This article contains spoilers for Daredevil: Born Again season 2, episode 7Daniel Blake wasn’t supposed to die in the penultimate episode of Daredevil: Born Again’s second season. According to showrunner Dario Scardapane and star Arty Froushan, who plays Wilson Fisk’s lethal right-hand man Buck Cashman, the scene where the Deputy Mayor gets shot to death originally played out with Buck letting him go and then lying to Fisk about his decision.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});“The way that it would have gone is that [Blake] stayed in the Fisk administration,” Scardapane told Variety. “He goes in to resign and the new interim mayor is like, ‘I’m not taking your resignation. I’m going to keep you close because I don’t trust you.’”Blake had been partially redeemed during the upsetting episode when he refused to kill his love interest, the rebellious journalist, BB Urich (Genneya Walton.) However, when they were editing the latest installment of the Marvel show, Scardapane said that Blake’s more upbeat fate felt wrong and unearned. He then had to break it to the actor who plays Blake, Michael Gandolfini, that his character wouldn’t make it.“I was like, ‘Dude, I’ve got the worst news,’” Scardapane said. “And he’s like, ‘I know exactly what you’re gonna say, and it’s the right choice.’ He felt in that moment that there’s no way he’s getting out of that apartment. It was funny because there were scenes shot of him after that moment, and it really feels like we’re telling the wrong story here. I think it’s a testament to how much we all love him, that we knew this character probably should not survive but we just couldn’t bring ourselves to do it.”A gunshot was then added in post-production, sealing Blake’s fate. “The fact that, as actors, we didn’t know that was gonna happen makes the scene maybe even more compelling,” Froushan explained. “I love Michael Gandolfini like a brother. This season, the whole journey we have together is a movie. So I was gutted. I was really upset. But I think it raises the stakes of the story in a really exciting way that was maybe necessary for that storyline.”Gandolfini told TV Insider that Blake’s death felt “freeing,” adding, “I love Daniel, but it’s so right. Where else is he gonna go? And he gets this little hero’s moment, and it just felt so great, I just felt so lucky. Again it’s hard, you’ve got Bullseye, Fisk, Karen Page, Matt Murdock, and including other like people from the comics, so sometimes, characters that don’t have superpowers don’t have the longest arcs, and they’re there to support the superheroes, which is great, but the fact that Daniel got to have this, I just felt so touched and that they trusted me… there’s only so much screen time that you get every episode, and so like the fact that they gave me a real journey to go on, I was very lucky.”Daredevil: Born Again streams new episodes on Tuesdays at 9pm EST on Disney+.The post Daredevil: Born Again Just Made a Major Change to One Character’s Fate appeared first on Den of Geek.