Daredevil's stunt co-coordinator Philip J Silvera has revealed that the visceral fight scene in the show's second episode, featuring an exhausted Matt Murdoch (Charlie Cox) beating up child traffickers through a dimly lit corridor, was a "pure, one shot fight".

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"Phil Abraham was directing, and it was always scripted that this scene was going to be a one-shot" Silvera told The Observer. "For me in my head, with the time, we had, I said let’s do wipes and we’ll be able save things. But Phil challenged us to do a pure one-shot, which really just brought a grounded real feeling to the whole thing.One would assume that such a complex fight scene would take weeks of planning, but Silvera revealed that wasn't the case."We had maybe a few days to set up that fight. You know, most feature films would get weeks to rehearse something like this. Even the remake of Oldboy [which the scene draws clear inspiration from] probably had at least a couple weeks to plan this. We had literally days. I felt like the New York stunt community stepped up in a big way. To me, it’s going to be a highlight of the show."Enjoying Daredevil? Check out our review of Season 1.

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