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The Defenders first look: Meet Sigourney Weaver's villain — and learn her name
Come as you are, Defenders. There’s a new enemy in town.
Meet Sigourney Weaver’s Alexandra, the villain of Marvel’s The Defenders impressive enough to draw the attention of Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones). She’s an “utter badass,” showrunner Marco Ramirez says of the character, who is the perfect fit for the Sigourney Weaver, of Alien and Avatar fame. “Sigourney is the kind of person you can buy as the smartest person in the room, who you can also buy as a person holding a flamethrower. Her character is a very powerful force in New York City. She’s everything Sigourney is: sophisticated, intellectual, dangerous.” He pauses. “I’m sorry. I can only say a bunch of adjectives right now.”
A flurry of adjectives sounds about right for Alexandra, and not just because Marvel’s keeping further details about her character under tight wraps, so much so that probing Ramirez for more on Weaver’s character is like trying to stick a needle through Luke Cage’s unbreakable skin. After all, she (or whatever she’s fighting for) has to walk a very difficult, spoiler-ific line when it comes to the team-up series. “We knew it would take something massive to pull these four characters from their individual worlds to work together,” Ramirez says, “but also small enough that it felt like it existed in our world.”
For now, EW has the exclusive first look at Alexandra sitting high above the New York skyline, dressed in angelic, rabbit-in-a-snowstorm white and looking up at… someone?… Or something? She has no code name and no comic-book history, but Ramirez teases that she brings an “intellectual sophistication” that matches former big bads like Daredevil‘s Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). In that case, may we suggest Queenpin as a moniker?
My guess while ignoring her name and I assume age difference:The Defenders first look: Meet Sigourney Weaver's villain — and learn her name
Come as you are, Defenders. There’s a new enemy in town.
Meet Sigourney Weaver’s Alexandra, the villain of Marvel’s The Defenders impressive enough to draw the attention of Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones). She’s an “utter badass,” showrunner Marco Ramirez says of the character, who is the perfect fit for the Sigourney Weaver, of Alien and Avatar fame. “Sigourney is the kind of person you can buy as the smartest person in the room, who you can also buy as a person holding a flamethrower. Her character is a very powerful force in New York City. She’s everything Sigourney is: sophisticated, intellectual, dangerous.” He pauses. “I’m sorry. I can only say a bunch of adjectives right now.”
A flurry of adjectives sounds about right for Alexandra, and not just because Marvel’s keeping further details about her character under tight wraps, so much so that probing Ramirez for more on Weaver’s character is like trying to stick a needle through Luke Cage’s unbreakable skin. After all, she (or whatever she’s fighting for) has to walk a very difficult, spoiler-ific line when it comes to the team-up series. “We knew it would take something massive to pull these four characters from their individual worlds to work together,” Ramirez says, “but also small enough that it felt like it existed in our world.”
For now, EW has the exclusive first look at Alexandra sitting high above the New York skyline, dressed in angelic, rabbit-in-a-snowstorm white and looking up at… someone?… Or something? She has no code name and no comic-book history, but Ramirez teases that she brings an “intellectual sophistication” that matches former big bads like Daredevil‘s Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio). In that case, may we suggest Queenpin as a moniker?
So they are creating a villain just for the Defenders?
Charlie Cox Reveals Where We Pick Up With DAREDEVIL At The Start Of THE DEFENDERS
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Charlie Cox Reveals Where We Pick Up With DAREDEVIL At The Start Of THE DEFENDERS
Charlie Cox Reveals Where We Pick Up With DAREDEVIL At The Start Of THE DEFENDERS
Charlie Cox talks here about what state of mind the Man Without Fear is in when The Defenders starts and how the team feels about coming together to take on the show's still very mysterious threat...
At the end of Daredevil's second season, Matt Murdock revealed his secret identity to Karen Page. It was a pretty major cliffhanger to leave things on, but Charlie Cox has now confirmed that The Defenders won't pick up immediately after that. As expected, the death of Elektra has hit the Matt hard, though with Elodie Yung confirmed to return, that's something he'll be dealing with before long.
"Well, it’s been a few months since the end of season 2. I think it’s been quite a challenging few months for him. He took the death of Elektra very badly —I think he feels responsible for that. One of Matt’s big things is trying to protect the people he loves, which is why he keeps his identity hidden, and he’s failed. He’s left holding the dead body of a loved one, and so I think he’s tried to turn a corner.
It’s almost like quitting an addiction in the hope that it will get easier. He’s perhaps a little bit lost, and the best he can do for now is to not engage in his vigilante activities. When we meet him at the beginning of The Defenders, I’m not sure he’s completely found peace with that idea. I think he’s doing the best with what he can at the time. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, which is the crux of his issue really from the beginning of season 1. 'Should I or shouldn’t I? What is more beneficial to society?'"
The full interview is well worth checking out over at EW as Cox goes on to discuss what it was like being the first Defender and how it felt to shoot the team's first scene together, but the actor's thoughts on how The Defenders feel about having to work with each other here are particularly interesting.
"From what we’ve shot so far, they want to genuinely make a difference and help people out. I’m not convinced that Jessica Jones feels quite as earnestly about that [laughs], but in some ways paradoxically, these great powers are also our great shame. These characters are living with a shame and a loneliness and have felt kind of ostracized. I think they felt like freaks and have been misunderstood. And as sad as that sounds, there’s also something quite beautiful about that. There’s something quite human about that."
With the show now confirmed to premiere in the summer, we don't have long to wait before we get to see these heroes in action as they assemble to protect Hell's City against a still mysterious threat.
honestly Netflix >>>>> MCU
Just ignore his terrible opinions like most ppl do.honestly Netflix >>>>> MCU
Nah
About to finish up s1 of daredevil. Show is amazing. Karen and foggy suck though. How you gonna be mad your boy is a superhero? I would've been hype.
Nah Foggy finds out but Karen doesn't.My memory may be playing tricks on me, but I don't remember either of them knowing who Matt was in season 1