#ddba interview

“There’s a little bit of Frank in all of us; I genuinely believe that. Like that line, ‘We’re all one bad day away from being me.’ I think that Frank is seeing himself in Matt, and Matt knows that he’s seeing Frank in himself, and there’s a glee in that. But also, Frank really has no time for the gray. He has no time for figuring things out or obsessing over things. Frank really believes that the back and forth and the twisting and turning that Matt does is antithetical from his truth, and he knows it. For Frank, there’s nothing like having that bit of wisdom over Matt and torturing him about it because he knows that he’s right.”

“All I can say Frank Castle, Karen Page and Matt Murdock being in a little bit of triangle is a thing.”

“There was a scene this season, and he cares so much, he gets so into it, like thinks about it, it's almost like a pain-body. We had this scene and he called me the night before and he said: ‘Some of these lines don't make sense for me for where I’m at, I need to mess with these a little bit. Here’s what I’m gonna say, I want to say this.’ He just changed some of his lines, he had kinda written his own thing. So, I had to adapt and relearn my stuff, which I’m totally okay to do as he’s brilliant. And then we get to set and he didn’t say any of those, he just made up a whole new set of lines. And I was like, okay…!”

“The playbook is pretty well established, so when we were writing this stuff we were like, ‘Here’s what he does.’ The anti-vigilante task force is part of the comics. We built them and costumed them based on the comics. There are a few sequences that were shot a year ago that could be off the news, and it’s weirding all of us out. Stan Lee once said that he wanted to make his comic books a reflection of the world you saw outside your window. Then I also believe that what’s fun about the genre, and definitely fun in working with superheroes, is you’re dealing with huge archetypes, almost mythological characters, and that’s fun writing.”

“Jon is near and dear to my heart. It was amazing to come back and get to work with him again. I feel that whenever Frank comes into the story, hijinks ensue and in this story, that is very, very true. He comes in for a very, very particular reason, he is brought in by a very, very particular person, and I think that it will be immensely satisfying — and a bit like, ‘Oh, my God.’ Whenever you put Frank and Daredevil together, all bets are off. It’s a tornado. I mean… we broke some stuff!”

“Whenever he shows up, it’s an absolute delight, both in terms of his performance and as a human. You know, he brings such fun to the set, you know. We’re very different people in some ways, but Daredevil and Frank, much similar to one another than Charlie and Jon are. So, it’s fun to play with that and often when I’m in a scene as Daredevil with Frank, he pulls me closer to a Daredevil that I'm frightened of and excited by, you know what I mean? And I think it’s written and I think it’s baked in the material as well. So, yeah. I get excited for the man and see what he's gonna do. And hopefully we can keep having him pop up.”