Echo’s Alaqua Cox Reveals Why Kingpin Cares So Much About Maya

Dropping on both Disney+ and Hulu on January 9, Echo is the first series under the brand-new Marvel Spotlight banner, starring Alaqua Cox as the new anti-heroic addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Joining the ranks of other so-bad-they're-good characters, like Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Loki (Tom Hiddleston), and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), Maya kicks off her arc in a five-episode season that features a very special reintroduction to the MCU family. So, who is Echo?

Technically, Maya Lopez first appeared in the Disney+ miniseries, Hawkeye, with Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner. The young mafia leader had tragic ties to Clint Barton's (Renner) vigilante identity, Ronin, which set Lopez up as the antagonist in the miniseries, and teased her relationship with Daredevil's big bad, Wilson Fisk, i.e. Kingpin (Vincent D'Onofrio). In Echo, more of the teenager's past is revealed as she goes on a journey of self-discovery, from the adoptive daughter of Kingpin, and one of his most trusted allies, to her estranged Choctaw family in Oklahoma. Echo also stars Charlie Cox, Graham Greene, Devery Jacobs, Zahn McClarnon, and Chaske Spencer.

In this interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub, Cox addresses her morally gray antihero status, and how being the lead of Disney+'s first TV-MA series allows for a bold, violent look at the trauma experienced throughout Maya's life on her road to becoming Echo. In another Collider interview, it was previously revealed that Echo won't have the same powers featured in the comics, but Cox does tease how they change in the series, as well as discusses her relationship with D'Onofrio's Kingpin and getting to work opposite the Emmy-nominee. Check out the video above, or the full transcript below, to find out more about the multiple underrepresented communities both Maya Lopez and Alaqua Cox give voice to, and more!

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