Daredevil and Kingpin Stars Share What Their Characters Might Have Faced in The THUNDERBOLTS* Twisted Shame Rooms

Marvel fans got a pretty haunting concept dropped on them in Thunderbolts*, and now the stars of Daredevil: Born Again are weighing in with some fascinating character insight.

In the film’s final act, The Void unleashes chaos across Manhattan, trapping people in twisted “shame rooms” that force them to relive their worst memories and regrets.

It’s a brutal psychological attack, and while we didn’t actually see Matt Murdock or Wilson Fisk caught in it, it’s hard not to wonder what they would’ve experienced if they were.

That question was put to Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio, and their answers line up with what we know about these characters.

Cox immediately went to one of the most emotional corners of Matt Murdock’s life:

"I think with Matt, it would have to revolve around Foggy in some way. [There's] regret around his inability to take certain warning signs seriously and to have in place protections against something like that hurting someone that is so close to him."

Matt’s entire journey has always been tied to the people he tries to protect, and the idea that his failure to see danger coming could come back to haunt him.

D’Onofrio, on the other hand, leaned into Fisk’s very different mindset:

"I don't think there's a lot of regret in [Fisk’s] life at this point. I think eventually all of this will catch up to him and he will regret it, because it's just the human psyche.

“It has to happen. But not anytime soon, that's for sure, and I do think that he would probably harken back to the killing of his father."

That response says everything about where Fisk is psychologically. He isn’t carrying regret in the present, but it’s buried deep, waiting. And if anything could drag it out, it would be something like The Void forcing him to confront his past.

It’s also interesting to think about how Daredevil: Born Again and Thunderbolts might overlap, even if only loosely. Director Jake Schreier previously explained that Thunderbolts was designed to stay tightly focused:

"We were definitely aware of it," Thunderbolts* director Jake Schreier said when we asked if Daredevil: Born Again factored into his approach to the story.

"But we felt like the one thing that...obviously, these questions always come up in these movies of, 'Why wasn't this person there?' There are a lot of things in the world, and we always felt like our movie is so contained."

"The whole thing takes place within a matter of a couple of days, and so there's an immediacy to the threat [of The Void] and to the problem.

“So not only did we try to build a story where this particular antagonist, [the Thunderbolts] are the perfect people for it, because it's about common cause or an understanding of what that person's going through."

"I mean, no one else could even possibly get there like that," Schreier continued. "It's such a particular moment in time, and it happens so fast that those questions of martial law or this or that.

“I mean, it's all within an afternoon, and so we we could kind of not take that on and feel like it was still believable within that world, so that each story could kind of go on its own path, and wouldn't feel like they were stepping on each other."

Even though we’ll never actually see Matt or Fisk trapped in those nightmare scenarios, the actors clearly know exactly where their characters would go.

Source: The Direct