#new kin again

[nethnad]

watching nuwho and then classic who depictions of the master is so funny you have ten going "i know him... i could detect him anywhere if he was on earth...." and then in the sea devils the master is just meandering around the same building complex as the doctor and it takes jo looking out the window and going "WAIT A SECOND" for him to even notice he's there. bestie your husband is committing crimes as we speak ignore the golf guy for 3 seconds maybe

#the scene where trenchard is going on abt the golf tournament to stall for time and the doctor and jo just look so exasperated... same #they dont even know hes working with the master at that point theyre just sick of hearing abt golf LMAO #anyways building up a new theory in which threegado is basically married but isnt actually #and the whole 'detecting anywhere' is bc thoschei decided to get hitched mid time war so theyd have next of kin arrangements or something #otherwise. all the doctors shit goes to brax :/// he'd just make the tardis a museum piece again #dw #threegado #doctor who #thoschei #third doctor #delgado!master

[kendallsroyco]

HE 🥵

#charlie cox #daredevil #matt murdock #kin amc #michael kinsella #he is soooooo....yum #and i think its funny the only time weve seen charlie's arrow tattoo afaik is on kin #charlie is making it even harder to hide tattoos for born again lol he keeps getting new ones

[greenbirdtrash]

...or they

#my art #mary goore #tobias forge #repugnant #come collect your freak of a man please he's being weird at hot topic again #thank you tender father for the enby confirmation i have a new character to kin now

[charliethomascoxuniverse]

Charlie Cox: ‘I love being a superhero — I thought that ship had sailed’

Charlie Cox on the return of Daredevil, the joys of sea swimming in Dalkey and his rewarding character-driven work in RTÉ’s Kin

Kirsty Blake Knox   April 27, 2023 (X)

Charlie Cox is a busy man; he smiles widely from the back of a car as it ferries him from a physical therapy session to the set of Disney’s Daredevil.

“We’ve just kind of started, it’s really great. Pretty intense, hence the physical therapy,” he says.

Cox has returned to play Matt Murdock, the blind lawyer-slash-superhero.

The show started life on Netflix and ran for three seasons before it was cancelled in 2018.This resulted in an online #SaveDaredevil campaign which resulted in 400,000 signatures begging Marvel to bring him back.

It took a little time; a contractual clause prevented any characters from the Marvel-Netflix shows from appearing in any non-Netflix projects for two years after cancellation.

And now Cox is suiting up again in his Spandex costume, running around punching people in the face and fighting for justice. It’s a demanding shoot — the series is 18 episodes long. And he is a fan of doing as many of his stunts as possible.

“I kind of get involved as much as I’m allowed to and is appropriate. Obviously, the stunt team are professionals and there are things they can do that I can’t even get close to,” he says. “I feel like the name of the game is to get as involved as you can… it makes the scenes more realistic.”

Cox took on the role, which had once been played by Ben Affleck in 2015. At the time, landing the role came as a shock.

“I never thought of myself as being appropriate casting for an American superhero. That never really occurred to me,” he says. “And in my 20s, a lot of my friends, and a lot of British actors, had gone and done that already. So when I got to 30 I was pretty confident that ship had sailed. I was very fortunate to get a character that I’ve now been playing for almost 10 years. It’s unbelievable.”

Cox is a father to two young children (seven and three) but they are a little young to fully grasp the role their dad plays in the Marvel Universe.

“I’m not sure they quite understand… One of the books we read him (his three-year-old) is called Superbat. A bat who is a superhero. But that’s his only real understanding. And so he thinks that I’m Superbat,” he laughs.

Cox realised he wanted to be an actor while in school and studied at Bristol Old Vic drama school. His first big break came in 2007 when he starred in Stardust alongside Robert De Niro and Michele Pfeiffer.

He has performed on the West End and Donmar Warehouse, in dramas like Treason and took on the role of Owen Sleater in Martin Scorsese’s Boardwalk Empire. For Irish viewers, we can see Cox on our screens every Sunday night, as Michael Kinsella in gangland drama Kin.

It’s pretty unusual for Marvel Universe actors to appear in a homegrown Irish drama. But Cox’s wife is executive producing the series. When another project he was attached to fell through, he read the scripts and felt compelled to be part of it.

