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Charlie Cox - Daredevil - Season 1: Cut Man (2015)

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The STUNT DOUBLE for Daredevil got KO’D and came back for MORE! 😵‍💫

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10 Questions with Daredevil Stunt Double Chris Brewster

Originally posted in full on our Instagram page on April 26, 2020 for our #SaveDaredevil 10 Questions series, where we ask our favorite Daredevil cast, crew,...

Ended up watching this for the first time this morning, and Chris talks a lot about Charlie in it. I’d had no idea - for instance - that it was actually Charlie who’d insisted that Matt’s exhaustion should be made visible throughout the S1 hallway fight, which is such a huge part of what made it feel so grippingly realistic. As always, the amount of thought and work Charlie put into playing Matt Murdock is just tremendous. 😎❤️

(Excerpts re: Charlie)

The show has always paid close attention to the fight moves of a character. What are your personal favourite moves to do from your respective characters?

My answer is going to seem really lame...the reason that my answer is going to be lame is because every single move that we do as Daredevil is my favourite. Reason being, the moves that we do on the show are more than just moves. A lot of the time choreography feels like choreography; it feels like you’re just doing a dance, which is fun and it’s really cool and dynamic and exciting to watch, but I think there’s truly something special about when the movements tell the story. 

And every single step of the way in Daredevil, there’s a lot of thought put into the movements in the show, from the writing to the choreography and Charlie’s always really, really on point about the thought process that goes into the movements, and he’s always really quick to bring up, “Why would I turn and do this move when I don’t see?” I’m not looking for the move; I’m reacting before I have to look at it. So there’s just a lot of really, really cool, clever, small movements in every fight that, to me, make it a lot deeper and a lot more exciting than just typical choreography.                     

Did you communicate a lot about the mood of the character before the stunt scene?

Absolutely. I believe I had more interaction with Charlie regarding what Matt Murdock was feeling throughout every piece of action more than I’ve ever had with any actor on any project. And I think that shows. Charlie really, really put a lot of thought into where he was at every moment of every piece of action, so if we choreographed something that was really dynamic and exciting, but didn’t really match the tone going into it, he would let us know, “Hey, you know, the scene started off...” A great example of it is the first hallway fight from season one. 

We choreographed an awesome, awesome fight, and Charlie looked at it and loved it, but he was like, “The episode starts off with him bleeding in a dumpster. He’s definitely not at 100%.” So he’s like, “Throughout this fight, I want for people to feel how tired and fatigued and basically on his last limbs he was.” And that’s really what made the fight so good.

So the communication as far as the character, the mood, the tone, that was there for every piece of action, whether it was one move or a thousand moves. There was a lot of thought put into it. 

What’s your fav stunt you did and the most impressive one Charlie did himself? 

.....In three seasons of Daredevil, and a season of Defenders, I am fully convinced that Charlie can do absolutely anything. And, uh, don’t tell too many people, but he doesn’t need a stunt double. He could absolutely do all of his own stunts. 

Some of the most incredible things he did: There’s a move called a palm spin. It’s a free running move that a lot of parkour and tricksters and lots of people learn, but it’s not an easy move. You basically jump at a wall with your hands like this, and then your hands stay where they are, and your body spins around you hands, so it’s like doing a side flip with your hands in place on a wall. Charlie learned that move in about thirty seconds. 

We were in a room of stunt people, and he didn’t believe how impressive it was, and I asked if anyone else in the room could do that move. There was, like, one other person out of the thirty stunt people that can actually do a palm spin. So that was really, really impressive, but even more impressive than that... 

There was a fight - season three, episode eleven or twelve - when Matt Murdock and Ray are making their way through the traffic jam. Charlie and I thought it would be really funny to have Matt Murdock fight the biggest person in the short bus. And so at the end of the entire fight, we fight a 6′10′’ henchman in this tiny little school bus. And, mostly as a challenge to myself, I put in the choreography a Webster axe kick, which is basically a front flip with an axe kick, just to see if I could do it in a tiny condensed space, and I was able to pull it off. 

Well, Charlie saw me do that, and he was like, “Mmm, do you think I could do that?” And, you know, again, Charlie can do anything, so it took us about five minutes for him to learn how to do it, and if you actually watch that fight it’s Charlie doing that move. He throws a front flip in a space that’s so narrow your shoulders have to kind of squeeze in between the two seats, and he throws an axe kick where if he kicked any higher he would have kicked the ceiling, and if he kicked any lower, he wouldn’t actually have done the move. So that was the most impressive move he did. But again, there’s quite a list. 

What are your favourite memories working with Charlie and Elodie and each other? 

it was actually the first piece of action we all did together. In season two episode five, I believe, the first time we actually see Elektra, Matt is in Fogwells, just kinda training, and Elektra shows up and they have a very flirtatious sparring match. That was really, really cool, because [of] seeing all of the dynamics work out for the first time. 

Lauren and I have worked together for over a decade. I’ve known her for a really, really long time. We’ve been friends forever, but it was really cool working together as these characters for the first time. It was also the first time I’d met Elodie, so seeing how she interacted both with me and Charlie was awesome. And it was just a really cool way to get to know each other really fast, and it was a really fun scene. You know, you get so used to kicking and punching and taking big, huge reactions that changing it just a little bit and having a fun sparring match as opposed to a fight-your-life kind of fight, was a fun little change of pace. 

