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Warning: This article contains spoilers fromDaredevil: Born Againseason 1, episode 4.
Matt Murdock’s reunion with Frank Castle on the fourth episode ofDaredevil: Born Againisn’t exactly warm.
(And hello to you, too, old chum!)
Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/Punisher, Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’.Credit:Giovanni Rufino/MARVEL
It already seems to be working.
It’s no secret that Disney+‘sDaredevil: Born Againunderwent a significant overhaulafter filming six episodes.
“Ultimately, I didn’t see it.
Jon Bernthal filming on the set of ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ season 1 in Brooklyn.Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images
“It was not something I was really interested in doing.
So we had to walk away.”
And this time, they were more collaborative with Bernthal in developing the character.
Jon Bernthal at the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Gala at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.Kevin Winter/WireImage
“They really brought me into the conversation,” he says.
“We really got specific about where Frank is psychologically, where Frank’s at physically.”
You got to see to it you’re serving it.
InDaredevil: Born Again, Frank becomes the devil on the Devil’s shoulder.
Then here comes the Punisher, who is barking for Daredevil to come back out to play.
“Like that line, ‘We’re all one bad day away from being me.’
But also, Frank really has no time for the gray.
He has no time for figuring things out or obsessing over things.
Bernthal is now eager to do a lot more with this character.
The actor also says he brought back Koumalatsos as a consult.
“I went through the process,” he says.
They had read some of my writing, asked to come and do a pitch, so I did.
And they’ve held me accountable to every step along the way.
I really want to earn this and I really want this to be good.
The story that we’ve laid out is, I think, really special.
And nothing is easy and all violence has a cost, and we’re going to see that cost.
I’m grateful that they’re letting me go to the places that I really want to go.”
