Aside from his cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Charlie Cox’s Daredevil finally returned for his first major role since the cancellation of the Daredevil Netflix series. This appearance, featured throughout the Disney Plus series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, received some divisive feelings from fans. Now Charlie Cox has addressed the Daredevil backlash.
He opened up about the backlash while speaking with Digital Spy. He first began by speaking about the “walk of shame” moment.
“There’s stuff like the walk of shame, where you’re like, ‘I don’t know. This could go two ways. This could be something that the fans really enjoy, and it could be something that feels like it goes against the nature of what they love about the character and the tone of the piece.'”
With that said, he was happy to “embrace the tone” of She-Hulk, which he acknowledged was different than his previous Marvel Cinematic Universe series.
“The good thing about doing it on something like She-Hulk is, it’s not Daredevil’s show. It was my job as the actor to come onto another person’s show and embrace the tone, whilst staying as true to the character as I possibly could.”
He also explained that his character, being in LA for this series, is finally able to let “his hair down a little bit.” And, as Charlie Cox puts it, “he’s just having fun.”
“In this world, Matt’s in LA, and he lets his hair down a little bit. He’s just having fun. He’s killing it in the courtroom. You know, he has a fling with a really beautiful and charismatic lawyer. And then they get to do some superhero stuff,” he explained. “It tonally felt very different from everything I’ve done as that character, but that was also really exciting and new and different and in keeping with the character.”
Furthermore, he brought up a point that any upset fans will have difficulty refuting. Specifically, he mentions the numerous comic book appearances where Daredevil is portrayed in a much lighter way.
“If you read the comics, there are a series of Daredevil comics where the tone is much lighter, and he is much more kind of silly and goofy than perhaps we’ve done much of previously with this character.”
Charlie Cox finishes his response to the Daredevil backlash in She-Hulk with one final piece of advice:
“You can’t please all the people all the time. If She-Hulk’s not your thing, then don’t watch it. Watch something else.”
Fans can currently stream the series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law on Disney Plus. Stay tuned to ScreenGeek for additional updates regarding the Marvel Cinematic Universe as we have them.