{"id":806997,"date":"2026-07-17T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806997\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:39:08","slug":"jon-bernthal-on-punisher-giving-fatherly-advice-to-spidey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/806997\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bernthal on Punisher Giving Fatherly Advice to Spidey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\tJon Bernthal talks about his friendship with Tom Holland.Bernthal discussed the fatherly advice Frank Castle gives to Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day.The two actors go way back and that\u2019s why Punisher is in the movie over another Marvel hero.\t\t\t<\/p>\n

The Punisher has a reputation as a very gritty, very violent<\/a> anti-hero. And he headlined the bloodiest live-action Marvel series ever. But as a character, the Punisher began in The Amazing Spider-Man. So it\u2019s fitting that Jon Bernthal\u2019s version of Frank Castle would be in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, even if it seems like a mismatched pair to the casual fan. But in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Bernthal (who is also starring with Tom Holland in The Odyssey), shared how his character makes it a point to show Peter Parker that his path is not one he should follow. Here\u2019s what he had to say about Frank\u2019s unusually kind mentoring moment to our friendly neighborhood Spidey.<\/p>\n

Frank is purpose-driven, mission-driven, \u2018leave me the f*** alone\u2019 \u2014 and I love when there are little cracks in that. He\u2019s like, \u2018Why are you being a dick to her [MJ]? Don\u2019t do that \u2014 that\u2019s what I do.\u2019 To see himself in this and then be a little bit protective like, \u2018You\u2019re trying to do the whole dark thing, don\u2019t do that shit, I do that shit, it\u2019s not fun, do your shit\u2019 \u2014 I love that, and I really buy that.<\/p>\n

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Another reason it makes sense that Bernthal\u2019s Punisher is in Brand New Day,<\/a> over a more obvious Marvel hero? It\u2019s because he and Tom Holland go way back. They met on the set of an Irish film called The Pilgrimage, and remained friends after the shoot. And they both auditioned for their respective Marvel roles at the same time, in 2015. And they were even in each other\u2019s audition tapes. So, in a very real way, it was meant to be that Frank would lend some fatherly advice to Peter one day on screen. Punisher is trying to steer Peter Parker clear of \u201cthe whole dark thing.\u201d It\u2019ll be interesting to see if that advice sticks when\/if Venom comes into the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Movies \u26a1 Quick Take Jon Bernthal talks about his friendship with Tom Holland.Bernthal discussed the fatherly advice Frank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,274089,189641,6860,344,35258,34361,274090,34362],"class_list":["post-806997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-frank-castle","tag-jon-bernthal","tag-marvel","tag-movies","tag-spider-man","tag-spider-man-brand-new-day","tag-the-punisher","tag-tom-holland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}