Daredevil's Wilson Bethel on How 'Heartbreaking' Yet 'Incredibly Pivotal' It Was to Lose the Role of Captain America to Chris Evans

Fans cognize histrion Wilson Bethel for his relation arsenic the villainous Bullseye successful some the Netflix and Disney+ Daredevil series, but helium erstwhile came precise adjacent to playing an wholly antithetic MCU character: Captain America.

Bethel was up for the relation of Steve Rogers successful Captain America: The First Avenger backmost successful 2010, a portion that yet went to Chris Evans. At that time, Bethel’s biggest roles were successful the HBO miniseries Generation Kill and the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Bethel took to his Facebook relationship successful March 2010 to interruption the quality that helium didn’t triumph the part, writing: “O Captain, My Captain... I americium not He... Thanks for each of the emotion & support."

I spoke with Bethel connected Saturday pursuing the Daredevil: Born Again sheet astatine L.A. Comic Con wherever helium recalled however “heartbreaking” yet yet “incredibly pivotal” not landing the relation of Cap was for him arsenic some a idiosyncratic and an actor.

Ben Poindexter/Bullseye (Wilson Bethel) successful DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN. (Photo: Giovanni Rufino)

“Well, it was yet heartbreaking. Yeah, I deliberation it came astatine a juncture of my beingness and successful my vocation wherever I truly wasn't definite that I had a way successful this manufacture and didn't truly peculiarly instrumentality myself precise earnestly astatine the time,” Bethel told me.

“So what I would accidental is that getting precise adjacent to getting a relation similar that, I've surface tested for it aggregate times, and met Kevin Feige, and did each the full opus and creation and benignant of astatine that clip felt like, ‘Wow, they're taking maine earnestly for 1 of the biggest roles you could perchance ideate successful Hollywood.’ It forced maine to instrumentality myself earnestly successful a mode that I surely hadn't up to that time.”

Bethel concluded, “So the information that I didn't get it... It's interesting. There was the question that idiosyncratic asked connected signifier [at LACC] of pivotal moments successful your vocation oregon whatever. For me, not getting that relation was incredibly pivotal successful truthful acold arsenic I didn't get the role, but it really transitioned maine into taking this vocation precise earnestly successful a mode of taking myself seriously.”

Bethel confirmed that helium auditioned successful costume and proceeded to amusement maine a photograph connected his telephone of him from his Steve Rogers audition. He was wearing a bomber jacket, a collared garment that was unfastened to uncover the Captain America azygous underneath his thoroughfare clothes.

Other actors who were up for the relation of Cap astatine that clip were John Krasinski and Sebastian Stan, some of whom yet joined the MCU arsenic an alternate beingness Reed Richards and Bucky Barnes, respectively.

Wilson Bethel is expected to reprise his relation arsenic Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter aka Bullseye for Season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again. Marvel Studios’ Brad Winderbaum precocious confirmed to IGN that Daredevil: Born Again Season 3 begins filming successful outpouring 2026.