Disney+ series “Daredevil: Born Again” is renowned for its iconic hallway fight sequences, so it’s only fitting that the season concludes with another epic moment.
The episode follows Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) as he gets patched up and is running late to Karen Page’s (Deborah Ann Woll) trial after he was shot in the last episode. Heather Glenn (Margarita Levieva) and Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio), both testify in the anti-vigilante case, but Murdock steals the show as the key witness when he reveals to everyone in the courthouse that he’s actually Daredevil. When Kingpin’s case gets dismissed, he’s sued by the attorney general and told to step down as mayor — but not before he incites a riot at court. He orders his police force to march on the courthouse, while pro-Daredevil civilians put on red masks and fight back.
Action director Philip J. Silvera had three days to prep each fight: three days for Daredevil, and three days for Kingpin. He adds, “Each one of them I shot in one day.”
In designing the fight he knew that Daredevil and Kingpin share a common bond. He says, “They each love New York so much, and they want the same thing from two different sides of the same coin. And that’s the juxtaposition of these two characters.”
