Charlie Cox thinks many viewers will relate to his character Matt Murdock/Daredevil's tempestuous relationship with the Netflix series' second-season addition Elektra (Elodie Yung).

The Marvel character appears on the series just as Matt believes he has wrapped up his dealings with the complicated vigilante Punisher (Jon Bernthal). Matt has a minute to breathe before he arrives home to find Elektra waiting inside his apartment. Their tense back-and-forth signals that there is a lot of intense history between the superheroes.

"Elektra represents the girlfriend — or the boyfriend — that we've all had at some point in the journey and hopefully that you have learned to move on from," Cox explained to Business Insider.

"She's the most exciting, the most dangerous," he continued. "She brings that side of you that you didn't know existed, and then you blink and she's gone and you never see her again, and you're devastated and your life's over and you don't know what happened to you and it was a whole whirlwind."

In the Marvel Comics world, Elektra and Daredevil dated while in college. And like Punisher, she has a thirst for justice but differs in the way she gets it. An athletic woman, Elektra is adept at martial arts and the use of knives and swords.

"I wanted to keep the coldness," Yung, 35, said during the winter Television Critics Association press tour of what she took from the comics. "Elektra is kind of a sociopath. This world is a game for her. It’s like a chess game, and what motivates her is what she wants. She’ll use anything she needs to use to get to her goal, and if she needs to kill people, she would."

The Netflix series revisits the couple's early relationship in flashbacks to college. It also brings Matt back to the memories of his late father and face-to-face with the man who murdered him. 

Elektra may just be the deadliest opposition Matt has had to face on the series. Unlike season one's Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Punisher, Elektra has an emotional hold on the masked hero.

"I know a lot of men who can identify with that kind of relationship that Elektra presents to Matt," Cox, 33, told us. "It's wonderful and terrible all at the same time. It's life-giving and life-destroying simultaneously."

Watch the "Daredevil" trailer featuring Elektra below:

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Charlie Cox had to seriously step up his game to play the title role in Marvel's first Netflix series, "Daredevil."

"The truth is, before I did this show, I'd never really been in shape, I never really had a gym membership, and I'd always just occasionally go for a run, that kind of stuff," Cox told Business Insider.

On "Daredevil," which just released its second season, Cox has to perform extensive fight scenes, exhibit great flexibility, and just look all-around awesome in the superhero suit. For a guy who wasn't a gym rat to begin with, it takes commitment to keep his fitness level high.

"It was such hard work to get into shape, that when we finished the first season, just on the off-chance that we were going to do it again, I didn't let myself completely go," Cox said. "I just couldn't bear the idea of having to start over again."

"He's committed. He's the real deal," Cox's personal trainer and the creator and president of Arazi Fitness, Naqam Washington, told us.

Regarding his training style, Washington said, "Nowadays, people train to get optimal movement from their body. They train like an athlete. And I have an MBA and MMA background, so it works well with Charlie. We did modern, sport-specific, MMA movement."

Here's how Cox stays in "Daredevil" shape:

Cox eats lots of meals and lots of carbs each day.

"Be really militant with your food and the regularity of your food," the actor said. "One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle."

Washington explained that most of the work revolves around food intake.

"You grow or you lose weight outside the gym, and basically, a lot of it is what you eat," Washington explained. "So if Charlie wants to gain weight in lean muscle mass, his caloric intake has to be more than his energy expenditure, mathematically. If you want to lose weight, your energy expenditure should be more than your caloric intake."

Cox works out three to six days a week, depending on where in the production schedule "Daredevil" is.

"I never do seven days [in a week], because you are supposed to rest. I tend to do five days," Cox said. "Before the show, when we're building up to shoot the show, I try to do six days a week. I try to get myself into good enough shape so when we start shooting, I can concentrate on the show and the acting part of it and not worry about it so much. So basically, I can do weeks where I do three or four times a week."

