The Defenders’ Charlie Cox reveals shock at Sigourney Weaver casting

Daredevil star Charlie Cox has said he did not know he would be starring opposite Sigourney Weaver in The Defenders until the day it was announced at New York Comic Con.

Cox will be uniting with his fellow Marvel TV stars in the new Netflix show, which sees Daredevil, Luke Cage played by Mike Colter, Iron Fist played by Finn Jones, and Jessica Jones played by Krysten Ritter, all come together for a new series.

He told the Press Association: “She’s an icon. I got a phone call from Jeph Loeb (exec VP and head of television at Marvel) before we showed up for the reveal at Comic Con in New York .

“For an actor to meet someone like Sigourney Weaver is a big deal so I had an impulse and luckily nobody handed me the mic and I didn’t get to do this but i had the impulse to say ‘in Hell’s Kitchen no-one hears you scream’ which i thought would have been fun and cool.

“But it could have been offensive, I don’t know.”

He said: “We had charts like mad people. We had charts of where JJ left off, charts of this is what is happened in Luke.

“When we started writing Iron First hadn’t come out so it was just ‘this is everything we think will happen on Iron Fist, this is what happened between seasons’.

He continued: “When we started Defenders, the Iron Fist writers’ room had just started so when we asked what happens in episode 13 they didn’t know.

“We all had to play ball at the same time and figure out that is where it ends so this is what we can do.”

The merging of storylines also presented challenges for Cox, who said: “It is linear but the nature of the final episode of any TV series is there is some kind of climactic ending or something has happened or changed.

“And then you factor it in and keep that journey and trajectory authentic.”

The Defenders starts streaming on Netflix on August 18.