Jon Bernthal is recalling the time that he and Tom Holland filmed their MCU audition tapes together.
Bernthal plays Frank Castle/Punisher in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, while Holland stars as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. The two of them will also soon be seen in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which will be released in theaters next year from Universal Pictures.
What did Jon Bernthal say about filming MCU audition tapes with Tom Holland?
Appearing on a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bernthal discussed how he and Holland aided one another in making their Marvel Studios audition tapes when filming the 2017 Irish medieval movie Pilgrimage.
“Tom Holland is one of the greatest human beings who ever lived. Let me just start with that,” Bernthal said. “Tom Holland, I can not say enough good about this young man. I love him. We did a film about seven or eight years ago that was sort of like The Odyssey — it was a medieval sort of journey film, but it was made for about one billionth of the budget. Like, literally. That was where both Tom and I — Tom did his audition for Spider-Man, and I did my audition for Punisher. We actually made each other’s audition tapes on that film.”
Bernthal continued, “I mean, he had such focus and such belief, it was so beautiful. He’d say, like, ‘I’m Spider-Man.’ He really believed he was going to get it. I was like, ‘There are probably a lot of people who want to be Spider-Man.’ I mean, he’s] super talented and all, but I was like, ‘The odds are kind of against you.’ But, yeah, let’s make the tape.
“He’s also just this insanely good athlete. All the flips — he can do all that stuff for real. I will take credit that, in his audition tape, he did this thing where he sort of slid into the scene. And I gave him the note, ‘Tom, you know maybe you should run up that wall, do a double backflip, and then start the scene.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you think I should do that? That’s not too much?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t think any of these other fools are able to do that.’ And he, in fact, did that.”
Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.