“I’ve been working probably 20-plus years, and there’s a handful of times where I’ve read a script and felt like I’m reading something written by a truly brilliant writer,” he says. “And that quality of scripts never ceased. Sometimes you can get a really good pilot episode. But then as you get deeper into the season, some of the writing starts to disintegrate a little bit, but with Peter (McKenna) that was never the case.”

Obviously, the scale of production is a lot smaller on Kin than other productions, but he says these productions can be just as, if not more, rewarding to work on.

“If you have a limited budget, the way you handle that is you write long character-driven scenes… So weirdly, the lower budget stuff often is more appealing. Because you get to really get deep into the character and the relationships and the dynamics… it’s sort of like theatre. So, from my point of view, sometimes that stuff is more appealing.”

He continues; “I’ve learned I’m not precious about my character’s involvement. I don’t care much if my character does cool stuff … what I care about is, ‘are they moving?’”

He says this is some of the appeal of playing Michael.

“This life that he’d come from…and now he’s trying to rekindle a relationship with his daughter. [The] vulnerability, and the desire, and the need to fundamentally change his nature. That was really exciting to me.”

Cox perfected his Irish accent by listening to the voice of former Dublin goalkeeper, Shane Supple. He got up to speed with Ireland’s gangland scene by listening to podcasts featuring award winning crime journalist Nicola Tallant.

“I was kind of blissfully ignorant of the whole thing,” he says. “When I actually read the first two scripts, I just thought it was all fiction and then I agreed to do the part and I started doing my research. I was like, ‘oh, shit, this stuff is happening. It’s current and it’s happening right now.’”

Despite the violent nature of the series, he found filming and living in Ireland to be idyllic.

He and his family were based in the seaside village of Dalkey — where Matt Damon was holed up during lockdown. Cox became a sea swimming fanatic while residing there.

“I absolutely loved being there… I had conversations with my wife about moving to Dublin because I loved it so much. It’s not really viable with my job… Season one, we’re in lockdown. We lived in Hanover Quay, which was delightful…

“Season two, we moved to Dalkey. I felt like it was one of the best kept secrets in Europe… I was swimming in Vico every day… I found it to be like a haven. And I would love an opportunity to go back at any stage.”

Cox is extremely polite and amenable. And modest — despite his success, Cox says he still suffers professional insecurities.

“I never think I’m going to be hired,” he laughs. “I read years ago that Christopher Walken always thinks his job he’s doing is going to be the last time he is hired. I don’t quite have that, but I certainly identify with it. I’ve never felt like ‘Oh, I’m always going to be hired.’”

He says this comes with some advantages, as it makes him more present.

“I’m filming in New York and I’m lucky enough that I’m still able to play a kind of a lead in a TV show,” he says. “You know, the time is ticking on that in a big way. And so I certainly don’t want to wish that away.

“It would be easy to kind of bemoan the amount of hours you have to work, and missing the family, but there’ll come a time where I would kill to be able to be the lead in the TV show. I think the trick is to really enjoy it while it lasts.”

As he makes his way out of his car and towards his makeup chair, I ask if he has any projects outside of Daredevil coming down the tracks.

“I’m going to be doing this until the end of the year. And then I’ll be back on the panic station wondering if I am ever going to work again,” he laughs.

~*~

#finally a new interview at last!!! 😁💗✨ #I just spent the last hour running this through at least half a dozen applications to get around the damn paywall #I was starting to worry nothing was going to work 😬 but it finally came through \^.^/ #charlie cox #michael kinsella #matt murdock #kin amc #daredevil #daredevil born again #interview #article

[pricklethistle]

*grabs and runs away like this*

@hound-ish

#yes I know it’s a ringtail lemur #sadly their aren’t as many funny gifs with my exact theriotype #not even any gifs in general tbh #I had to make most of the ones I use on here LMAOOO #otherkin #therian #therianthropy #alterhuman #lemurkin #lemur kin #lemur therian #also I don’t know if this is the correct format for posting stuff like this #again I’m new to this website #Cedar yaps