"He normally gives me an hour and 15 minutes," Washington said of the duration of Cox's workouts. "If I can sneak and take an extra 15-20 minutes, I'll take it. But he's usually strict, because he's so busy."

Cox's workout includes isolating body parts, but in a modern way.

"One day you go in, and do your shoulders. And the next day, you do your legs, and the next day after you do your biceps," Cox explained.

But if you think that sounds pretty standard and old-school, Washington says these aren't the isolated exercises of your '90s action heroes.

"Remember back in the day when people used to work out one body part per day and try to be like Arnold Schwarzenegger and want to lift 200 pounds or whatever, some madness like that? Nobody works out like that now," Washington told us. "We'll do some primary muscle, but in a sport-specific, functional way, not the heavy three sets of 12, then you rest... We did none of that."

Charlie Cox had to seriously step up his game to play the title role in Marvel's first Netflix series, "Daredevil."

"The truth is, before I did this show, I'd never really been in shape, I never really had a gym membership, and I'd always just occasionally go for a run, that kind of stuff," Cox told Business Insider.

On "Daredevil," which just released its second season, Cox has to perform extensive fight scenes, exhibit great flexibility, and just look all-around awesome in the superhero suit. For a guy who wasn't a gym rat to begin with, it takes commitment to keep his fitness level high.

"It was such hard work to get into shape, that when we finished the first season, just on the off-chance that we were going to do it again, I didn't let myself completely go," Cox said. "I just couldn't bear the idea of having to start over again."

"He's committed. He's the real deal," Cox's personal trainer and the creator and president of Arazi Fitness, Naqam Washington, told us.

Regarding his training style, Washington said, "Nowadays, people train to get optimal movement from their body. They train like an athlete. And I have an MBA and MMA background, so it works well with Charlie. We did modern, sport-specific, MMA movement."

Here's how Cox stays in "Daredevil" shape:

Cox eats lots of meals and lots of carbs each day.

"Be really militant with your food and the regularity of your food," the actor said. "One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle."

Washington explained that most of the work revolves around food intake.

"You grow or you lose weight outside the gym, and basically, a lot of it is what you eat," Washington explained. "So if Charlie wants to gain weight in lean muscle mass, his caloric intake has to be more than his energy expenditure, mathematically. If you want to lose weight, your energy expenditure should be more than your caloric intake."

Cox works out three to six days a week, depending on where in the production schedule "Daredevil" is.

"I never do seven days [in a week], because you are supposed to rest. I tend to do five days," Cox said. "Before the show, when we're building up to shoot the show, I try to do six days a week. I try to get myself into good enough shape so when we start shooting, I can concentrate on the show and the acting part of it and not worry about it so much. So basically, I can do weeks where I do three or four times a week."

"He normally gives me an hour and 15 minutes," Washington said of the duration of Cox's workouts. "If I can sneak and take an extra 15-20 minutes, I'll take it. But he's usually strict, because he's so busy."

Cox's workout includes isolating body parts, but in a modern way.

"One day you go in, and do your shoulders. And the next day, you do your legs, and the next day after you do your biceps," Cox explained.

But if you think that sounds pretty standard and old-school, Washington says these aren't the isolated exercises of your '90s action heroes.

"Remember back in the day when people used to work out one body part per day and try to be like Arnold Schwarzenegger and want to lift 200 pounds or whatever, some madness like that? Nobody works out like that now," Washington told us. "We'll do some primary muscle, but in a sport-specific, functional way, not the heavy three sets of 12, then you rest... We did none of that."

"Daredevil" made a splash during its first season with an intense, crowdpleasing fight scene. And season two is no different.

Highly regarded for its precise choreography, uniquely realistic street-brawling style, and for being filmed in one take, the first season's battle set the bar high. But season two's fight, which arrives at the end of episode three, definitely lives up to expectations.

"When I read it in the script, I remember thinking, 'That's a bold move, man,'""Daredevil" star Charlie Cox recently told Business Insider.

