Vincent D'Onofrio

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The latest season of Daredevil: Born Again just dropped a couple of weeks ago. Vincent D’Onofrio stars as Kingpin, the show’s main antagonist. Last year, he joined us to talk about reprising that role in the show and even shared some details about how the costume he wears for the part was made. He talked with us about some of his most memorable roles, including parts in Men in Black and Homicide: Life on the Street.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:23.1	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:26.0	Sugar in water.
0:33.4	Two ingredients that make, I have simple syrup, hummingbird food, a sticky mess.
0:35.0	No thank you for me. So sugar in water as a line from Men in Black
0:40.4	delivered by my guest Vincent DiNofrio
0:42.3	who is playing a giant cockroach space alien
0:45.2	inhabiting a man's body.
0:46.9	Well, that's iconic.
0:51.5	Edgar, what on earth was that?
0:53.6	Sugar.
0:55.2	I've never seen sugar do that.
0:58.5	Give me sugar.
1:05.3	In water.
1:07.7	Men in Black is, of course, but one chapter in Vincent Dinoffrio's career. He is a remarkably
1:13.2	physical, remarkably versatile actor. He played Gomer Pyle in full metal jacket, a role for which
1:18.7	he gained 70 pounds. For 10 years, he was Detective Robert Gorin on Law and Order Criminal
1:24.1	Intent. And more recently, spin in the Daredevil series from Marvel.
1:28.9	He plays Kingpin, the Crime Overlord Supervillain, and Foil to Charlie Cox's Daredevil.
1:35.7	When I talked with Donofrio last year, Disney Plus had just revived the show as Daredevil
1:40.0	Born Again. The latest season in that series just dropped a couple weeks ago. Here's a clip from the
1:45.8	original run of the show. Kingpin, whose real name is Wilson Fisk, is in jail. He's been locked up by
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