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

I knew that and she had planned it for me, it was great.

And I remember there was just one time I was like, hey ma, hey ma, will you come in and tell me about my day tomorrow?

And she was like, she got kinda angry, you know?

She was like, Mike, your difference doesn't make, it's just a day.

Like, I guess I didn't understand how that could be, like, how that could be the same person, you know?

Yeah, there's so much in that.

First of all, I just think that the show, too, it's such a deep dive into reality.

Mental health and the fragility of people.

And, you know, look, I had a dear friend of mine who lost his father and he used to talk to me about.

how at certain times at like three 30 in the morning, his dad would be on like the perfect combination of alcohol and drugs.

And he would come into the room and he would just have this sort of level of peace that, so he would just sort of set his alarm.

So he would like kind of always be able to talk to his dad in that state.

And my mom used to come in to my room every night, some nights and, and scratch my back and tell me about my day.

And, and, and, and, and,

I love the fact that sometimes in life we can only really talk about ourselves.

We can really only explain what's really going on with ourselves with complete strangers.

You know, in that scene, I think sort of the thing that's going on in Mikey more than anything else is that he knows that within the same person, he knows he's got exactly what his mom's got.

And he knows that it's a hereditary thing and that it's real.

And he knows that what makes him so special and so attractive and so irresistible just can also make him so repulsive and so dark and so impossible to be around.

I love that in the opportunity of this show, we got to have this sort of reprieve where he got to sort of –

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