While the new fight isn't shot in one take like season one's fight, it definitely ups the ante. It also takes place in a hallway-like setting. Just before, Daredevil survived a confrontation with Frank Castle aka Punisher (Jon Bernthal), and then he has to fight his way down a stairwell as an angry and murderous biker gang descends on him.

"They ramped it up a little bit, so that it felt like it was more of an homage than something you would compare season one's fight to," Cox said. "I think it's great. It was great fun to shoot and was a hell of a couple of days, but it's really fun, and it's different."

Directed by Marc Jobst, the three-minute fight shines a spotlight on "Daredevil's" realistic choreography, complete with breaks for the hero to catch his breath.

"That's what it feels like," Cox, 33, explained. "If you were to get into fights that lasted that long, you would be dying. You would be so out of breath. You wouldn't be able to get the air in quick enough. I just think that's such a smart piece of choreography, because I think other people might worry that it takes the tension out, and you'd lose the drama. But I think the audience feels more riveted, because it feels truer to life, more like what's it like when you fight someone."

Watch season two's most talked-about fight scene below:

Join the conversation about this story »

NOW WATCH: The new 'Daredevil' villain was thrust onto the stage at Comic Con for the first time

It turns out we almost saw Daredevil in "Star Wars." Well, sort of.

Charlie Cox, who plays the title character in Netflix's "Daredevil," is so accustomed to playing the blind Matt Murdock that he forgot how to maintain eye contact while acting for an audition on a "Star Wars" movie. And he says it lost him the role.

“It’s been really fun to look people in the eye,” Cox said in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "I had gone to an audition — one of those things that are super-secretive and they don’t tell you, but I’m pretty sure it was for the Han Solo reboot — and halfway through it, the casting director stopped me and said, ‘Why aren’t you looking at me?’"

Apparently all the work on "Daredevil" tripped Cox up.

"I realized I had gotten into a habit of not making eye contact, because the only thing I had done for two years is play someone who is blind," Cox added. "I never got invited back, probably because they couldn’t figure out why I was acting like a complete idiot.”

The actor is apparently just that committed to the role of The Man Without Fear. Meanwhile, the Han Solo role, of course, went to Alden Ehrenreich.

Cox is currently starring in the Off-Broadway play "Incognito" through July 10.

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Charlie Cox thinks many viewers will relate to his character Matt Murdock/Daredevil's tempestuous relationship with the Netflix series' second-season addition Elektra (Elodie Yung).

The Marvel character appears on the series just as Matt believes he has wrapped up his dealings with the complicated vigilante Punisher (Jon Bernthal). Matt has a minute to breathe before he arrives home to find Elektra waiting inside his apartment. Their tense back-and-forth signals that there is a lot of intense history between the superheroes.

"Elektra represents the girlfriend — or the boyfriend — that we've all had at some point in the journey and hopefully that you have learned to move on from," Cox explained to Business Insider.

"She's the most exciting, the most dangerous," he continued. "She brings that side of you that you didn't know existed, and then you blink and she's gone and you never see her again, and you're devastated and your life's over and you don't know what happened to you and it was a whole whirlwind."

In the Marvel Comics world, Elektra and Daredevil dated while in college. And like Punisher, she has a thirst for justice but differs in the way she gets it. An athletic woman, Elektra is adept at martial arts and the use of knives and swords.

"I wanted to keep the coldness," Yung, 35, said during the winter Television Critics Association press tour of what she took from the comics. "Elektra is kind of a sociopath. This world is a game for her. It’s like a chess game, and what motivates her is what she wants. She’ll use anything she needs to use to get to her goal, and if she needs to kill people, she would."

The Netflix series revisits the couple's early relationship in flashbacks to college. It also brings Matt back to the memories of his late father and face-to-face with the man who murdered him. 

Elektra may just be the deadliest opposition Matt has had to face on the series. Unlike season one's Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Punisher, Elektra has an emotional hold on the masked hero.

