Sure, Charlie Cox will tell you which Daredevil episode he thinks sucked

Only one episode of the original shoot of Daredevil: Born Again made it to the revamped version, and Cox wasn't a fan.

By William Hughes | May 7, 2025 | 10:55pm

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Sure, Charlie Cox will tell you which Daredevil episode he thinks sucked

Charlie Cox has not been shy, in interviews, when it comes to the minor revolt he and co-star Vincent D’Onofrio pulled on the set of Daredevil: Born Again—both actors (politely, by all accounts, but sincerely) vocalizing concerns with how the attempt at a lighter, more comedic Daredevil ran counter to the many years of work they’d previously done together on the Netflix Daredevil series. (Which, in turn, led to Marvel firing the show’s previous showrunners during the 2023 strikes, replacing them with a new crew, and repurposing the existing footage into a darker, more familiar show.) But Cox isn’t afraid to be vocal about the series that actually came out, either, per a new interview with The Playlist: He reveals that one particular installment was, at the time of filming “my least favorite of the episodes, and I kind of pushed back against it as much as I felt was possible.”

The episode in question: Bank heist semi-comedy “With Interest,” which, Cox reveals, was the one episode of the original run of episodes that was brought forward, unaltered, into the rejiggered version of the series. “I said, ‘I don’t believe in a bank heist in 2025,'” Cox recalls. “‘That feels like a 1970s game. 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. I really pushed back on the episode.”

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Cox tells the anecdote, not to flex, but to point out that he’s not the end-all be-all barometer for what makes good Daredevil, noting that, “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.” (That being said, we will note that Cox’s take on the episode lines up in many ways with Jarrod Jones’ review for us—which, among other things, notes how much of the episode, which co-stars Ms. Marvel‘s Mohan Kapur, feels like it’s been imported from that earlier version of the series. Which, turns out, is exactly what happened.)

[via The Wrap]