Dave Davies
speaker
5,382 appearances
57 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Sep
Dave Davies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He grew up in Washington, D.C., a baseball player better known for fighting than acting.
And by his own telling, he was a kid headed in the wrong direction.
An acting teacher saw something in him and sent him of all places to one of the world's toughest classical theater conservatories in Russia.
He returned transformed.
co-founded a theater company, performed in dozens of stage productions, and spent years grinding through sitcom guest spots and small film roles before his break finally came.
In The Odyssey, Bernthal makes his Christopher Nolan film debut, playing Menelaus, king of Sparta.
A few weeks into production, in the Moroccan desert, the cast shot the Trojan horse sequence, one of the film's most iconic scenes.
Matt Damon's character and more than a dozen warriors cram inside the belly of the horse, waiting to invade Troy.
The horse sits partially submerged, and Bernthal draws the short straw, neck deep, treading in freezing water that was supposed to be heated.
And word has it, as Bernthal stood there shivering, Nolan offered to pull him out, but he refused.
John Bernthal, welcome to Fresh Air.
Why did you refuse to get out of that cold, freezing water?
It's interesting that Damon said you pushing through that uncomfortable moment.
I mean, like really, because it was the hardest role he said he's ever played just physically.
And so to see you sit in that uncomfortable situation actually pushed him to
push through his discomfort.
Tell us a little bit about that character and the significance of you being submerged in that water for all of that time.
Well, you have had quite a busy few years.
And the other film that's coming out is Spider-Man.
You've played Frank Castle for 10 years.
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