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Charlie Cox revealed to People magazine that he was first approached by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige about a potential return as Daredevil in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2020. It would be two years before the studio announced "Daredevil: Born Again," though Cox had already popped up as the character in a cameo in "Spider-Man: No Way Home." The actor spent those two years convinced that he would never get his own "Daredevil" series again.

“We wrapped filming the original show in late 2016, early 2018 and found out it was canceled sometime around that time,” Cox said of his original role as Daredevil on the Netflix series of the same name, which ran for three seasons between 2015 and 2018. “And then it wasn’t until mid-2020 that we got a call from Kevin saying they were interested in bringing the characters back.”

Marvel Studios subsequently went completely silent on the radio about Cox, so he "completely dropped" any possibility of starring in a "Daredevil" reboot series. He remained in contact with Vincent D'Onofrio, who played Kingpin, and always held on to the belief that their time would come for a return.