{"id":189450,"date":"2025-10-04T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T12:16:27","slug":"daredevil-born-again-stars-on-the-purely-coincidental-and-entirely-accidental-perceived-similarities-between-kingpin-and-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189450\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil: Born Again Stars on the \u2018Purely Coincidental\u2019 and \u2018Entirely Accidental\u2019 Perceived Similarities Between Kingpin and Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spoke with Daredevil: Born Again<\/a> actors Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock) and Wilson Bethel (Bullseye) at Los Angeles Comic Con this past Saturday during which time they reflected on how \u201cpurely coincidental\u201d the timeliness of the first season was. <\/p>\n

Daredevil: Born Again, Season One<\/a> saw a convicted felon<\/a> win over voters<\/a> and, once in power, proceed to weaponize law enforcement against his enemies<\/a> while also seeking to personally profit from his political position<\/a>. One could be forgiven for perceiving some similarities between the show\u2019s villain, Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin, and the current occupant of the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere might have been a time when a convicted felon winning a prominent political office would seem unrealistic \u2013 but in 2025, it feels ripped from today\u2019s headlines,\u201d Joshua Yehl observed in his Daredevil: Born Again series premiere review<\/a>. \u201cThat said, the show sidesteps any specific real-world politics and instead focuses on exploring themes of empowering bullies and the responsibility one has to stand up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While the political timeliness of the first season can be chalked up to coincidence as Donald Trump had not yet won a second term as President of the United States, Season 2 (and Season 3, which shoots next spring<\/a>) are being produced at a time when the President\u2019s words and deeds dominate the daily news cycle. <\/p>\n

Comparisons between Fisk and Trump seem inescapable for the show going forward, even though Charlie Cox told me any such similarities between the two men are \u201centirely accidental.\u201d (It\u2019s not the first time that those involved with the show have denied that Fisk is an allegory for Trump<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

“Those similarities, if people see them, are purely coincidental.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s really, really important at this point to say that those similarities, if people see them, are purely coincidental. That really is the case,\u201d Cox said. \u201cIf you think about it, Vincent D’Onofrio built that character in 2014. In 2014, if you just said the name of the president and the word president, you’d have been laughed at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson Bethel concurred with Cox, saying, \u201cThat Season One of Born Again was written before our current president was president. So I mean, look, what the show clearly explores in some really profound, interesting ways are what can happen if too much power gets in the wrong hands. You can look into that how you will. Certainly, there’s been plenty of examples of that throughout history. But we may or may not be in one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cox added: \u201cEvery time you have a scene with Frank Castle in the 10 years we’ve been doing it, every time there’s a scene, someone’s going to say, \u2018It doesn’t feel like it’s a very good time to be shooting a hero who’s got a gun.\u2019 You know what I mean? I feel like it’s really important to allow, and chuckle at, and enjoy some coincidences that may be there. But it’s also important to stipulate that they are entirely accidental.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more from my interview, find out how \u201cheartbreaking\u201d it was for Wilson Bethel to lose the role of Captain America to Chris Evans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I spoke with Daredevil: Born Again actors Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock) and Wilson Bethel (Bullseye) at Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-189450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}