[everhoods]

ah.... Long pilisophical post deleted..... I was getting somewhere and having a productive thought train.... Ahhh..... Maybe this is a message from god that I should sleep? Ah.... I think I had some good thoughts* tho so I'll bullet point them

*if anyone starts to study kinning/therapist/otherkin as linked SOLELY to mental illness and therefore making it "invalid" or "crazy" we need to arm ourselves. People need to be weird on the Internet ok

*I don't relate to the two psychotic friends I have... one of them uses the Internet a lot and has some unnoticed biases so that's a given. But the other one doesnt and has gone through a lot of trauma but still looks at me weird when I mention being Jesus IN PRIVACY WHEN WE R HASHING THINGS OUT mind you. He just kind of treats me like an anomaly?? :-( I'm actually very fucking tame$ and polite when it comes to talking about who I am so this upsets me. He might just be shitty but I'm nervous about joining a psychosis support group when I've been treated this way by close friends... Even in the fucking psych ward I was "weird" but those are notoriously cliquey and everyone there was from some form of negative twt

*new bullet point but idk if my friends r just ass but I worry I'm too delusional to fit in in psychosis circles... I miss max a lot... She has schizophrenia and was someone I actually felt comfortable bitching with. I hope she's okay :-(

*right but does anybody who is specifically psychotic (having other disorders as well is fine I don't think I know of anybody with only psychosis) feel this way or have their own takes??? Are psychosis and schizophrenia the same spectrum have I just been wrong this whole time??? I know they're close but what I read online tends to kind of just.... Not acknowledge schizophrenia? Like you will see ppl say it's valid hundreds of times but not actually group it with psychosis.... Am I not looking hard enough???? Where do I go for this-- reddit???

*I like to document my feelings and emotions on Tumblr especially since my memory issues get rid of anything that upsets me

$tame as in model student. Tamed animal. No matter how well composed I am or how much double bookkeeping I experience I am isolated and it sucks :-( I don't view myself as better for doing this, neurotypical people supposedly should but it doesn't fuckimg matter lol. I know this already of course, I just do it so I don't get my autonomy stripped from me

#jesse.txt #Oh God this is so long I'm sorry :-( #I'm just very lonely and want to talk about myself without being like looked at weird #I don't mean to only ever talk about being Jesus... I just mean to mention it and not be creeped on #Also if you do choose to respond please don't refer to my status as Jesus as kinning it's just who I am #Also apologies if I worded anything incorrectly in this... I'm very new to this #Oh God this almost deleted again #I had more tags but I might as well post :-(

[ambiguousdisorderken]

something tumblr loves to do is recreating the big bad straw man vegan because it's easier than reevaluating your beliefs and god forbid changing your habits, again and again and again and ag

#oh yes this is about the vegan to ecofasc post #so we are ecofascists because we do not support animal abuse??? #get this. veganism is For the animals. first and foremost. #they are not objects. we do not own them. they do not exist to benefit us humans. we are not entitled to their bodies. #yes! i too used to say oh i could never go vegan. but it's not about me. it's about them. i dont want baby chickens to be ground to death #i dont want cows to be raped again and again just so i can drink milk from their udders wtf #i dont want whales and dolphins to be sentenced to a lifetime inside a tank with no contact with their kin #i dont want another ryder lying on the streets of new york because he was exploited so tourists could prance around #i dont want beagles or rats or monkeys suffering inside laboratories getting experiments done on them #animals do not exist so we can abuse them #i loved fried chicken too much and my favorite food was sushi and i didnt see animals as beings #and all i see now is the mass suffering that we cause and im ashamed and i wish people on this goddamn website understood #because when i was at the supermarket someone made a joke pointing to the dead bodies of baby turkeys frozen and wrapped up in plastic #and they thought it was funny and i would've thought so too before. and now it's just . a fridge with corpses. and we had no right. #and it's victims you're making fun of. it's not vegans. #now go post in support of all other social movements. as long as they're human-centered of course #vegan #boohoo to anyone and everyone getting mad at this or saying i missed the point . i did not . #the only time carnists reblog vegan posts is when said post puts veganism in a bad light. pleather or quinoa or almond milk or ??? #oh but dont you dare compare humans to animals!! why the fuck not . antivegs will be the first ones to say animals eat other animals. #im so tired so fucking tired and it's this tumblr toxic troll behavior whenever veganism is mentioned

[jadeclaymoresworld]

Not Crimson and Clover by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and For the Glory by Kin Palo becoming my two new favourite songs.

