Yahoo News Daredevil, Elektra scenes get "emotional" in Defenders
Elektra will return from the dead in Marvel's The Defenders – and her return from the afterlife is "very confusing" for ex-lover Matt Murdock.
Charlie Cox told Digital Spy that he shares some "tricky scenes" with co-star Elodie Yung in the Netflix team-up series, which follows the events of Daredevil season 2.
"It's both intellectually and emotionally confusing," Cox said. "We've established that this is a world where [coming back from the dead] does happen, but you have to make it emotionally charged, so that it feels, in some way, as it would feel.
"You have to at least experiment with the idea of, 'how would that feel if it actually happened'?"
The answer, it turns out, might not bode want for Daredevil's sanity, with Cox hinting that Matt might refuse to accept how much Elektra has changed since being resurrected by ninja clan The Hand.
"What would that do to someone's mind?" he posed. "What does that do to a rational, forward-thinking human being, who understands boundaries in the same way that you and I understand boundaries?
"What's interesting is, when it's someone that you love... we played with the idea that it's amazing what your mind will do in order to justify what you want to be the truth. How much can you lose yourself in a fantasy, that you know deep down in your heart is not reality?"
It was previously revealed that Matt Murdock will have hung up his horns when The Defenders begins, with Cox explaining that the character felt like a failure after the events of Daredevil's second season.
"He was left holding the women that he loves in his arms and feeling directly responsible for her demise, so he's hung up the suit.
"I don't think he has any intention of returning to vigilante justice any time soon. He's put that to rest, although there's still an internal struggle. And then of course he finds himself forced into a situation, or situations, where he has to reconsider."
The Defenders will launch all eight episodes exclusively on Netflix this Friday (August 18).
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