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
character years guy
You've never seen anything in the Marvel universe that's as grounded, as gritty, as authentic, and as raw as what these guys did last year [in Season 1 of Daredevil]. What an amazing place to bring this character into, to attempt to up the stakes and to make it more dangerous. Hopefully, we were able to do that. But as far as those movies, my concern is this show.
guy bigs gore
I've never been a big gore guy.
jobs thinking audience
I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.
dream figures something-you-love
If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.
bugs
Bugs have always loved me.
new-york careers trying
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.
reading thinking russia
I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and have your director literally act out the part for you is sort of discouraging in a way. It's a very Eastern European thing to do - a lot of directors that I worked with in Russia did that as well. And, I never took that as an insult, as many actors tend to do. To me, I think it's just offering a certain energy - offering their flavor - and, instead of trying to sort of decode and communicate it to you, they just show you their flavor of what it should be.
jobs hate mean
I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
baseball college russia
I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
sports school college
I played sports in high school and in college.
artist people goal
The goal is just to try to get better and better, and the only way that makes sense to do that is to work with the best people. Surround yourself with the best artists and learn from them, and try to sink your teeth into the best material possible.
bigs shoppers
I'm not a big shopper.
reality men thinking
My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.
thinking actors done
I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.