Scott Glenn Is Excited To Be Playing Stick In Netflix’s Daredevil

While doing press for his new movie The Barber, Scott Glenn (“The Hunt For Red October”) shared his enthusiasm for his role as Stick, a blind martial arts master, in Netflix’s new Marvel television series, Daredevil.

“It’s really, really exciting,” Glenn told Nuke The Fridge. “It’s kinda daunting because I’ve been telling my wife for the last eight or nine years, ‘how come they’re always having me be this old guy that sits behind a desk and sends the kids out to have all this fun?’ And for Daredevil, I loved it because…I didn’t know that world at all. I mean I understood right away that like in the world of Marvel, the people that I was working with were either in the 70’s or people your age [20’s] but they all were fanatical about the world of comics.”

The veteran actor is playing Stick in the show. The blind martial artis and mentor to a young and newly-blinded Matt Murdock (a.k.a. Daredevil) teaches the boy to use all of his senses to become even stronger than he was when he had the ability to see. “I took it seriously and I realized that I had to play this character not tongue and cheek but seriously and I had to deal with something that I’ve never had to deal with as an actor in my life, which is being blind,” Glenn explained. “And all of a sudden I’m kind of playing a character like Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. I’m a blind assassin and a martial arts master. So it meant aside from doing what you normally have to do as an actor such as making real emotional connections with the people you’re working with to move the story along and things like that, it also meant that you would have to be doing a ton of martial arts. I mean real Hong Kong Bruce Lee martial arts…blind. I don’t want to get into too much of the show but I was going to have to deal with that stuff for the first time in my life, so that was exciting, demanding and fun.”

It’s time to let the devil out. Marvel’s Daredevil is here to clean up the streets of Hell’s Kitchen, New York. Lawyer by day, street-level hero by night, Matt Murdock is on a mission to make his city a better place against an underground terror within the city.

Daredevil debuts on Netflix, April 10th.