#Music #Crimson and Clover #Joan Jett and the Blackhearts #For the Glory #Kin Palo #Willow #Kit Tanthalos #Jade Claymore #Tanthamore #Ruby Cruz #Erin Kellyman #This is Angel Eyes by Billie Ellish all over again #If the song is at a significant point in a sapphic ship for me #you better know its gonna be my new favorite song

[cryptidhearted]

requests :: open!

!! CURRENTLY ON HIATUS !!

inbox:: 14 last updated:: oct 16 2023

WELCOME!!!

this blog is mainly for otherkin/fictionkin, fictives, alterhumans, and anyone like that, but others are free to request things! (like moodboards for characters that you like, not kin, for example.)

i will do any source if i can find enough information on it, but i can and will decline any requests that make me uncomfortable.

sources i'll be really happy to do::

the mandela catalogue, camp here and there, lacey's flash games, the magnus archives, & horror media in general!

WHAT TO REQUEST::

𖤐 stimboards (open!) 𖤐 moodboards (open!) 𖤐 name/pronoun recommendations (open!)

when requesting, be specific! (example: "can you make a stimboard for ____ from ____ with ____?" instead of "can you make a stimboard for ____?"

A LITTLE ABOUT MYSELF::

i am a fictionkin/otherkin minor and i use it/he/hymn pronouns. school is in session for me so it might take a little longer to get requests done.

that's about it for now! thanks for stopping by ^__^

#𖤐 come again soon! - request completed #𖤐 try again later. - request declined #𖤐 news! - not a request #fictionkin #otherkin #alterhuman #irl #system safe #kin request #kin help

[keeps-ache]

got described as looking like a 'canadian lumberjack physicist' by my brother so. does anybody need an artist

#just me hi #could've just used the shorthand 'gay' but whatever honestly loll #𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯. my own kin... #so funny he said lumberjack physicist. two things i'll never be qualified for Hfbhss #and then i said he looked like a youtuber so i might have actually deserved that x10 now that i think abt it HFh #/and i was doing my typing lessons earlier and i had to type out the nato alphabet thing (idr what it's called lol) #i said 'alphaaa..' outloud and my sibling says 'oo who are you texting ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)' 'your girlfriend' #and that Wasn't my fault i was in the middle of some horrible dire straits (i missed the letter P six times in a row <33) #leo if you're reading this. uhhh you were asking for it‚ sorry ! <333 #//in other news i am working on p.space again !! #rewriting Agaaain lol :> #'rewriting' i say as this is the 4th comic rendition i've made #though i want to do a sort of blend between comic and just writing. i just gotta figure out How i'm gonna go about that :3 #i also really wanna write rn so i'm gonna go do that!!! actually super excited to do that #i know full well i probably won't do much but hyped either way :DDD #so on my way now !!!

[a-lonely-dunedain]

The kinship house @hallothere and I are decorating for our rangers is coming together nicely!

...thanks to a little mooching from our rich alts, that is

#she is happy to help actually! this was just a fun excuse to draw her again #after Merilles made that drawing of her I've fallen totally in love with some of the lil flourishes she added to Eth's design! #mainly the frilly sleeves on her shirt and those lovely patterns on her shoulders #really tho I LOVE the new shirt/vest design I need to draw her without the robes at some point #anyway yes. the kin house needs grass floors. for Enrichment. #lotro #lotro oc #Ethedis #Tossdir #Bronagir #(well he's mentioned at least)

[dagaan]

AY! (YOOOOO ANOTHER BIG MAN)

Ay ay ay (gjdkdbjdhd I love your spooky versions of the idols)

Ay! (Hello!)

(and thank you! I don’t really know why I started drawing them like that, but it’s just how they are to me now… glad you like them!)

