“Just want to make sure that you don’t think this is one of those cameo-every-week types of shows,” the self-aware, fourth-wall-breaking Jen Walters (Tatiana Maslany) warned viewers in episode 3 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.
Of course, there has been one major cameo that the series has teased since its Comic-Con trailer: Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil, who was seen tussling with his fellow lawyer-superhero at the preview’s close. The beloved comic book character finally showed up in the latest episode — the eighth of the season’s nine-installment run. There’s a fight, sparks flying, a blooming professional partnership, too.
Daredevil’s inclusion has generated plenty of anticipation from Marvel fans (and maybe a little too much excitement — OK, a lot too much excitement, at its prospect). But there’s also been a segment of the MCU fanbase that’s complained that Murdock — who falls on the more serious side of Marvel heroes — won’t at all jibe with She-Hulk’s lighthearted, quippy sitcom tone.
That debate continues post-airing, but we will tell you what Charlie Cox, the British actor who played Murdock on Netflix’s MCU series Daredevil from 2015-2018 and made a (comedic) cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, thinks of it all.
“I knew I was doing one or two episodes in the She-Hulk show, and I read the scripts and tonally it’s completely different from anything we’ve ever done,” Cox told Yahoo Entertainment at Disney’s D23 Expo in September (watch above).
“But I feel like I’ve played this character long enough to have earned the opportunity to experiment for one episode. And if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work.”
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Cox will soon get his own series, 2024’s Daredevil Born Again, which was just announced at Comic-Con in July and is still in the early stages of development.
“Not knowing what our tone is gonna be, but knowing that we’re on Disney+ and therefore could be different, I thought [She-Hulk] would be a really good opportunity to find a tone that is consistent with some of the runs of the comic, where Matt Murdock/Daredevil is a little bit more lighthearted, he’s a little bit more tongue-in-cheek and playful and silly.
“And of course if you don’t do that, if you come into a show like She-Hulk and you don’t do that, you become the butt of the jokes. You’re too serious, you’re not [playing along]. So you’ve got to kind of adapt to the world a little bit, and the tone a little bit.”
—Video produced by Jen Kucsak and edited by Jason Fitzpatrick
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is now streaming on Disney+.
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