SINGAPORE, April 1 — Actor Charlie Cox, who plays Daredevil/Matt Murdock in the hit Netflix series Marvel’s Daredevil, believes television audiences will be able to relate with his character as the second season focuses on Matt Murdock’s struggle to manage his personal life as well as his role as a superhero.

Blinded as a young boy in an accident but imbued with extraordinary senses, Murdock battles crime by day as a lawyer, and by night as the superhero Daredevil in modern day Hell’s Kitchen, New York City.

The second season offers fans a more detailed insight into the costumed vigilante’s attempts to juggle both lives as well as introduce new characters such as the Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and Elektra Natchios (Elodie Yung).

“We’ve found a superhero who’s relatable, we meet someone who is a force for good, incredibly brave and incredibly generous of spirit, is kind, trying to help the city and help people, is selfless, but at the same time we also meet someone who suffers from very human character flaws,” Cox told Malay Mail Online in a recent interview in Singapore, as part of his on-going press tour to promote the second season of the show.

“He’s very stubborn and he’s got a temper, takes things too far and is deeply arrogant at times. He has a child-like belief of his invincibility and at times you look at Matt and you think to yourself — ‘dude what are you doing, be more sensible, take it easy’.

“You relate to him because he makes the kind of mistakes we make,” the Englishman said with a smile.

A stubborn Daredevil humbled

At the beginning of the second season, audiences and fans are shown a side of Daredevil/Murdock which is very human — someone who’s gotten too comfortable with his abilities and lets his ego get the better of him.

According to Cox, playing and acting out such qualities in a character is something which he can personally identify with.

“Oh yeah, the stubbornness, Matt’s ego gets involved in the beginning of season, he’s got a kind of a swagger before Frank Castle/the Punisher shows up, the way he (Daredevil) moves you can see it’s in his bones, yeah ‘you’re a rockstar.’

Daredevil in action in Hell's Kitchen, New York.

“I relate to the idea of your ego attaching to your triumphs… and when Punisher turned up, followed by Elektra… and then the Hand it is a humbling experience... we begin to see a man unravel,” the 33-year old explains.

The Punisher and Elektra play the role of antagonists, who both hunt down and kill their opponents, a line where Daredevil tries to never cross. In the second season, the three of them go up against the Hand, a clandestine organisation of ninjas who are involved in organised crime.

Cox points out a fight scene in the second episode of the new season, where the Punisher whips out a handgun and shoots Daredevil in the head. (He survives because his mask is made from a bulletproof like material).

“That’s his (Daredevil’s) own arrogance, in hand-to-hand combat there is no challenge, (but) he gets complacent and gets shot in the head,” he says.

Daredevil vs the Punisher

One of the reasons why fans have been eagerly awaiting the release of the second season online is because of the promised showdown between the two heroes with similar goals for justice but with contrasting methods.

Daredevil still believes that the legal system is the best way to deliver justice for those wronged by Hell’s Kitchen’s bad guys and does not kill (although he beats them to a bloody pulp!) while the Punisher is on a one-man killing spree to rid the city of its criminal elements.

“The challenge for Matt in season two is the emotional journey he has to go on and the coming to terms with the idea that the Punisher is not too dissimilar from himself, and that is immensely scary for Matt… when Frank Castle shows up, Matt views him the same way he views Wilson Fisk,”  Cox says, referring to  Season 1’s primary antagonist.

Who should Daredevil be with?

Charlie Cox thinks his character is very relatable... despite his alter ego being a superhero.

“I knew you would ask me that,” Cox says with a chuckle, when asked whom he believed Daredevil/Murdock should be with in a relationship in the future.

In Season 2, Cox says his character is drawn towards Elektra and Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) but is torn between the two women as they represent the duality in his life as Murdock the lawyer and Daredevil the vigilante.

“I think that what’s interesting is the relationship, the dynamic between Matt, Karen and Elektra in Season 2 — they both bring out a side of Matt that is authentic, (but) neither of them get the full package.

“With Karen, it’s the Matt Murdock he always wanted to be… the kind of person he’s always seen himself as, the kind of person his father wanted him to be.

“But Karen doesn’t know about Daredevil and it’s undeniably a huge part of his life,” Cox said.

“But with Elektra, she knows all about Daredevil, she accepts that and encourages him in the way that no one does...  she tries to draw out in him a disregard for law and order… which isn’t who he is, which always made him uncomfortable, she thinks he’s something that he’s not , which is why he’s torn and drawn between these two women.”

But the actor believes that Murdock has a better chance at love with Page, and not Elektra.

All 13 episodes of Season 2 can now be streamed on Netflix, after they were released simultaneously on March 18.

Netflix was made available in Malaysia back in January, with subscription priced at between RM33 and RM51 a month.

The US video-streaming service has become increasingly popular over the years, with popular television shows being made for Netflix, including House of Cards, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Jessica Jones and Narcos.