Jon Bernthal
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
She's seen the worst of me, hopefully the best of me.
And had my first child in the beginning of season two, surrounded by...
people who had young families doing this work and the work still meant so much to them and they were just family and work.
But yeah, I think with Frank Darabont and that show, none of us in a million years thought it was gonna be kind of the juggernaut thing that it was.
And it's funny because if you, you know, if you put, you know, six or seven people out in the woods and you say, okay, there's zombies out there, if one person isn't going 100% towards that fucking truth, it's like everything else is bullshit, you know?
So the show was just such kind of total commitment right from the beginning.
And yeah, it's... I was just so grateful to Frank and so grateful to be a part of that show.
Well, look, I mean, I think that I think that there's something I don't know if you guys feel it being, you know, with everything you guys have done and who you are.
But for me, I know the healthiest relationship that I can have with this thing is to just to be hungry and to not.
really be at any place of arrival and what I love about it it's the same thing I love about being a dad is that the only thing that's for certain is you're gonna fucking fail you know like you're gonna mess up and you gotta like you gotta own it and you gotta acknowledge it and you gotta work through it and each one of those mess ups and each one of those failings is such an unbelievable opportunity for connection and teaching and growing together for both you and your kid and I feel so I
I feel like it's the exact same with what we do.
And I'm, again, I'm just like very, very grateful that I get to do something that I can always just, I'm always chasing and trying to get better at.
And like right now, like doing this play, like to be at this age and at this point in my life and still be terrified is such a thrill.