#ask #I do feel like I should clarify I’m not really a big man (that looks funny out of context) in either the kin or rp blog way #(just in case! since I’ve gotten that before on a different blog with a different character) #I love big man though #mostly just bm themed blog since I needed a new icon #and had a funny little big man doodle #anyway thanks again!! #I feel like the concept art sort of solidified my hcs for deep cut #I love them all so much

[girlkisserr]

if i actually doodled up somewhat shitty summary guides to salmon run bosses individually thats mostly my own thoughts and stuff like that would people be interested in that

#i am by absolutely 0 means: NOT to be taken as a god player btw #but i think im at least relatively capable of telling people some general ideas of what's worked for me and stuff #i played this mode for. Years and again im NOWHERE near a top player or anything but. i think it would b a little funny to express my ideas #lost kin rambles #also im back on that evp grind hopefully rhey dont add new sr stage b4 i get bay 999 also some point lol #hydroplant is going to feel So Weird aft i get this badge hopefully later

[charliethomascoxuniverse]

He who Dares: Marvel star Charlie Cox on moving to Dublin, gangland crime, and perfecting the accent

The Kin and Daredevil star has played alongside greats such as Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, but he says as an actor you never presume you’ve ‘arrived’

By Niamh Donnelly  March 24, 2023  (X) (X)

Charlie Cox is on the move. When I Zoom-call the British actor to talk about his role in the latest series of RTÉ drama Kin, he’s in the back of a car, phone camera swaying slightly from the movement of the vehicle. More precisely, he’s in New York being ferried to and from meetings for what he calls “this new show”.

Cryptic. Might he be referring to the much-anticipated Disney+ Marvel series Daredevil: Born Again in which he plays the title role? He might. “We start shooting next week.”

In the run-up, the 40-year-old has been doing “gym work, and stunt work, and accent work, and just brushing up on a lot of the stuff I would have done before,” he says. “It’s been a while since I’ve played the character in his own show, as it were.”

Indeed, Cox played Daredevil in a Netflix series of the same name from 2015 to 2018. But given the licensing saga that followed, he’d be forgiven for thinking he had long since hung up his superhero suit.

Briefly, a clash of contracts between streaming platforms Disney+ and Netflix left some characters caught in the crossfire. Netflix lost the rights to air anything Marvel-related, while Disney was pumping resources into new Marvel projects and pretending the Netflix version of that world and its characters didn’t exist. Daredevil was one such character. Fans were so miffed that their favourite blind New York lawyer turned vigilante crime-fighter was stuck in no man’s land, they launched a #SaveDaredevil campaign.

Whether for this or reasons pertaining to complex contracts and their expiry, Cox’s hero eventually became the first lead character to cross the threshold from Netflix to Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). He made a cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home, guest starred in She-Hulk and is soon to be “born again” in his new show.

It must be an extraordinary feeling when people campaign to see you on screen. Did Cox’s world change when he became a Marvel star, and was exposed to its fandom?

“When you play a Marvel character, you do immediately become more recognisable, and the fan base is incredibly enthusiastic and passionate,” he says. “It’s great when the fans feel like what you’re doing is good and they appreciate the character that you’ve created, and the show is successful and well regarded. But equally if that wasn’t to be the case, I’m sure it feels pretty lonely.”

Cox hardly need worry about such things: YouTube is chock-full of glowing reaction videos to Daredevil’s appearance in Spider-Man and the buzz around his new show is strong. But even aside from his Marvel chops, Cox has an impressive CV. From his early appearance in the 2007 fantasy film Stardust to starring in two seasons of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and his leading part in the Netflix spy miniseries Treason, he’s amassed a stellar list of acting credits.

His role as Michael Kinsella in Kin might never have come about were it not for his wife, Samantha Thomas, and her role as executive vice president at Bron Studios which produced the drama along with RTÉ. When Thomas first got Peter McKenna’s script, she showed it to her husband.

“Initially, she just thought I should read it because she was interested to hear what my opinion would be,” he says. “And I read it and I immediately fell in love with it.”

Because a Covid lockdown had hit, the prospect of keeping their family together while the pair worked on the same project made perfect sense. Along with their son and daughter, they set up camp in Dublin.

