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"As soon as I was cast and people knew, I would be stopped on the street," Garner said. "[They would say,] 'Elektra has been my favorite character since I was a kid!' Especially women. When women would say that to me, I would just be like, 'Oh my God, I can not screw this up.' And you really, really want to give yourself every opportunity to bring this character to life in a way that people won't hate. Luckily Mark Steven Johnson and Ben, they've been Daredevil fans since forever, so they were able to help guide me through it."
As details about the dark but action-packed "Daredevil" film emerged, Elektra-philes raised a collective eyebrow when they got a look at Garner in costume. Gone was the red satin outfit they knew from the comics, replaced by sleek black leather. "I was nervous because I knew right away that fans would say, 'That's not Elektra,' " she admitted. "But I was also grateful to [the filmmakers] for changing it, because the costume has to be functional as well as represent the character. And Elektra wears [the black] in several of the comic books.
"The red would never have worked for hiding a harness," she continued, "and I know this sounds ridiculous, but you have to protect your skin a little bit. They throw me around so much on the rooftop [that] I got cut through the leather, so imagine if I hadn't had anything. ... And people say they were afraid that maybe [the leather] wouldn't be sexy enough. And I was like, 'Oh for the love of God, I hope they think it's sexy enough!' "
Colin Farrell got to throw Jennifer around in "Daredevil," and for him, playing the villainous Bullseye was less about staying true to the comic book than it was about getting a chance to unleash. In films like "The Recruit" and "Minority Report" the Irish actor covered his accent, but Bullseye is from the Emerald Isle. And oh yeah — he's also a complete maniac.
"Mark had a great story that he had written [about Bullseye] that was never used in the film," Farrell revealed. "A bunch of kids in Dublin, on a playground, with stones, throwing them up at birds and trying to hit the birds off. And there are all these birds on electric wires, you see. And the next thing, this little scruffy kid comes up behind them all, smaller than them all, with a handful of bricks [and kills all the birds]. So in respect to him being evil or insane or a menace to society forever, this was never a good guy gone bad."
In the movie, Bullseye is hired by a crime lord called the Kingpin. And as much as Affleck loved Daredevil growing up, it was Kingpin that Michael Clarke Duncan enjoyed reading about.
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Photo: 20th Century Fox
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