How was it developing that dynamic with Vincent D’Onofrio ? This is a guy who for a long time hasn’t had a relationship where he could be trusting and open in, and he thinks he has that, but he’s just being used. I started feeling a deep sympathy for Dex at that point, once Fisk’s manipulation is so complete that Dex actually thinks that this is someone he can trust. Julie becomes a version of that, but it’s very murky from the start because of the power dynamic there. It’s never very clean, and certainly short-lived. You get a sense, in his relationship with his therapist, that this was one person who he had some semblance of an open and honest relationship with, and then she’s gone. I don’t think he’s a sexual predator - I think he just doesn’t have a grip on how one would even begin to have a normal relationship. There is no normal interaction for this guy, so of course his version of a relationship with a woman is going to be really fucked up.
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I think he can fake it really well, but I don’t know that there’s ever a version of Dex that has his guard completely down and just has a normal, free conversation in his daily life, or goes out to a bar and gets drinks. This is clearly a guy who just has not had a lot of normal social interactions of any kind. What do you make of the way he relates to women?
One of the first things we learn about Dex is that he’s stalking Julie. And then the rest of the season is the unraveling of all his mechanisms that are in place. What episode five establishes is that Dex, through the help of his therapist and his career and so on, manages to rein that in and gain some control over his life. I think that’s a unique perspective on psychosis: A lot of people out in the world are dealing with major psychological issues and have them under control in any number of ways, whether it’s medication, therapy, having routine and order in their life. I think what comes across most powerfully is, here is someone who has real psychological issues, but found a way to deal with them, as a lot of people do. What did you find compelling about the backstory that’s revealed for Dex in episode five? 'Daredevil': Charlie Cox, Showrunner Erik Oleson Dissect the Epic Season 3 Fight Scene The Bullseye that fans know is the one that will exist at some point in the future, after the end of this season. He had the chance to really be the architect of a Bullseye that is not known even to comic-book fans and create an origin story that didn’t really exist. What Erik has done is really take a character who is iconic and a lot of fans feel strongly about, but who doesn’t actually have a particularly in-depth backstory. Even if I had been an ardent Daredevil fan, there was nothing that really could have prepared me for what the season would look like in terms of Dex’s story.
They did tell me that it was Bullseye, or alluded to it, but I wasn’t familiar enough with the comics to know anything specific about him. How much did you know upfront about what you were auditioning for? This role was incredibly shrouded in secrecy until earlier this month. Daredevil” fight sequence between Dex and Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and how Dex might evolve into Bullseye.
When Fisk identifies Dex as an easy target for psychological manipulation, his fragile version of normalcy quickly unravels.īethel talked with The Hollywood Reporter about Dex and Fisk’s complex relationship, the “Daredevil vs. As an adult, Dex has found a way to keep his instability in check with structure, routine and work, although there are still clear red flags - he has no social life and spends his evenings stalking a former co-worker, Julie (Holly Cinnamon), from afar. Orphaned at a young age, he began to show violent tendencies during his childhood and suffers recurrent episodes of rage and loss of control. Benjamin “Dex” Poyndexter is an FBI agent whose tightly wound competence disguises a hair-trigger temper and a very dark backstory.