Vincent D’Onofrio Reveals How Hawkeye’s Kingpin Differs From Daredevil’s

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Marvel’s series Hawkeye recently concluded with the sixth and final episode on Disney+. One of the biggest surprises this series offered to the fans was the return of Vincent D’Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, also known as Kingpin.

D’Onofrio played the character in the Netflix series Daredevil for three seasons, and he’s also one of the first MCU characters that moved from Netflix to Disney. Charlie Cox also reprised the role of Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, which premiered in theaters last week.

Although Marvel’s shows that aired on Netflix — Daredevil, Jessica Jones, The Punisher, Luke Cage, Iron Fist — were confirmed to be set in Marvel Cinematic Universe, some fans didn’t hold them as canon since neither of the characters and events were directly tangled with MCU movies and Disney+ shows. The most that these shows and movies had in common were references and some locations (like Raft prison). But, that was before Cox and D’Onofrio reappeared in their respective MCU roles. With their return, Netflix shows are now as canon as they come.

Considering that confusion with how Disney’s MCU and Netflix’s Marvel shows are actually connected, some fans wondered if Kingpin that appeared in Hawkeye the very same that appeared in Daredevil. And the answer is yes, just like Cox’s Matt Murdock is. Same characters, only different projects they appear in.

“It’s the same character. Yeah, I mean, the way that we saw it on Hawkeye, or [what] I ended up believing, is that there are [as] many dots connected as we can possibly connect, and some are just impossible to connect. But I think… it’s the same as a lot of the MCU stuff that’s done, that Kevin [Feige] does, and all the incredible filmmakers, you know, they try to connect to the original stuff as much as they can. … But then there’s dots that can’t be connected. And I think we tried to do the same thing with connecting Daredevil to… or Hawkeye to Daredevil and Daredevil to Hawkeye. You know, it’s like that.” — Vincent D’Onofrio for Cinema Blend

Ever since Netflix canceled all of its Marvel shows and Disney got the rights back for the characters that appeared in them, many fans started demanding the return of those beloved characters in new seasons of the shows on Disney+ or at least making them a part of future crossover events that Marvel Studios is planning. Daredevil is definitely one of those characters, and now that we saw The Man Without Fear in No Way Home, we can only wait to find out when and where he’s going to appear next in the MCU.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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