Charlie Cox

In a world where Marvel is king and privacy all but dead, the man behind Daredevil tells us why it’s important to remain, if just for now, masked.

- Meredith Alloway

Q1: Do you find it’s a struggle to be on a popular Marvel show and at the same time try to maintain your private life?

COX: It think I’ve managed to keep my private life very private. That wasn’t born out of any intense feelings toward privacy, though I think it’s quite normal and natural to want to be able to have a private life. I think it’s partly due to the fact that I don’t engage in social media. I also don’t think I entirely trust myself with social media. I wouldn’t want to have a bad day and end up tweeting something without having really thought it through. You can’t take that back.

Q2: What else don’t you like about social media?

COX: It’s just not in my DNA. Occasionally someone will show me Ryan Reynolds’s handle. He maintains his privacy, but he’s very funny, and he says some interesting stuff. I guess he kind of gets it right; he knows exactly how to manage it. I read an interview years ago — I think it was with Matt Damon, who said that he doesn’t like doing interviews. He tries to do as few interviews as possible, because he doesn’t really want people to get to know who he is as a person; it might make it harder for them to believe him as his character. I remember thinking, That’s a really good point.

Q3: You’ve worked with some superb actors over the years — women in particular, including Claire Danes, Kate Mara and Krysten Ritter. Have you ever fallen in love with a co-star?

COX: Yeah, many times.

Q4: Can you tell us about that?