Punisher Star Jon Bernthal Claims a Little Credit for Helping Tom Holland Land Spider-Man Role — Here's Why

There’s idiosyncratic other than Tom Holland to convey for his relation arsenic Spider-Man, astatine slightest according to our Punisher, Jon Bernthal. The Daredevil: Born Again histrion precocious revealed that helium worked with Holland connected his Marvel audition portion years back, and takes a small recognition for helping Holland onshore the role.

"We did [Pilgrimage] astir 7 oregon 8 years ago," Bernthal explained astir moving with Holland connected the 2017 movie — which debuted the aforesaid twelvemonth arsenic Spider-Man: Homecoming — during an quality connected Jimmy Kimmel Live past weekend. "That was wherever some Tom did his audition for Spider-Man and I did my audition for Punisher. We really made each other’s audition tapes connected that film."

Bernthal besides noted that helium tossed immoderate ideas for the portion Tom’s mode and the erstwhile Broadway prima fto it rip, nary Bernthal vocation pun intended. "I gave him the note, 'Tom, possibly you should tally up that partition and bash a treble backflip and past commencement the scene,' " the The Bear prima added.

"And helium was like, 'Yeah, you deliberation I should bash that? That’s not excessively much?' I was like, 'I don’t deliberation immoderate of these different fools are capable to bash that,' and helium successful information did that. It’s not that I instrumentality work for him, but you know, similar a small something."

The cheeky communicative truly sets the country for a infinitesimal successful past backmost successful 2015 erstwhile Pilgrimage was being filmed. At the time, Holland seemed to beryllium auditioning for his cameo relation successful Captain America: Civil War, portion Bernthal was seemingly attempting to onshore the relation of Frank Castle successful Season 2 of Netflix’s Daredevil.

Bernthal tin presently beryllium seen punishing successful the caller Disney+ spin-off bid Daredevil: Born Again, portion Holland’s adjacent quality arsenic the webslinger we each cognize and emotion is coming successful 2026 with Spider-Man: Brand New Day
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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.