RETURN OF THE KING

Vincent D'Onofrio on Wilson Fisk's terrifying rise to power

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How have the events of Hawkeye and Echo affected Kingpin?

They were kind of different iterations of the Fisk from the original show. My job is to service the story. Hawkeye was one style of show, very far away from the Netflix series, and the way Fisk was written itself - which was really good - was a completely different world. When I did Echo, they leaned into the grittiness, but when it came to Fisk, it still was not quite the original thing. We've had the chance now to do it the way we wanted to do it.

Do you think the vision for this show became clearer following the creative overhaul?

I felt the character lives best in a down-to-earth, gritty world, darker story. There are things in this new series that Charlie and I weren't even sure were going to make the cut, but they did. We went really dark at times. [With the first version of the show], Charlie and I were saying, "We're not doing it right yet. We need to start again." We pushed for that. And we were lucky that these guys who run Marvel supported us.

Fisk is reaching for power this season. Is this the most dangerous we've seen him?