure Fisk & Daredevil's scenes together felt particularly charged, going so far as to request script changes to a scene he felt was not fraught enough.

"There's actually an episode later on in the season," Cox said, "where in an original draft [Murdock & Fisk] had a conversation [...] I said, 'I worry that if you tell the story that we can have a conversation and walk away from it at this stage, we lose a lot of stakes.' So they found a really cool way to not have us do that."

If you're worried about this tidbit spoiling something you saw in the trailer, don't be. The diner conversation pictured above is clearly not the scene Cox is talking about here, unless things get really bloody really fast.

And if you're further worried about this being a diva-ish move from Cox (as, let's face it, some celebrities of his caliber are wont to make), don't worry about that either. Cox is correct in that keeping the stakes up between Fisk & Murdock is vital to (if not the absolute heart of) Daredevil: Born Again, as the actor lays out pretty clearly in another statement:

"I believe you have to be really careful when and how you bring these two people into the same room," he says, "because we have to feel like when they meet, it is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object [...] It has to feel like it could and will explode. The more you bring us together with no consequence, the less that illusion can maintain itself."

Yeah, we know, that sure sounds like that line from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight about the Batman/Joker rivalry. But hey, it's a prime example of a decades-long comic book rivalry brought to screen by some master storytellers, so maybe that's not an unfair comparison to make. 

Daredevil: Born Again airs on Disney+ March 4.

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