The second season ofDaredevil has finally arrived, and the new episodes are packed with some of the most intensefightsequences ever staged for a superhero story. In Rolling Stones exclusive video interview with series fight and stunt coordinator Philip J. Silvera, we go behind-the-scenes of Marvels most brutal show.
A veteran of films like The Dark Knight RisesandDeadpool,Silvera is the guy who makes the martial-arts action scenes and hand-to-hand combat inDaredevillook as realistically bruising as it is does, and this never-before-seen rehearsal footage makes it clear that his job is almost as punishing as the fights themselves. The prep is never easy, he says, smiling, because were doing a feature film every nine days. Illustrating that challenge with his personal set photos and pre-visualization video of the first seasons famous hallway fight scene, Silvera shows us what makes these bone-crunching set pieces on this show so special. To see his work in action, check out the stairwell brawl in the Netflix shows new run of episodes, which Silvera promises is like the one-shot fight [from Season One] on crack.
Season Two ofDaredevilis now available to streamon Netflix.