Vincent D’Onofrio Was “Obsessed” with Kingpin’s Big Moment in the ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Finale

As you know, “Straight to Hell,” the finale of the first season of Daredevil: Born Again premiered on April 15, 2025 on Disney+ and with it, the series is done. For now. Of course, a second season has already been confirmed, so, while we’ll have to wait a bit, we have something to look forward to.

But, going back to the season finale, there are some pivotal moments and takes from that episode, especially when Kingpin is concerned. We have to warn you that this article is going to contain spoilers, to keep reading at your own risk.

The brutal final scene featuring Kingpin has been addressed by the character’s actor, Vincent D’Onofrio, and if you want to know what he said, keep reading!

Before we continue, just take a look at this scene:

Taken directly from the final episode, this scene, in which Kingpin literally rips off Gallo’s face and head, is the MCU’s most brutal scene to date. The original Daredevil series did not shy away from violence, but this is a pretty big step forward and something we did not expect from the MCU.

In a recent talk with the press, Vincent D’Onofrio and directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead discussed this scene and how they came to make it happen, and it turns out that D’Onofrio was quite “obsessed” with the scene. “I only say that half joking. He was really the team leader on this thing,” Benson said.

“I didn’t want to participate in what we usually see in movies when people get their skulls crushed. It’s always thumbs in the eyes and stuff like that,” D’Onofrio added. “I just thought that it was important to match the blatant, raw brutality of the decapitation in the original series. That he’s willing to get his hands dirty and in the most disgusting way.”

As for how the scene was executed, Benson said that it was a pretty complex process. “Aaron and I have done, obviously, a lot of work with casting molds and we’ve had that done to ourselves,” he explained. “We didn’t have a lot of experience with the method they used here, which was 3D scanning. We hadn’t had a whole lot of experience with that, and I think that was one of the reasons why we were shocked at how photo-real it was just in camera.“

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