Jon Bernthal

there's nobody who's working harder on that set than he is.

And the directors that I've gotten to work with, you know, like Denis, you know, Scorsese or Polanski or, you know, I mean, there's so many of them.

You know, they're all so enormously different.

But the thing that...

I feel like is uniform among all the greats for me.

I don't know if you guys feel this way, but you know, they've done so much work.

They know it so intimately well, but there's really an atmosphere of exploration and freedom once you get to work.

And I find no bigger sort of telltale sign of mediocrity than people who it has to be a certain way.

I couldn't believe that within this unbelievable structure and this unbelievable understanding of exactly what he wanted, you know, he still both inspired and not just allowed but demanded, you know, real freedom and creativity within every moment.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And, you know, I think in these films, you know, I did this movie, Fury, some years back.

Oh, yeah.

And I did the Pacific, which was sort of the next in the band of brothers.

And, you know, there's these movies sometimes where there's a group of guys and you're all just sort of like slogging it out together for the thing and you forge these unbelievable relationships.

Yeah.

You know, and there's a group of men in this movie that, you know, were Odysseus' men, were Matt Damon's men.

And it was this group of actors.

You know, they did eight months in like eight different countries, worked so incredibly hard.

And, you know, what was cool is, you know, I was only on the movie for a couple months.