Daredevil: Born Again Stars on the ‘Purely Coincidental’ and ‘Entirely Accidental’ Perceived Similarities Between Kingpin and Donald Trump

I spoke with Daredevil: Born Again actors Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock) and Wilson Bethel (Bullseye) astatine Los Angeles Comic Con this past Saturday during which clip they reflected connected however “purely coincidental” the timeliness of the archetypal play was.

Daredevil: Born Again, Season One saw a convicted felon triumph implicit voters and, erstwhile successful power, proceed to weaponize instrumentality enforcement against his enemies portion besides seeking to personally nett from his governmental position. One could beryllium forgiven for perceiving immoderate similarities betwixt the show’s villain, Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin, and the existent occupant of the White House.

“There mightiness person been a clip erstwhile a convicted felon winning a salient governmental bureau would look unrealistic – but successful 2025, it feels ripped from today’s headlines,” Joshua Yehl observed successful his Daredevil: Born Again bid premiere review. “That said, the amusement sidesteps immoderate circumstantial real-world authorities and alternatively focuses connected exploring themes of empowering bullies and the work 1 has to basal up to them.”

While the governmental timeliness of the archetypal play tin beryllium chalked up to coincidence arsenic Donald Trump had not yet won a 2nd word arsenic President of the United States, Season 2 (and Season 3, which shoots adjacent spring) are being produced astatine a clip erstwhile the President’s words and deeds predominate the regular quality cycle.

Comparisons betwixt Fisk and Trump look inescapable for the amusement going forward, adjacent though Charlie Cox told maine immoderate specified similarities betwixt the 2 men are “entirely accidental.” (It’s not the archetypal clip that those progressive with the amusement person denied that Fisk is an allegory for Trump.)

“I deliberation it's really, truly important astatine this constituent to accidental that those similarities, if radical spot them, are purely coincidental. That truly is the case,” Cox said. “If you deliberation astir it, Vincent D'Onofrio built that quality successful 2014. In 2014, if you conscionable said the sanction of the president and the connection president, you'd person been laughed at.”

Wilson Bethel concurred with Cox, saying, “That Season One of Born Again was written earlier our existent president was president. So I mean, look, what the amusement intelligibly explores successful immoderate truly profound, absorbing ways are what tin hap if excessively overmuch powerfulness gets successful the incorrect hands. You tin look into that however you will. Certainly, there's been plentifulness of examples of that passim history. But we whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium successful one.”

Cox added: “Every clip you person a country with Frank Castle successful the 10 years we've been doing it, each clip there's a scene, someone's going to say, ‘It doesn't consciousness similar it's a precise bully clip to beryllium shooting a leader who's got a gun.’ You cognize what I mean? I consciousness similar it's truly important to allow, and chuckle at, and bask immoderate coincidences that whitethorn beryllium there. But it's besides important to stipulate that they are wholly accidental.”

For much from my interview, find retired however “heartbreaking” it was for Wilson Bethel to suffer the relation of Captain America to Chris Evans.