{"id":793976,"date":"2026-02-28T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/793976\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:10:10","slug":"born-again-star-matthew-lillard-drops-a-huge-hint-about-his-mcu-role-and-link-to-the-kingpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/793976\/","title":{"rendered":"BORN AGAIN Star Matthew Lillard Drops A Huge Hint About His MCU Role And Link To The Kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even after a pretty extensive creative overhaul,\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again\u00a0was a hit with MCU fans.\u00a0However, when the show returns for Season 2 on Disney+ next year, showrunner Dario Scardapane’s vision won’t be competing with that of a previous creative team’s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The series has made several noteworthy casting additions, with\u00a0Scream\u00a0star Matthew Lillard among the most intriguing. The actor will play Mr. Charles, an antagonist described\u00a0as being every bit as influential as Mayor Wilson Fisk. We still don’t know whether that’s a codename for someone\u00a0from the comics or a newly created character to pit the Kingpin against.<\/p>\n

Looking at the source material, he may represent\u00a0the\u00a0Stromwyns, wealthy power brokers who back Wilson Fisk’s mayoral campaign and political actions in a bid to make him their puppet in the White House. “Mr. Charles” may even be a new take on those characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Talking to the\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a>, Lillard shared some intriguing hints about his MCU role. “I played Dungeon & Dragons with three incredible showrunners. Dario Scardapane, who runs ‘Daredevil,’\u00a0Matt Nix, who\u2019s doing the new ‘Baywatch,’ and then Elwood Reid, who does ‘Tracker,” he explained.\u00a0|I\u2019m their dungeon master. We play with Abraham Benrubi, this beautiful actor,\u00a0a dear friend of mine.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Dario brought me in to play Mr. Charles [on ‘Daredevil: Born Again’], who\u2019s like a CIA spook. He\u2019s a guy that controls power from afar. He helps nations rise and fall, but he\u2019s very clandestine,”<\/strong> the actor continued.\u00a0“He is not impressed by the powers of [Vincent] D\u2019Onofrio\u2019s character [Kingpin] at all. He and I get into this really delicious struggle over power. It\u2019s good. It\u2019s fun.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

That certainly sounds similar to the role played by the\u00a0Stromwyns in Chip Zdarsky’s Daredevil run, or at least a new take on the idea of Fisk learning he’s not as powerful as he thinks. How key that will be to The Kingpin’s MCU future remains to be seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If there wasn’t such a divide between Marvel’s big and small screen stories\u2014not to mention characters from Spider-Man’s world being largely off-limits outside of the wall-crawler’s movies\u2014then another villain we might see the Man Without Fear cross paths with is Mysterio.<\/p>\n

In the comics, he orchestrated Karen Page’s in Kevin Smith and Joe Quesada’s “Guardian Devil” storyline. Talking to\u00a0Entertainment Tonight<\/a>\u00a0about The Bride!,\u00a0Jake Gyllenhaal was asked if Mysterio could return in Avengers: Doomsday.<\/p>\n

To that, the actor said, “Oh man, I\u2019m not the one to ask about that”<\/strong> before walking away. If anything, it’s more likely that Quentin Beck would show up in an upcoming Spider-Man movie, but we’ll have to wait and see on that front.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again, survival, resistance and redemption collide as the battle for the soul of New York begins. In Season 2, Mayor Wilson Fisk crushes New York City underfoot as he hunts down public enemy number one, the Hell\u2019s Kitchen vigilante known as Daredevil.<\/p>\n

But beneath the horned mask, Matt Murdock will try to fight back from the shadows to tear down the Kingpin\u2019s corrupt empire and redeem his home. Resist. Rebel. Rebuild.<\/p>\n

Created by Dario Scardapane, Chris Ord and Matt Corman,\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again\u00a0Season 2\u00a0stars Charlie Cox as the titular masked vigilante (aka Matt Murdock) and Vincent D\u2019Onofrio as Wilson Fisk.<\/p>\n

Returning to the series are Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk, Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter\/Bullseye and Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn. This season also marks the long-awaited return of Krysten Ritter as fan-favourite Jessica Jones and introduces Matthew Lillard as the mysterious Mr. Charles.<\/p>\n

Daredevil: Born Again\u00a0returns to Disney+ on March 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even after a pretty extensive creative overhaul,\u00a0Daredevil: Born Again\u00a0was a hit with MCU fans.\u00a0However, when the show returns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[3983,23610,77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-793976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avengers-doomsday","9":"tag-daredevil-born-again","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116146302108926114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}