"I know a lot of men who can identify with that kind of relationship that Elektra presents to Matt," Cox, 33, told us. "It's wonderful and terrible all at the same time. It's life-giving and life-destroying simultaneously."

Watch the "Daredevil" trailer featuring Elektra below:

SEE ALSO: 'Daredevil' star Charlie Cox explains the importance of season 2's most exciting new character

SEE ALSO: Netflix exec bashes the viewer numbers NBC revealed for its shows like 'Jessica Jones' and 'Master of None' as 'remarkably inaccurate'

Join the conversation about this story »

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"Daredevil" made a splash during its first season with an intense, crowdpleasing fight scene. And season two is no different.

Highly regarded for its precise choreography, uniquely realistic street-brawling style, and for being filmed in one take, the first season's battle set the bar high. But season two's fight, which arrives at the end of episode three, definitely lives up to expectations.

"When I read it in the script, I remember thinking, 'That's a bold move, man,'""Daredevil" star Charlie Cox recently told Business Insider.

While the new fight isn't shot in one take like season one's fight, it definitely ups the ante. It also takes place in a hallway-like setting. Just before, Daredevil survived a confrontation with Frank Castle aka Punisher (Jon Bernthal), and then he has to fight his way down a stairwell as an angry and murderous biker gang descends on him.

"They ramped it up a little bit, so that it felt like it was more of an homage than something you would compare season one's fight to," Cox said. "I think it's great. It was great fun to shoot and was a hell of a couple of days, but it's really fun, and it's different."

Directed by Marc Jobst, the three-minute fight shines a spotlight on "Daredevil's" realistic choreography, complete with breaks for the hero to catch his breath.

"That's what it feels like," Cox, 33, explained. "If you were to get into fights that lasted that long, you would be dying. You would be so out of breath. You wouldn't be able to get the air in quick enough. I just think that's such a smart piece of choreography, because I think other people might worry that it takes the tension out, and you'd lose the drama. But I think the audience feels more riveted, because it feels truer to life, more like what's it like when you fight someone."

Watch season two's most talked-about fight scene below:

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SEE ALSO: How 'Into the Badlands' pulls off its incredible martial arts fighting scenes

Join the conversation about this story »

NOW WATCH: The new 'Daredevil' villain was thrust onto the stage at Comic Con for the first time

It turns out we almost saw Daredevil in "Star Wars." Well, sort of.

Charlie Cox, who plays the title character in Netflix's "Daredevil," is so accustomed to playing the blind Matt Murdock that he forgot how to maintain eye contact while acting for an audition on a "Star Wars" movie. And he says it lost him the role.

“It’s been really fun to look people in the eye,” Cox said in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "I had gone to an audition — one of those things that are super-secretive and they don’t tell you, but I’m pretty sure it was for the Han Solo reboot — and halfway through it, the casting director stopped me and said, ‘Why aren’t you looking at me?’"

Apparently all the work on "Daredevil" tripped Cox up.

"I realized I had gotten into a habit of not making eye contact, because the only thing I had done for two years is play someone who is blind," Cox added. "I never got invited back, probably because they couldn’t figure out why I was acting like a complete idiot.”

The actor is apparently just that committed to the role of The Man Without Fear. Meanwhile, the Han Solo role, of course, went to Alden Ehrenreich.

Cox is currently starring in the Off-Broadway play "Incognito" through July 10.

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Warning: There are minor spoilers ahead for Netflix's "The Defenders" ahead.

Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock meet each other pretty early on in Marvel's "The Defenders," streaming on Netflix Friday, and when they do, the two get off to a rocky start.

It also doesn't help that one of their earliest encounters involves Murdock stealing Jones' beloved gray scarf to hide his identify and go after some bad men.

If you haven't watched the miniseries yet, it's one of the more humorous moments between the two characters you see teased in the show's trailers. As Daredevil goes around knocking out bad guys with Jones' scarf tied round his head she tells him he looks like an a------. His retort? It's her scarf.

