Jon Bernthal
Jon Bernthal
Jonathan Edward "Jon" Bernthal is an American actor best known for his television role as Shane Walsh on the AMC series The Walking Dead and film roles in The Wolf of Wall Street, Fury, and Sicario. He portrayed Frank Castle / The Punisher in the Netflix series Daredevil and is set to reprise his role in the Netflix series The Punisher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 September 1976
CountryUnited States of America
career front stage tv
I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.
boxing shy nervous
I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.
art new-york thinking
I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.
fighting thinking athletic
We all come from different levels, and I think every human has their own relationship to violence, athletic violence and fighting.
fighting bully guy
Fighting really does reveal everything to the other guy. It's not just about who can beat up to or who's tougher, it's who bullies who and who goes easy on who. You change from opponent, so it's about how you deal with a challenge and how you deal with a guy who you can handle easily.
wanted bruised beaten
I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.
art new-york mean
I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive
sports teacher art
I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.
country political belief
I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.
thinking inspire looks
I think anytime a movie can inspire you to think and reflect and look at your life, it's a success.
country responsibility thinking
I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.
sleep home fighting
People have different goals, when you start out making a movie. If the goal is darkness and destruction and despair, it's not like, "Hey, let's go to set, and then let's hit the bar afterwards. Let's jaunt into London and pick up some Chinese food." No, you go home from set and you go fight at the gym, and then you go to sleep. You stay in it. You never excuse yourself, you never take it easy on yourself, you never eat good food.
hero people groups
Some people that are heroes to some can be looked at by another group of people as villains. As far as a middle point, just speaking for myself, that's exactly what to avoid.
character men play
At the end of the day, it's a show [Daredevil ] not about a superhero, but it's about a man. Hopefully, that's what we're doing with The Punisher, as well. It's an enormous honor to play this character. It's a character that's quite iconic and very important to a lot of people.