“And it ended up being a really fantastic decision. We had such a great time. We’ve now spent two seasons in Dublin making the show. [During] the first one, we didn’t get to see much of the city because obviously everyone was in lockdown, and it was all just about working. But this past summer, I really got to experience Dublin in its full glory.”

This included partaking in what now seems a rite of passage for Hollywood stars who come to Dublin: jumping in the Irish Sea.

“I did it almost every day. I absolutely loved it. In fact, during the second season of the show, I actually chose living accommodation near Vico [Baths in Dalkey], so I could walk down every day. And for me, the colder the better. I couldn’t have been happier, waking up and getting in the sea before work.”

Whatever was in the water, it must have worked. The first season of Kin, which saw Cox’s character return from jail and attempt to get his daughter back while becoming embroiled in his family’s gangland feud, broke RTÉ drama streaming records with 2.1 million views.

Peter McKenna, Kin’s co-creator and showrunner has remarked that the cast is “probably the strongest thing about [it].” Cox’s co-stars include Clare Dunne (The Last Duel), Aiden Gillen (Game of Thrones, Love/Hate), Emmet J Scanlan (The Fall) and Maria Doyle Kennedy (The Commitments).

What drew him immediately to his role, he says, was the contrast between what we know of Michael and how we perceive him as we follow his story.

“When we meet Michael at the beginning of season one, he’s just coming out of prison. And I felt like it was pretty clear that the man we were meeting was very different from how the family members described or remembered him.

“As an acting exercise, I found that to be quite an interesting challenge: to play someone who has a reputation of being someone you absolutely do not want to cross. There’s a side to him that’s incredibly scary and violent and dangerous, but the man we’re meeting for various reasons is actually in a very vulnerable place and trying to hide that vulnerability from the world.”

Indeed, this sense of vulnerability or morality is something often Cox brings to his more cut-throat roles, be they an MI6 agent (Treason), an ex-IRA enforcer (Boardwalk Empire), a vigilante crime fighter (Daredevil), or a gangland criminal (Kin).

“I always try to approach any character as if it’s a clean slate. So I’m not knowingly trying to do things in a similar fashion. But I always think that there must be more to [people] than meets the eye. And so often when you’re playing, a ‘good guy’, I think it’s important to make sure that you focus on the qualities he has that aren’t maybe so righteous.

“Similarly, if you’re playing someone who’s got a pretty violent history, it’s also important to see the sides of them that an audience might identify with, where you could easily be friends with one of these guys and not know what they get up to in their business life.”

Cox wasn’t familiar with the Dublin gangland scene before Kin, but as research he listened to episodes of Eamon Dunphy’s podcast The Stand with journalist Nicola Tallant.

“I was kind of blown away,” he says. “What I was reading – what our show is loosely based on – is happening right now. It’s current. It’s not in the past. It’s a real thing. You know, that was a little disconcerting to me at first. I was like, wow, I can’t believe [it] . . . this is ballsy.”

Similarly, Cox didn’t have any particular connection with Dublin before signing up to Kin. All the more impressive, then, that he manages to produce a pitch-perfect accent. How did he master such a notoriously difficult task?

“I have an amazing accent coach – two really fantastic accent coaches, actually,” he says.

The first is Poll Moussoulides, a dialect expert who had worked on Normal People with Daisy Edgar-Jones. The second is Emmet Kirwan, the Irish actor.

“I got in touch with him – I’d seen one of his movies, and I felt like his accent was really good. So, I copied [it]. I had him record a lot of my lines.”

Along with Kirwan, the voice of ex-footballer Shane Supple provided inspiration for Cox.

“Poll found this interview with him, and there was a quality in his voice that I thought would be kind of right for Michael. I would listen to that and try and learn [it] by rote. And then once we started filming, I’d stay in the accent all day while I [was] at work.”

The on-screen Cox might make a convincing Dubliner, but the off-screen one hails from East Sussex. He is the son of Trisha and Andrew (a publisher) and the youngest of five, with one older brother and three much older half-siblings. Acting was something he always enjoyed as an extracurricular activity, but it wasn’t until the end of his schooling that he began to take it more seriously.

