Jon Bernthal
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633 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 8 Jun
Jon Bernthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Have a wonderful night.
Thanks for having me, guys.
Bye-bye.
My wife is disgusted by beards. I just got off of this movie. I just got back from Africa. And now we got kind of word that not the next thing I'm doing, but the one after that, they want to keep the beard. And I think the beard's going to play in it. So like this beard ain't going nowhere.
It's disgusting. And then this thing just accentuates it. So, you know, it's funny, man. I come from a family, like my whole family sort of reminds me. My brothers are really good looking. My nose has been broken a ton of times. I was born with these giant ears. I like hate the way that I look. Yeah. Yeah, me too.
Oh, the Emanuals.
They're the Emanuals of D.C. I'm the middle, but my parents took in a bunch of foster kids and my parents were sort of the parents in DC. They all had their own specific and unique and separate and private relationships with friends. So if you were in trouble, you'd go to my dad. It was really lovely.
I think my dad is really nice. He's a rougher, he's very direct. Where's he from? Enormously smart. He's from Syracuse, New York. Son of immigrants, Russian, Polish. But I don't know that people would lead with nice. Oh, great. When you get to know him, 100%. Right. Fiercely loyal, a great guy to have in your corner. What kind of law did he practice?
So he started off his three cousins that were his best friends and like his brothers growing up. One of them specifically, but they were sort of involved with pretty major bank robbery in Connecticut. And my dad went into law, I think. To defend his friends. Yeah. But then he got into representing radio stations and TV stations.
And I will probably completely mess this up when my other brothers would do this much better. But legend has it that there was a few young businessmen that he became extraordinarily close with. And he was with them from a very, very young age. helping them build their businesses, sort of being their right-hand man.
When you ask me about my dad, the first thing I would say is fiercely, fiercely loyal. He is the guy you want in your corner. He's been in my corner. I've seen him be in other people's corners. No matter what happens, that guy's got your back. Huge lesson for me as a father. Was he a tough father? Definitely. And I think I was wildly disappointing as a son.
He's a head of oncology and orthopedics at UCLA. Went to Princeton, All-American football player. This is a bummer of an older brother to have. That's my little brother.
Shit, bro. It's hard enough. He was, I believe, he was the youngest producer for the Nightly News ever. He won like five Emmys by the time he was 25. He's got more Emmys than you. He sure does. I mean, the joke in my house, getting back to the ugly thing, is that if I had my brother's looks, I'd have five Oscars right now.
You know, when you first start out, and I've said it before, you're just facing sort of like this avalanche of rejection. I think the first thing we go to as human beings is, oh, I'm disgusting. It's because my ears are big. And I do remember palpably walking into rooms where the casting director looked up and was sort of like, oh, you know, but I think, no, no, no, for sure.
But I do also think it's because, look, in the beginning, I'm trying to be on soap operas. I would be in the waiting rooms and see these beautiful men and just be like, this ain't gonna happen for you, bro.
But there was never a part of me like, oh, you just wait. When I get my hands on some meaty, it was always, I suck. This isn't going to work for me. It's your gross. But what a blessing in the long run, because I do think that there is a thing for folks that I've seen.
And I don't know that it necessarily means because of their looks, but I have sort of come up with people where I thought, wow, they've really got this whole thing kind of licked. And they play beautiful young men.
But then when it comes time to play a father or to play a soldier or to play a cop or to play somebody who's really worked with their hands, honestly, whether they've done that or not, I think it really can become a hindrance.
I think so. Yeah.
Well, friends, it's really coming full circle right now because I'm trying to decide what we're doing with our kids next year. And, you know, I don't know if... We have 10 and 12. Do you have babies? Mm-mm.
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