Tony Dalton to Reprise 'Hawkeye' Role as The Swordsman In 'Daredevil: Born Again'
Live by the sword, die by the devil, we’ve got an unexpected character return
With Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man already wrapped up, Marvel Studios’s attention turns to its Daredevil revival, Daredevil: Born Again, which premieres on Disney+ on March 4 at 9 PM Eastern. There have been at least 3 30-second spots and two featurettes in just the last week. But here in particular, you’d think after more than three years of work that has already had dozens of attached actors known even after a creative retool that we’d have all of them. Or at least all the biggies. But indeed, we’ll be seeing another familiar face as Tony Dalton, who originated the role of Jack Duquesne, aka The Swordsman in 2021’s Hawkeye (currently mini)series, will appear in two episodes of Born Again.
It sounds as if these two episodes are just for the front nine that have been positioned as the first season. While in the comics he’s something of a villainous mentor to Clint Barton’s Hawkeye (and much Frencher as Jacques Duquesne), their Marvel Cinematic Universe Sacred Timeline selves have nothing to do with one another. Instead, he’s more involved with Kate Bishop, played by Hailee Steinfeld, or more accurately her mother Eleanor, played by Vera Farmiga, as her fiancé. He was in fact a bit of a red herring, framed for his uncle’s murder and stealing Ronin from Clint. But it ended up Eleanor who hired Yelena to assassinate Clint, by the demands of Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin.
The appearance of Kingpin began a reintegration of Daredevil characters back into the MCU, followed two days later by star Charlie Cox as really good lawyer Matt Murdock in Spider-Man: No Way Home, who would then make appearances in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, fully suiting up again as Daredevil here. They would then both appear in the Hawkeye spinoff Echo, which premiered last January. Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle, the Punisher, was the only other returnee confirmed before the creative overhaul, which scooped Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Marianna Fisk, and Wilson Bethel as Benjamin Poindexter aka Bullseye back up. Still, he’s a new character to the Daredevil side of things, so he’s joining a slate of new cast members that includes Zabryna Guevara as Sheila Rivera, Nikki James as Kiersten McDuffie, Genneya Walton as BB Urich, Arty Froushan as Buck Cashman, Clark Johnson as Cherry, Michael Gandolfini as Daniel Blade, Margarita Levieva as Heather Glenn and Jeremy Earl as NYPD Officer Cole North.
As far as Dalton himself, he started out in Spanish-language series and films. Being cast as Lalo Salamanca on Better Call Saul changed all of that. His next film is Trap House with Dave Bautista and Bobby Cannavale, which currently doesn’t have character details or a release date.
Source: Variety