Scott Glenn
Men's Fitness (US)|September 2017

In Netflix’s The Defenders, he’s a blind martial arts master. Offscreen, he’s a 76-year-old skiing, motorcycle-riding, spearfishing ex-Marine who gets in fights about poetry.

Jonathan Rowe
Scott Glenn

Q How does one play a blind knife fighter?

One way to play blind is to look at someone’s mouth instead of their eyes—but that won’t help with stunts. So I use something I learned in the Marines to pick up on ambushes, called peripheral walking: Look straight ahead, but take in only the information your eyes are giving you peripherally. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson did that better than anyone. The trick is to relax and allow the bubble to open. If you force it, it’ll tighten up.

What’s with you and poetry?

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