While it's a scene fans are sure to relish, and which is sure to inspire future cosplay, the stars tell INSIDER the scene initially gave them pause to film.

"I remember flagging it in the script and being like, 'That's going to be really complicated,'" Cox told INSIDER of being able to get the scarf quickly off of his costar Krysten Ritter. "It was written that it should happen quite seamlessly and before Jessica realizes what's happened, and I remember thinking, 'That's not gonna work. It was going to be a nightmare,' but it was kind of fun."

"I did the same thing," said Ritter. "I flagged it also and am like, 'I don't know if that's going to work, but, also, I need my scarf. Don't ruin it!"

Cox said that it was a moment that actually ended up working out quite well on set even though Jones was pretty adamant about getting her signature item back quickly.

"You were kind of precious about that scarf," he added. "You wanted it back."

"And guess what?" Ritter asked. "It came back — ruined!"

All eight episodes of "The Defenders" are currently streaming on Netflix.

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Charlie Cox thinks many viewers will relate to his character Matt Murdock/Daredevil's tempestuous relationship with the Netflix series' second-season addition Elektra (Elodie Yung).

The Marvel character appears on the series just as Matt believes he has wrapped up his dealings with the complicated vigilante Punisher (Jon Bernthal). Matt has a minute to breathe before he arrives home to find Elektra waiting inside his apartment. Their tense back-and-forth signals that there is a lot of intense history between the superheroes.

"Elektra represents the girlfriend — or the boyfriend — that we've all had at some point in the journey and hopefully that you have learned to move on from," Cox explained to Business Insider.

"She's the most exciting, the most dangerous," he continued. "She brings that side of you that you didn't know existed, and then you blink and she's gone and you never see her again, and you're devastated and your life's over and you don't know what happened to you and it was a whole whirlwind."

In the Marvel Comics world, Elektra and Daredevil dated while in college. And like Punisher, she has a thirst for justice but differs in the way she gets it. An athletic woman, Elektra is adept at martial arts and the use of knives and swords.

"I wanted to keep the coldness," Yung, 35, said during the winter Television Critics Association press tour of what she took from the comics. "Elektra is kind of a sociopath. This world is a game for her. It’s like a chess game, and what motivates her is what she wants. She’ll use anything she needs to use to get to her goal, and if she needs to kill people, she would."

The Netflix series revisits the couple's early relationship in flashbacks to college. It also brings Matt back to the memories of his late father and face-to-face with the man who murdered him. 

Elektra may just be the deadliest opposition Matt has had to face on the series. Unlike season one's Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Punisher, Elektra has an emotional hold on the masked hero.

"I know a lot of men who can identify with that kind of relationship that Elektra presents to Matt," Cox, 33, told us. "It's wonderful and terrible all at the same time. It's life-giving and life-destroying simultaneously."

Watch the "Daredevil" trailer featuring Elektra below:

SEE ALSO: 'Daredevil' star Charlie Cox explains the importance of season 2's most exciting new character

SEE ALSO: Netflix exec bashes the viewer numbers NBC revealed for its shows like 'Jessica Jones' and 'Master of None' as 'remarkably inaccurate'

Join the conversation about this story »

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Charlie Cox had to seriously step up his game to play the title role in Marvel's first Netflix series, "Daredevil."

"The truth is, before I did this show, I'd never really been in shape, I never really had a gym membership, and I'd always just occasionally go for a run, that kind of stuff," Cox told Business Insider.

On "Daredevil," which just released its second season, Cox has to perform extensive fight scenes, exhibit great flexibility, and just look all-around awesome in the superhero suit. For a guy who wasn't a gym rat to begin with, it takes commitment to keep his fitness level high.

"It was such hard work to get into shape, that when we finished the first season, just on the off-chance that we were going to do it again, I didn't let myself completely go," Cox said. "I just couldn't bear the idea of having to start over again."

"He's committed. He's the real deal," Cox's personal trainer and the creator and president of Arazi Fitness, Naqam Washington, told us.