Which hallway fight was the most fun to film?

Definite tie between season one and season three. Season one will always hold a special spot in my heart, because it was the first one. 

.....[In] season three, it was really fun to know that we had to not only match what we did in season one, but beat it. And what was really exciting about the season three prison fight is that you could actually see the results of three, four years of Charlie training and playing Matt Murdock and Daredevil and just the team being together for that long. It was really, really incredible. 

I have to admit Charlie did 90% of that fight, so what was really, really fun for me was doing my part of the fight and then sneaking around getting to the monitors and watching Charlie perform the rest of it. And when we finished the third take, which was the final take, we had about forty people crammed in the room with the monitors, and the second we finished, all forty people just [had a] big group hug, and it was just a really incredible experience. 

Chris, what was your first impression of Charlie?

Well, the day that I met Charlie, season one, our first scene together was just a hitting a heavy bag scene, so it was a good way to ease into the action. When I found out that I was going to be doubling him, I did some research and I watched Stardust and Boardwalk Empire. And at first I thought that Charlie was a skinny guy. You know, he looks like he used to carry himself around 160 or so, and when he walked in for his first day of filming, he came in just super, super fit. I mean, he had to be 180,185 pounds of solid muscle. So, my first impression was, “Oh crap! I better start doing some curls.” 

I went over on the side and grabbed some sandbags and started lifting to try catching up to him. And when he first started hitting the heavy bag, I was all ready to start coaching him along the way, because a lot of actors don’t have that much experience with martial arts stuff, but Charlie cheated. He had a personal trainer that was not only teaching him how to lift and everything like that, he also was teaching him boxing, so when he walked up to the heavy bag, right off the bat he just started wailing on it, and I was like, “This is going to be a fun show.” 

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‘Daredevil’ Stunt Double Chris Brewster on Bringing ‘Impossible’ Fight Scenes to Life

In Netflix and Marvel’s “Daredevil,” viewers never question the idea that a blind lawyer can go toe to toe with mobsters, assassins and crim

When the series starts, Matt is only just beginning his vigilante career, so you get to see his fight style develop over the course of the season — how would you describe his evolution?

"You get to watch Matt evolve into Daredevil. There are flashbacks that go back to literally the first time he put on a suit and was a vigilante. It all follows along with the story, and Charlie literally took the comic book story and made it come to life because in the early-on action scenes he’s fighting with his heart, and that’s it. He doesn’t have any amazing techniques. You know he’s been trained and you find out later on who his instructor is and who really did most of his training, but he’s not fighting as a technician. He’s not fighting like assassins or superheroes fight. He’s fighting with his heart. He is just trying to do good and take out the bad guys."

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Loki production recap

A general recap of what we learned about the production over the past year... including rumours and speculation.

Just wanted to put through a quick re-cap of what’s been covered on this blog over the past year or so...

Officially confirmed by Marvel

Tom Hiddleston returning as Loki 

Kate Herron directing

Michael Waldron as showrunner head writer

6 x 1hr episodes

Airing in June 2021

Confirmed by the trades and the actors themselves

Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Judge Ravonna Renslayer

Richard E. Grant -Classic Loki

Confirmed by the trades, and we’ve seen them on set

Sophia di Martino - Sylvie

Owen Wilson - Mobius M. Mobius

Semi-confirmed through media mentions, but they won’t talk about it

Wunmi Mosaku (possibly a character named Hunter B-15)

Sasha Lane - Hunter C-20

Seemingly confirmed by IMDb listings

Cailey Fleming as Young Sylvie

Chris Brewster as a Minuteman (and Stunt performer)

Isabelle Fretheim as a Minuteman (and Stunt performer)

Michael Rose

Lucius Baston - Male Shopper

Aaron Beelner as Robot Scanner 

Natalie Holt as composer

Reese Giles as TVA Office Employee

Alexandra McGuire as Airline passenger

Almost confirmed (IMDb post removed; were in Atlanta this fall)

Deobia Oparei - Boastful Loki

Derek Russo - Hunter U-92

Not confirmed but were in Atlanta and SM follows indicate they were probably involved in the show:

Jack Veal - Kid Loki

Neil Ellice - Hunter D-90

Jaimie Alexander, presumably as Lady Sif

Strong maybe

Asano Tadanobu, possibly as Hogun

Time frames (from casting calls and film permits)

1960s

1970s

1980s

2050

MCU things referenced in various photos/videos

TVA

Roxxon

Minutemen

Rumours

Loki has two love interests

Multiple Lokis

So, hopefully we’ll have some of these confirmed today... and maybe a few character names attached?? If we’re lucky. 

Just wanted to get these out there, before the Investor call and any other news outlets. 

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We're so excited to announce a NEW guest to #SaveDaredevilCon: Chris Brewster! Come hang out with Chris on Thurs 7/23 at 12pm PT (3pm EST) during a very special YouTube livestream. He's ready to chat about everything stunts and answer your burning questions about Daredevil!

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I’m dead from those biceps.