Daredevil received accolades for its gritty take on the Marvel universe when it debuted on Netflix in 2015. The now-iconic hallway fight sequence from season one, episode two of the series is the best example of how it didn’t hold back when it came to displaying violence. In the scene, Charlie Cox’s character Daredevil/Matt Murdock takes on three thugs by himself in order to save a kidnapped child. The amazing stunt choreography and the fact that it was captured in a single shot make the scene extremely unforgettable.
In a recent interview with GQ to promote Daredevil: Born Again, Cox shared his thoughts on filming the fight scene with co-star Vincent D’Onofrio. “First of all, you see that microwave that hits the guy in the head?,” the actor said, referring to a scene in which Daredevil uses a microwave to kill one of the thugs. I have signed around ten microwaves. After that, the actor went on to describe the “very special moment:”
“We shot it very early on, so it’s the end of episode two, but I was really still playing catch up in terms of all of the stunts and getting used to kind of doing some martial arts and was not really in a position to do much of that particular fight, ’cause it all takes place as a oner. And on one of the early takes, like I swung a punch, and I caught my little finger on the pole. I got injured in that fight scene.”
However, Cox claims that there were other hiccups during filming besides his injuries. According to him, “the little boy had to go home” as he “wasn’t allowed to be there anymore.” As a result, Cox described the amusing change the production crew made: “We performed the entire sequence on one of the last takes. It went really well. When I entered the room to get the child, I discovered that it was one of the ADs, a 28-year-old who was wearing a headset. As a sort of stopgap measure, I had to take him up and carry him out.” There will inevitably be issues when filming a sequence this complicated. This was particularly true for Daredevil because Cox was fresh to stunt work. Given that he continued to film and that the final shot doesn’t show the youngster being replaced by an adult, it appears that his injuries was mild. “They should have called me, I could have gotten there, you would have opened the door, and I would have been there,” D’Onofrio said, expressing his opinion on how he would have handled the situation. That would have been nice to see.
Even though it’s funny to see Cox holding D’Onofrio like a kid, Daredevil’s corridor sequence is perhaps one of the finest TV feats ever performed. This has led to the creation of comparable one-shot battle scenes with differing levels of intricacy in every succeeding season of Daredevil and its follow-up, Daredevil: Born Again. The scene was also mentioned in Daredevil’s appearance on She-Hulk: Attorney At Law. The hallway battle is the most memorable sequence during Cox’s time as Daredevil because it effectively established the tone for the character and the environment, regardless of how difficult it was to film. Daredevil purposefully made its stunts as violent and realistic as possible, and this sequence exemplifies why many fans found success with that strategy.
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