Charlie Cox may be making the rounds for his new AMC+ project Kin, but that hasn’t stopped questions about his MCU future as Daredevil. The actor made a return as Matt Murdock/Daredevil in Spider-Man: No Way Home and, of course, fans want to know when we will see him as more than a mere cameo in a future MCU project. While Cox couldn’t give specific details, he did express his desire to essentially play the character until the wheels fall off.
During an interview from the Supernova gaming and comic expo, Cox was asked about his future involvement with the MCU and he made it clear that he wants to stick around and that there are many interesting stories to be explored involving the character:
“I mean look, I feel so lucky to have been cast in that role and it is the gift that keeps on giving, I loved every single minute of making the show. And so, to be asked to come back and to be involved in any capacity is absolutely thrilling to me. And I hope, I don’t want to sound greedy, but I hope I get to do loads more. I hope I get to be involved way, way more for many years. I hope it never ends. I hope it gets to the point where people are like, ‘You are too old to be playing this part.’ I don’t know what their plans are, but yes, my hope is that I get to do as much as I’m allowed to do, and to be involved. And it’d be really fun, the one thing that being in the MCU allows that we couldn’t really do with the Netflix stuff, is that I can now interact with other MCU characters. So, that would be really cool. Crossovers is the thing I would like to do next. I don’t know what that looks like, and I don’t know what they’re planning and all that kind of stuff. But there are some really interesting stories there that I’d love for the character to explore.”
Cox also provided details about what it was like to essentially lie about his involvement in Spider-Man: No Way Home but, as it turns out, he didn’t have to do it all that long. While he did appear in the movie, he didn’t really know about getting the opportunity to return most of the time he was being asked by the press:
“It was a nightmare, I don’t think I’ve done any interviews, I still don’t know what the rules are. Obviously, it’s now known that I’m in Spider-Man. So, yeah. But more than that, I don’t know, and the little I do know, I’m obviously not going to say. But the only thing I would say is that for a long time, I was asked these questions and I genuinely had not heard anything. For years, I have been asked questions about returning as Daredevil, and the genuine truth was I 100% assumed that was gone, that ship had just sailed. I didn’t hear from any of the folks at Marvel for a couple of years. It does now look like I was lying for a long time, I actually wasn’t, I was only lying for a little bit of time. You still don’t want to spoil it for people.”
Charlies Cox seems like a truly stand-up guy and it’s cool that he will get to continue to play a character he clearly loves a great deal. What does that future hold exactly? I guess we will have to wait and see.
What would you like to see Charlie Cox do in a future Daredevil project?