“I was doing lead parts in plays and enjoying it more and more. It was during the production of one of those plays when an audience member who worked at LAMDA [The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art] came up to me and suggested I might want to audition for drama school.”

Cox took this advice and tried out for some of Britain’s most prestigious acting courses. He ended up at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, but just a year into his studies was offered a role alongside Al Pacino in the 2004 film adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. Because the school had a policy of not letting students take part in outside productions, he decided to leave and make a start on his career.

Cue a succession of screen and theatre roles alongside the likes of Claire Danes, Steve Buscemi, Michael Caine, Robert De Niro and many more. Were there moments along the way when he really felt he had made it as an actor?

“You know, it’s funny because in retrospect, there have been moments where it just feels like everything’s clicking and you’re getting a lot of the jobs you’re going for, and you’re working back-to-back. But in the moment that it’s happening, I have never really felt that way,” he says.

“On paper, you go on IMDB and you see [Stardust and Boardwalk Empire], and that looks like a really clear trajectory. But in reality, I shot Stardust in 2006. Boardwalk Empire was in 2011.”

He also points out that his Boardwalk Empire role got bigger as the series continued.

“When I got it, it was a small part. They only offered me three episodes. And if you think about it, I’d been the lead in Stardust which was a big Hollywood movie. And then in 2011, five years later, I’m taking a three-episode arc on a TV show because things had not escalated in the way that I’d hoped they would from being in a movie with Robert De Niro.”

Perhaps owing to this early wobble, or perhaps because of the insecure nature of acting as a career in general, Cox has always had the feeling of “staring down the barrel of looming unemployment – not knowing where the next pay cheque’s going to come from”.

“I have been very fortunate. The phone has always rung, and I’ve always gone back to work. But there have been, you know, long periods in between. I’ve never felt completely confident in the idea that the work will continue to present itself.”

Cox does however, say that he’s learnt a lot from the uncertainty of his career. “It’s a great discipline, because it really [teaches] you – and it took me quite a long time to learn this – [that] you have to really learn to love the job you’re doing in the moment that you’re doing it. And try not to project too far into the future about where you’re going to be this time six months, a year. Because you can ruin the experience of a really amazing job by worrying about what’s coming next.”

Being in the moment is also key to how Cox approaches acting. “A lot of it is instinct, and a lot of it should be instinct, but for your instinct to be well informed is a really good thing. My experience has taught me that you do as much homework as you possibly can, so that when you’re on set you don’t have to think about it. It’s a bit like sports: an athlete [or] a tennis player. You drill, and drill, and drill all your shots so that when you’re in the game, you don’t think about it, you just play them.”

On the topic of sports, Cox is a devoted Arsenal fan. Will his beloved team, now seated at the top of the Premier League table, pull off the win this season?

“I can’t answer that question. It’s too fraught with emotion for me at the moment. All I’ll say it’s a very exciting time, and I hope we can maintain the standard. I believe it’s possible. I’m starting to believe it’s possible.”

Besides, Cox’s busy life doesn’t allow a whole lot of time for fretting over league tables.

“I have a young family. So right now, whenever I’m not working, it’s spending time with my kids and my wife. That’s my priority. I’m really conscious that when I do work, I work really hard. And I love my work. I’m very grateful to have work. But when you are filming something it’s a huge commitment. So it’s really important to me that I don’t want to blink and my kids are going off to college . . . that’s my whole world. They’re my whole world right now.”

~*~

#hello at last new interview!! 😎💗 #it was a bit of a pain to access since it was behind a paywall but I got finally got through lol #charlie cox #michael kinsella #matt murdock #kin amc #daredevil #daredevil born again #interview #article

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

What does Patience kin?

huh what? why would she kin anything?

OHHHH you're referring to her nickname! -kin/s is a diminutive used in an affectionate manner by her father.

#the kin debate again #<- new tag for wheneve ranyone asks me about kinning

[hskin-spriting]

Hmm. Something about the name Jace calls to me? I will think about this

#mod janey speaks #not kin related #<- ok i lied. a little kin related #as an alternative to Jane not a new chosen name for me (host) i have plenty #But then again #i might add that name to my hoard #delete later maybe