Regarding his training style, Washington said, "Nowadays, people train to get optimal movement from their body. They train like an athlete. And I have an MBA and MMA background, so it works well with Charlie. We did modern, sport-specific, MMA movement."

Here's how Cox stays in "Daredevil" shape:

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SEE ALSO: 'Daredevil' star Charlie Cox explains the importance of season 2's most exciting new character

Cox eats lots of meals and lots of carbs each day.

"Be really militant with your food and the regularity of your food," the actor said. "One of the difficulties for me is that I'm naturally very skinny, so the problem that I have is trying to keep weight on, put weight on. I have to eat six, seven times a day, and I have to have a lot of carbohydrates to try and fatten me up so I have something to turn into muscle."

Washington explained that most of the work revolves around food intake.

"You grow or you lose weight outside the gym, and basically, a lot of it is what you eat," Washington explained. "So if Charlie wants to gain weight in lean muscle mass, his caloric intake has to be more than his energy expenditure, mathematically. If you want to lose weight, your energy expenditure should be more than your caloric intake."

Cox works out three to six days a week, depending on where in the production schedule "Daredevil" is.

"I never do seven days [in a week], because you are supposed to rest. I tend to do five days," Cox said. "Before the show, when we're building up to shoot the show, I try to do six days a week. I try to get myself into good enough shape so when we start shooting, I can concentrate on the show and the acting part of it and not worry about it so much. So basically, I can do weeks where I do three or four times a week."

"He normally gives me an hour and 15 minutes," Washington said of the duration of Cox's workouts. "If I can sneak and take an extra 15-20 minutes, I'll take it. But he's usually strict, because he's so busy."

Cox's workout includes isolating body parts, but in a modern way.

"One day you go in, and do your shoulders. And the next day, you do your legs, and the next day after you do your biceps," Cox explained.

But if you think that sounds pretty standard and old-school, Washington says these aren't the isolated exercises of your '90s action heroes.

"Remember back in the day when people used to work out one body part per day and try to be like Arnold Schwarzenegger and want to lift 200 pounds or whatever, some madness like that? Nobody works out like that now," Washington told us. "We'll do some primary muscle, but in a sport-specific, functional way, not the heavy three sets of 12, then you rest... We did none of that."

"Daredevil" made a splash during its first season with an intense, crowdpleasing fight scene. And season two is no different.

Highly regarded for its precise choreography, uniquely realistic street-brawling style, and for being filmed in one take, the first season's battle set the bar high. But season two's fight, which arrives at the end of episode three, definitely lives up to expectations.

"When I read it in the script, I remember thinking, 'That's a bold move, man,'""Daredevil" star Charlie Cox recently told Business Insider.

While the new fight isn't shot in one take like season one's fight, it definitely ups the ante. It also takes place in a hallway-like setting. Just before, Daredevil survived a confrontation with Frank Castle aka Punisher (Jon Bernthal), and then he has to fight his way down a stairwell as an angry and murderous biker gang descends on him.

"They ramped it up a little bit, so that it felt like it was more of an homage than something you would compare season one's fight to," Cox said. "I think it's great. It was great fun to shoot and was a hell of a couple of days, but it's really fun, and it's different."

Directed by Marc Jobst, the three-minute fight shines a spotlight on "Daredevil's" realistic choreography, complete with breaks for the hero to catch his breath.

"That's what it feels like," Cox, 33, explained. "If you were to get into fights that lasted that long, you would be dying. You would be so out of breath. You wouldn't be able to get the air in quick enough. I just think that's such a smart piece of choreography, because I think other people might worry that it takes the tension out, and you'd lose the drama. But I think the audience feels more riveted, because it feels truer to life, more like what's it like when you fight someone."

