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'Daredevil: Born Again' directors Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson chat with THR at the red carpet premiere and talk about seeing their show in a theater - explaining how it's almost like watching it for the first time again. Plus, they talk about joining the project following the creative overhaul that happened.

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00:00I mean it's a big night for you guys how are you feeling the excitement I feel

00:03like this is a cool premiere too you can kind of like see the vibe like from the

00:07carpet as well we actually it's funny we've uh we've been here the last few

00:12days doing press so we've seen this built up around here and it it it it was

00:18already intimidating when we were like walk by it and be like oh wow that's a

00:21lot and seeing it full of people is like man we've had our nose so in there's

00:27making the show and and loving the show and wanting to respect the legacy of

00:32everything to do with it one day you look up and there's a gigantic gigantic

00:36billboard it's kind of wild have any of your friends or family been able to see

00:42it yet or is this going to be the big night oh this is the big night for

00:45basically everybody you know in some ways it's the big night for us because we

00:50come from an indie film career so you know most TV shows don't have a premiere

00:54in a theater but in our indie film career we'd have a like a premiere at a

00:58film festival and that's there's this weird feeling that happens when you see

01:01it in a theater for the first time even though you've already watched your film

01:04400 times and you're sick of it you your emotions just start to become exactly

01:09like what the audience is feeling and you you experience it anew so we're an hour

01:15out from for us feeling like we're seeing it for the first time and of course we've

01:19never seen it in a big packed theater so yeah sure it's such a crazy feeling and I

01:23know for this project there was a big creative overhaul midway through the

01:26season I know they brought you guys in as well so what were some of the

01:30challenges if any that you kind of had to work through when you were brought on

01:33midway through oh you know what in all sincerity it's probably a weird way to

01:41put it but like this is our fifth TV show we've done I think and our third one

01:45with Marvel but TV shows are always as you when you come in as a director they're

01:49always as big Rubik's Cube depicted Rubik's Cube to figure out and our

01:54memory of coming on board of this was like oh my gosh this is so strong and

01:59what and what an honor to get to to also work on it and participate was there

02:06anything different that you were looking to explore or do or flush out even in

02:11terms of the previous iteration when it was on Netflix yeah I mean one of our

02:15favorite things I think we talked about this the other day is is we really like

02:20that Matt is a Catholic superhero because that lets us kind of explore really large

02:25questions of someone's place in the universe right and something happens in

02:31the first episode that makes him really wonder about that and so both in in you

02:37know directing and shaping the scripts and and and the cinematography and all of

02:42that we just wanted to make it feel like this this reckoning with his faith and and

02:48with himself as a human being was being talked about you know so so one example we

02:52give is the the camera work has this kind of omniscient feeling of doom as if

02:57someone something invisible is watching like an angel or a demon or a deity you

03:01know yeah I really love that I know something else that fans are hoping for

03:05looking for looking out for is the Defenders we're missing some you know Iron Fist

03:10Jessica Jones so I was kind of wondering your take on if we can't get them this

03:15season maybe the next season what are your hopes for that so this is what is

03:20called digging for spoilers and I can see it in your eyes

03:24nothing what's great is I love giving spoilers and I'm gonna tell you

03:29everything after the show is out I knew it's too good to be true well how would

03:34you feel about a Defenders movie if we were to kind of round up the truth I mean we

03:40would love yeah we're totally watching we would love Defenders movie these uh we

03:46really gravitate towards these street level characters that are like they hurt

03:54like we hurt whether whether that's whether that's emotional or that's

03:57physical and there's for us there's just an additional layer of tension there and

04:01it's a and it's also a world that we're always been more comfortable playing in

04:06given our background in indie film yeah and finally we do something called the

04:12question where every week we ask a different question to everyone that

04:14walks through the carpet this week since it's Oscars week I wanted to ask you guys

04:18what is one project that you're really rooting for for best picture oh okay I'm

04:24I'm I'm well no it's not there's there's so many good options I'm gonna say a Nora

04:30Sean has been a friend for a while he's the best filmmaker in the world and it's

04:35time for him you know and also of course a Nora rules it's not even just about Sean

04:39uh for me it's a tie between a Nora and uh the substance because uh poor ally the

04:52director we met her at a film festival in 2017 and quickly became friends and um she's

04:58just such a cool nice humble person and she made this just punk rock wild movie that somehow

05:05has been embraced by um by by pop culture at large cinephiles and it's so singular in a in a world

05:16where we're all worried about like that like the dying box office of independent film or all films

05:21you know but but it's uh you see something like the massive success of the substance and the massive

05:26success of a Nora two completely different movies one's a genre film and one is like a human you know

05:32uh uh uh drama and it just shows that like the audience has a thirst for exploring the human condition

05:42even if it's in the form of extreme gore or or it was what Sean's doing yeah

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