Charlie Cox Says Fans Saved Daredevil With Online Campaign

By Raven Brunner @raventbrunner
Published Oct. 21, 2022, 10:49 a.m. ET

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While Charlie Cox isn’t on social media, he’s well aware of the online campaign that brought his Marvel superhero, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, back to the screen. His Netflix title show was canceled in 2018 after three seasons (despite receiving high critical reception and award recognition) and fans feared that they’d never see their favorite crime-fighting lawyer again.

However, that wasn’t the case. The character made a seamless transition from Marvel Television to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a surprise cameo in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home and then, appeared in two episodes of the Disney+ streaming series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

Now, he’s set to headline his own series on the streamer, Daredevil: Born Again, and star in the upcoming Hawkeye spin-off, Echo, alongside his Daredevil costar, Vincent D’Onofrio.

Cox told Marvel, “From my perspective, I got a phone call from Kevin Feige in 2020 saying ‘Would you consider coming back and playing the character again? If so, we’d like to put you in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and we’d like to put you in She-Hulk.”

He added, “That was what the next year of my life was going to look like, which was incredibly exciting and overwhelming, emotionally overwhelming, as you can imagine, having not heard from— not spoken to anyone or heard from anyone about the character for over two years.”

The actor acknowledged that She-Hulk writer Jessica Gao was a major part of the conversation surrounding his return, but the actor holds a special affinity for the aforementioned campaign. He said, “There’s so much I want to say. Whatever happens to my career going forward from this point on, I owe most of it to the ‘Save Daredevil’ campaign. That even when I had lost hope years ago, they did not, and they continued to campaign and support. And over the years, I’ve met many of them, and they’re such an enthusiastic, passionate crowd.”

Cox continued to share that he is “excited” for the future of the character. He expressed, “Daredevil is such an amazing character. It’s been the great honor of my career to be offered that part and to be able to play him. I’ve had such fun with it. It’s changed my life irrevocably.”

Daredevil is currently streaming on Disney+.