Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 premiere just dropped on Disney+ and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it audio cue has officially tied Wilson Fisk to the highest levels of the MCU’s shadow government.
In a post-premiere breakdown with The Wrap, showrunner Dario Scardapane and executive producer Sana Amanat pulled back the curtain on the episode’s biggest Easter egg: the off-screen presence of the MCU’s shadiest normy,Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
The moment happens in Wilson Fisk’s mayoral office in Gracie Mansion. As Fisk is being lectured by high-ranking government officials, Matthew Lillard’s Mr. Charles abrubtly enters the room. When one of the officials receives a phone call that instantly flips his hostile tone into one of total submission, he addresses the caller as “Miss de Fontaine.”
Scardapane confirmed to The Wrap that this wasn’t just a random name-drop. “Mr. Charles has a boss!” he teased, finally confirming that Lillard’s character is an asset reporting directly to Val. Sana Amanat explained that the Easter egg was designed to “create space” and remind the audience that these street-level stakes exist within the larger MCU ecosystem, even if Val doesn’t physically walk into Gracie Mansion.
We wanted to put Mr. Charles in that world. We wanted to kind of connect those two. Her showing up in our world would be the best, but a lot of the times, we’re siloed in this, you know, pretty rich world of characters and where those crossovers are.
-Dario Scardapane
As tantalizing as the tease was, Amanat clarified that fans should NOT take it as an indication that it’s anything more than an it’s-all-connected Easter egg. “There’s no need for that,” Amanat said when asked if the mention was teeing up another project. “I feel like these stories are so rich on their own that we are able to tell the stories we need to, especially with Daredevil, because there’s so many different kinds of characters.“
However, informed fans know that Val has her hands into more dirt than just smuggling weapons which means, by extension, so does Mr. Charles…and his MCU story is just beginning.
Source: The Wrap
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