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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Because of the first film, you do get sort of a sense through these flashbacks of how these boys were raised in this really, really unique, violent way by their father. I wanted... Brax, the character that I played, he had to be equally... I didn't want it like one guy's got the affliction and the other guy's got it figured out. It's like, no. He is every bit... Here's one side of the coin.
That's it. They're equally dependent on each other. They're equally in awe of each other. They're equally fucking frustrated with each other. I find with everybody, I don't know if you guys think this with the relationships in your life that are the most important, but I'm constantly...
blown away by the things that i love about people so much are such a close cousin to what i cannot fucking stand about them like it's like the same thing and it can be something totally positive my wife will never tell a lie she will never exaggerate her integrity is so insane but it's like dude if we just say he's sick you know what i mean like we can like
Like we can get through this, but oh my God, I'm so in awe. And so I think you really feel that in this movie, the things that these guys love each other for are exactly what also drives them crazy. And I think it's really honest.
I don't know that. Like I hate, look, being from the Moscow art theater and all that, I do think it's bastardized and it has nothing to do with what that method was.
Fucking Tom's on this Nolan movie too, man. And he was just clowning me. Yes, I was playing a fucking mute. And embarrassingly, we were in this tiny little village in Ireland. And it was one of these deals where... We're all living together at the same little resort. There's nowhere to go. So every meal, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, we're together. So we're not just together on set.
We're together all day, which is great. I love these guys. Wouldn't want it any other way, except I come up with this idea is I'm going to be silent the entire time. So now they've been dealing with this fucking asshole. What if you saw someone was on fire? Bro.
But like the way it all came to an end, which is so embarrassing, is not only do they have to deal with me on set, but we would sit there at dinner. What do you want for dinner? And I'd be like- You know, this is so lame.
Bro, it was so bad. And then there was salmon for every meal. And I'm obsessed with lemon for my salmon. So I wrote on this little notepad to Tom Holland, who was like 17 at the time. I'm like, hey, dude, can you get me some lemon for my thing? I write that down. He's like, of course, can we have some lemon? And the guy comes over and drops the lemon in my soda. And I'm like, fuck. I'm done.
I'm done. I can't do it anymore. That was the breaking point. That was the breaking point. That was one of the breaking points. And I think the thing that is frustrating to people, and certain people are definitely guilty of it, and I really try to catch myself because there is this thing that we want to show everybody how hard we're working. Some of it is performative.
And I have seen people where I've been like, oh, this motherfucker. Like, we all know how hard you're working, dude. Like, great, good for you. But I've also been unbelievably surprised by that.
where I thought that and I was like oh no I will tell you Shia on Fury when I first saw him get back from real boot camp in full fatigue show up at Brad Pitt's house be like I just got back from boot camp G and I was like dude and then eight months later this motherfucker has not stopped for one second being all the way dialed in and he's laying down shit that no one else is laying down he's proving once again to perform on a level that other people can't do other people can't
How do you find folks? To be honest with you, over 90% of the people that I have on are just friends of mine from life that I've just been like lucky enough to get to know a lot of the cops in Baltimore. I have a really weird relationship with it. I've always really felt the need to shy away from getting too much of me out there. That's an old actor trope. It is. I totally get it.
I also think that for me, we don't make money off the show. I don't monetize it in any way. The genesis of it was really after George Floyd. I found myself watching that and knowing that I had to be part of the resistance. It would make me so angry and so disgusted.
And then I had to do something and I would turn on the TV and I would go down there and then I would see people throwing bottles at cops. And I looked at each one of those cops and I'm like, I know these people. their brothers, their sisters, their fathers, their daughters.
And then I would go down to Newton Division where a bunch of my really good friends work and I would go make sure they were good. I just was so sort of disgusted with the national discourse on subjects like that, but especially that where I felt like the folks that were being the loudest
were the people at the opposite poles waving their flags as hard as they could because they were filled with fear and shame because they'd never experienced anything in the middle. They had never been down in that valley where they've actually come face to face with a cop or they've come face to face with somebody from one of those communities. Yeah, yeah.
And then I just looked at my life and I was like, wow, the one thing that I know is the guys that I know who run gangs and guys who I know who have been in that life and are real community minded community activists, the real ones. They can look among their own community and they can tell you who's real and who's not. They'll tell you which one of these guys.
Yeah, he stands for the set, but he's not like that guy ain't the real thing. That dude right there, he's down for it. Like he'll help the lady crossroad. He's down for this community. And they can look across the divide and say that cop over there, he's real. He shows up. There's a kid in our community that has cancer. Since he's five years old, he shows up.
And I've also saw it on the other side with the cops that they can look over and say, that guy's stand up. And then I was like, wait a second. What would happen if I put those guys together? Because in this moment where everyone's an expert, but no one is actually walking the walk. What would happen if you put those two guys together?
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