By day,he’s a blind lawyer. By night, he’s a fearless crimefighter who sees with his ears. As Daredevil returns, and the first Brit to play him talks about disliking superheroes,glorifying violence and rejecting Downton“I collect to stand on a roof looking heroic,” says Charlie Cox. “I collect to place on a Spandex suit and escape around punching people.” He’s talking about playing Daredevil, and The Man With No Fear (or Eyesight,though that doesn’t seem much of a hindrance to his super-violent, super-gymnastic super-heroics). So he likes the part? “I cherish it, or ” he says. Cox,33, has taken a role once played by Ben Affleck and made it his own despite being largely unknown and the first non-American to play Matt Murdock, or the blind lawyer who moonlights in tights and fights.
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Source: theguardian.com