Daredevil Cast explains the death of Foggy in Born Again Premiere

Spoiler alert: This article contains large spoilers for the premiere of “Daredevil: Born Again”, which is now streaming on Disney+.

“Daredevil” is back, and the revival “Born Aee” certainly starts with a bang.

After having been away for almost seven years, “Daredevil: Born Again” brings the husband of Charlie Cox without fear of the normal family-friendly Disney+, without losing one of the blood or brutality of the original Netflix series. With his rebirth, the premiere of the show also says goodbye to one of the main characters in a typical violent way.

Things start a bit too happily in the premiere “Born Again”: Matt Murdock (Cox), Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) celebrate the success of their legal practice in Josie’s Bar. Foggy is chatting assistant Da Kirsten McDuffie (Nikki M. James) while Matt and Karen have their own flirtatious chatter.

Things quickly take a dark turn when sniper Benjamin “Dex” Poindexter (Wilson Bethel), now past his Comic-Book name Bullseye, returns for revenge. One of Foggy’s customers calls him frantically and apologizes to Bullseye, who focuses on foggy by a sniper rifle while he leaves Josie’s. Bullseye shoots foggy in the chest and almost takes Karen out, but Matt dives into his new Daredevil costume and fights against the murderer.

After an intense, one-shot fight scene by Josie’s bar, Matt and Bullseye go their way to the roof, while Matt is covered with daggers and his super senses used to listen to Foggy’s fading heartbeat. While Foggy dies, Rage Matt overcomes and throws Bullseye from the roof down on the street, causing the non-killing rule of Daredevil. However, the reinforced skeleton of Bullseye (which was reinforced after he was paralyzed in the final of season 3 of the “Daredevil”) allows him to survive the fall.

The death of Foggy will certainly numb ‘daredevil’ fans, and it sets the tone for the rest of the series and the life of Matt in the future.

“It’s really difficult – it’s sad,” Cox said Variety About photographing Foggy’s Death Scene. “The good news is that it must be iconic. We are back with a new show, so you have to be big, brave and daring. You have to do something else and shake things. So there must probably be a victim, and unfortunately it is foggy. It is devastating on a personal level and for the characters. I always think of Foggy Nelson as a kind of heartbeat of the MCU. We lose a lot. ”

Originally the death of Foggy took place outside the screen, but showrunner Dario Scardapane said: “If there is something that this landslide is going to happen, we have to feel it. This is more than a setting incident. This is an earthquake. This has wrinkle effects throughout the story. “

Scardapane also revealed that Cox made the most important decision for Matt to be able to hear Foggy’s heart rate as it became weaker and stopped.

After a few designs of those who had written the series: “Charlie came in and said:” What if I can hear his heartbeat all the time? “” Scarpane remembered. “” Done ” – I went back home and took it out, because that was a brilliant idea.”

After Bullseye killed Foggy, the show jumps a year ahead. Matt has hung up his daredevo horns, lost contact with Karen and still mourns the death of Foggy.

“It breaks our hearts,” said director Aaron Moorhead. “The reason that it is so violent is that the violence is grotesque and has real consequences. If there are two acts of violence, the death of Foggy will be and then Matt tries to kill someone and exceed this line, the grief must eradicate – not until the end of episode, but forever. This is the question with which he now has to struggle: the further a person who no longer believes, as a Catholic superhero, he is worthy of God’s grace. “

Elsewhere, Bullseye is on trial for the murder of Foggy, while New York City Wilson Fisk (Vincent d’Onofrio) welcomes, also known as the non-very reformed Kingpin, as his new mayor. One of Fisk’s first initiatives is to fight burgilant crime fights, and he meets Matt in a restaurant to prevent him from returning as Daredevil. But at the end of the two -part premiere, Matt seems ready to bring the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen back, while he is maligning some criminals who want to scare an important witness for one of his customers.

The original “Daredevil” was known for its one-take action sequences, and the premiere “Born Again” is no exception. Matt and Bullseye brutally fight his way through Josie’s Bar while smoking floods the room and hastily leaving customers. They throw bar stools, beat each other through doors and billy club and knife change away while the action does not stop. The camera is locked up on the two hunters all the time and does not miss a second of the promotion with a cut. There is even a moment when the camera moves behind a transparent sliding door – and everything you see are the silhouettes of Matt and Bullseye before they walk and continue fighting.

“It’s so complex. The way in which the camera moved in that specific scene, compared to how we recorded other scenes, was less hectic and more on a job that pushed in. It was a feeling of approaching downfall, “said Cox. “Every department must be flawless to get it on the screen. The scene in episode 1 is long; It’s a big one.

“It is also a very emotional scene, because of the nature of what just happened,” Cox continued. “It was really nice to shoot and we had a lot of rehearsal. I think we have a whole day, maybe even more than that, to do it. It was difficult, but we knew what we did it was worth it. “

“Daredevil: Born Again” streams on Disney+on Tuesday.