If it were up to Charlie Cox, Episode 5 of “Daredevil: Born Again” would’ve been cut.
Before the release of the Disney+ reboot, rumors spread of a first draft of the series that saw the deaths of Elden Henson’s Foggy Nelson and Deborah Ann Woll’s Karen Page happen off-screen. Obviously, the show was reworked, but in a sit-down with The Playlist, “Born Again” star Cox said the series’ fifth episode, titled “With Interest,” remained completely unchanged to his dismay.
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“I dunno if this is of interest, but I will say this amongst all of this, there was one episode we didn’t change at all,” Cox explained. “It’s the episode in the bank, and that was part of the original [shoot]. We shot that before the strike. That was part of the original [draft], and just for my money, I wasn’t into it.”
The episode in question features Cox’s Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, caught in the middle of a bank robbery while trying to get a business loan for his law firm. Cox called it his “least favorite” of the season, adding that he “pushed back against it as much as I felt was possible.”
“That feels like a 1970s game,” Cox said. “Too much technology these days for that to work. And also, I didn’t think the actual device used for the theft was sophisticated enough.”
He continued, “I really pushed back on the episode, and yet I hear from so many people that they love that episode. So, it just goes to show you just don’t know. It’s so subjective. Everyone’s taste is different. And I’ve heard that that episode is one of the highest-rated. Internally, when they do their ratings, it’s one of the highest-rated Disney shows that they’ve had.”
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