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Wilson Bethel breaks down the epic Bullseye diner fight scene on Daredevil: Born Again<\/em> season 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The actor digs into Bullseye’s bigger role this time around and shooting the diner brawl in one day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “It was something like 80 different setups, and we just went absolutely crazy,” he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Warning: This article contains spoilers from Daredevil: Born Again<\/em> season 2, episode 4, “Gloves Off.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Wilson Bethel is visibly vibrating with excitement when talking about his role as Benjamin Leonard Poindexter, a.k.a. Dex, a.k.a. Bullseye, in the second season of Daredevil: Born Again<\/em><\/a>. It’s because he didn’t have that much to do back in season 1. In Marvel’s defense, he came in as a later addition after a few episodes had already been shot and a creative overhaul ensued to Frankenstein-stitch together the full nine episodes.<\/p>\n Now, the man who never misses is back in a much bigger way.<\/p>\n “I knew pretty much from the outset of shooting season 2 that I was gonna have a lot more to do,” Bethel tells Entertainment Weekly<\/em> over Zoom in March. “Obviously, you never know what that means. Dario [Scardapane, showrunner] sketched out a few things for me, but nothing could’ve prepared me for the diner scene, nothing could’ve prepared me for some of the great work I got to do with Charlie [Cox]<\/a> in the church.”<\/p>\n The season 2 premiere ended on a brief tease of Bullseye’s return: a throwing knife scrawled with the message “You’re Welcome.” However, episode 4, titled “Gloves Off,” is Bullseye’s episode. It begins with one of the most riveting action set pieces on the new era of Daredevil<\/em> yet. Police swarm Dex inside a diner as he calmly sips from his milkshake. In the ensuing cacophony, Bullseye matches his skills at weaponizing silverware against his assailant’s gunfire.<\/p>\n Before Bethel got his hands on the season 2 scripts, Scardapane gave the actor his pitch for Bullseye. “Dex has a guiding principle,” Bethel recalls of that pitch. “He sort of has his north star back, that he had in the past with Julie and with his therapist, and that gives him a sense of purpose and a little bit of a sense of lightness.”<\/p>\n It felt, to Bethel, more in line with the spirit of Bullseye in season 3 of Netflix’s Daredevil<\/em> when you see Dex “enjoying being a lethal motherf—er and a total apex predator.”<\/p>\n “That’s what we get to see in Born Again<\/em> season 2 for the whole season,” he adds. “Dex has this guiding principle, he feels good about it, doesn’t matter that the rest of the world doesn’t see it remotely his way. So it means that he’s got this pep in his step, and when he’s murdering 100 people in a room, he couldn’t feel better about it.”<\/p>\n On the page, the diner scene is but a blip, “the roughest sketch” for the stunt team to them expand upon, Bethel says. He remembers his line in the script, “No, I’m one of the good guys,” which was all he needed to know this sequence was going to be something special. “That’s the whole beauty of this f—ing character,” Bethal exclaims. “This whole season is him thinking he’s one of the good guys” \u2014 even as Bullseye kills 50 or so task force agents with forks.<\/p>\n