Genneya Walton is staying mum on her future in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, but her Daredevil: Born Again character is not to be underestimated. Walton plays BB Urich in the new Disney+ series, a revival of Netflix’s original Daredevil. The character was created specifically for the series, but she’s crucial to Born Again. She’s carrying the torch for her uncle Ben Urich (Vondie Curtis-Hall), a doomed reporter determined to unmask corruption in New York City. In Daredevil’s first season, he’s murdered by New York’s Kingpin, Wilson Fisk — and though Fisk seemed to get away with the act, Born Again positions BB as Ben’s successor... and avenger.
“She’s definitely carrying the torch and trying to finish what her uncle couldn’t,” Walton tells Inverse of BB. Born Again introduces her as the host of her own man-on-the-street newsreel, The BB Report. She falls in quickly with Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), and with his right-hand man, Daniel Blake (Michael Gandolfini), as Fisk becomes mayor of New York — and though it seems like he’s is using her to further his anti-vigilante agenda, BB later reveals that she’s playing “the long game” to take the Kingpin down.
