We're not the only ones ecstatic with
the upcoming adaptation of Daredevil, Stick the blind martial arts master is
equally excited with the upcoming Netflix exclusive 13-episode series.
While doing press for his latest film
The Barber, Scott Glenn shared his enthusiasm to be playing Stick in Marvel's Daredevil.
It’s really, really exciting.
It’s kinda daunting because I’ve been telling my wife for the last eight or
nine years, ‘how come they’re always having me be this old guy that sits behind
a desk and sends the kids out to have all this fun?’ And for Daredevil,
I loved it because…I didn’t know that world at all. I mean I understood right
away that like in the world of Marvel, the people that I was working with were
either in the 70’s or people your age [20’s] but they all were fanatical about
the world of comics.
Glenn also spoke about playing the
blind martial arts master and mentor to a young and recently blinded Matt
Murdock. Stick, teaches young Matt to increase the potential of his remaining
senses.
I took it seriously and I realized that I had to play
this character not tongue and cheek but seriously and I had to deal with
something that I’ve never had to deal with as an actor in my life, which is
being blind, and all of a sudden I’m kind of playing a character like Zatoichi,
the blind swordsman. I’m a blind assassin and a martial arts master. So it
meant aside from doing what you normally have to do as an actor such as making
real emotional connections with the people you’re working with to move the story
along and things like that, it also meant that you would have to be doing a ton
of martial arts. I mean real Hong Kong Bruce Lee martial arts…blind. I don’t
want to get into too much of the show but I was going to have to deal with that
stuff for the first time in my life, so that was exciting, demanding and fun.
Daredevil premiere on April 10th.
Source - Nuke The Fridge
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