Jon Bernthal

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668 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Aug

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Fresh Air · Actor Jon Bernthal on grit, dedication & the teacher who saved him · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

And I always come back to this word, reckless abandonment.

You stop thinking.

You get out of your own head and you just go forward and you try to connect with something bigger.

You know, I do remember kind of coming back to myself with tears down my eyes, you know, with the story that I completely made up.

But then also, you know, noticing while I was telling the story, the sort of grip, the real palpable grip that I had over the other folks in the room.

And I saw the emotion from them.

And I knew that it was something special.

And I knew that it was something very powerful.

Your teacher, your teacher, though.

Alma Becker, yeah.

Her name's right here on my wrist.

I do.

It's of the Moscow Art Theater and Alma's name.

And, yeah, she saved my life, you know?

I mean, she was as—you know, what I found that day with her was a level of vitality—

and, and a level of, you know, I always sort of thought of the arts in, in, in my own sort of naive way that, that, that it was a, it was a soft place.

It was, it was a place of just complete acceptance and, and, and not one of rigor and, and, and, and discipline and, and, and, and real vitality.

Um, and boy, did she, boy, did she give it to me and, and, and, and sort of ripped me apart and, and, um,

She did.

She said, yeah, her punishment was that I had to audition for the play, for the college production.

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