Watch season two's most talked-about fight scene below:

SEE ALSO: Here's how 'Daredevil' star Charlie Cox got ripped to be a superhero

SEE ALSO: How 'Into the Badlands' pulls off its incredible martial arts fighting scenes

Join the conversation about this story »

NOW WATCH: The new 'Daredevil' villain was thrust onto the stage at Comic Con for the first time

It turns out we almost saw Daredevil in "Star Wars." Well, sort of.

Charlie Cox, who plays the title character in Netflix's "Daredevil," is so accustomed to playing the blind Matt Murdock that he forgot how to maintain eye contact while acting for an audition on a "Star Wars" movie. And he says it lost him the role.

“It’s been really fun to look people in the eye,” Cox said in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "I had gone to an audition — one of those things that are super-secretive and they don’t tell you, but I’m pretty sure it was for the Han Solo reboot — and halfway through it, the casting director stopped me and said, ‘Why aren’t you looking at me?’"

Apparently all the work on "Daredevil" tripped Cox up.

"I realized I had gotten into a habit of not making eye contact, because the only thing I had done for two years is play someone who is blind," Cox added. "I never got invited back, probably because they couldn’t figure out why I was acting like a complete idiot.”

The actor is apparently just that committed to the role of The Man Without Fear. Meanwhile, the Han Solo role, of course, went to Alden Ehrenreich.

Cox is currently starring in the Off-Broadway play "Incognito" through July 10.

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Warning: There are minor spoilers ahead for Netflix's "The Defenders" ahead.

Jessica Jones and Matt Murdock meet each other pretty early on in Marvel's "The Defenders," streaming on Netflix Friday, and when they do, the two get off to a rocky start.

It also doesn't help that one of their earliest encounters involves Murdock stealing Jones' beloved gray scarf to hide his identify and go after some bad men.

If you haven't watched the miniseries yet, it's one of the more humorous moments between the two characters you see teased in the show's trailers. As Daredevil goes around knocking out bad guys with Jones' scarf tied round his head she tells him he looks like an a------. His retort? It's her scarf.

While it's a scene fans are sure to relish, and which is sure to inspire future cosplay, the stars tell INSIDER the scene initially gave them pause to film.

"I remember flagging it in the script and being like, 'That's going to be really complicated,'" Cox told INSIDER of being able to get the scarf quickly off of his costar Krysten Ritter. "It was written that it should happen quite seamlessly and before Jessica realizes what's happened, and I remember thinking, 'That's not gonna work. It was going to be a nightmare,' but it was kind of fun."

"I did the same thing," said Ritter. "I flagged it also and am like, 'I don't know if that's going to work, but, also, I need my scarf. Don't ruin it!"

Cox said that it was a moment that actually ended up working out quite well on set even though Jones was pretty adamant about getting her signature item back quickly.

"You were kind of precious about that scarf," he added. "You wanted it back."

"And guess what?" Ritter asked. "It came back — ruined!"

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• Marvel stars Charlie Cox ("Daredevil") and Tom Hiddleston ("Thor: Ragnarok") surprised fans at their Broadway show "Betrayal" in costume.
• Cox and Hiddleston dressed as each other's Marvel characters, Loki and Daredevil, respectively, and greeted fans.
• Their two other castmates, Zawe Ashton and Eddie Arnold, also dressed up as Captain Marvel and Captain America.
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Plenty of celebrities are dressing up for Halloween and Marvel stars Charlie Cox and Tom Hiddleston came up with a clever idea that fans are loving. 

Instead of dressing up as their own Marvel characters, the two traded looks. Cox dressed up as the God of Mischief Loki while Hiddleston did his best Daredevil impression. 

The duo, who are currently starring on Broadway show "Betrayal" together, stepped out in costume Wednesday evening to greet fans.

Hiddleston even signed playbills in costume.

It wasn't just Cox and Hiddleston who dressed up from their Broadway show. 

Their castmates, Zawe Ashton and Eddie Arnold, also joined them as Marvel supeheroes, Captain Marvel and Captain America. 

Fans loved that the two Marvel stars swapped characters for the night. 

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