When Tom Holland auditioned for Spider-Man, he occurred to be engaged on a movie with Jon Bernthal, who was auditioning for the function of The Punisher on the identical time. The pair helped one another with their audition tapes, and Bernthal lately advised Jimmy Kimmel that he likes to take a “little” credit score for Holland profitable the function of Spidey.
“We did a film about seven or eight years ago,” Bernthal mentioned. “That was where both Tom did his audition for Spider-Man and I did my audition for Punisher. We actually made each other’s audition tapes [working] on that film.” Bernthal added that Holland “actually believed he was going to get it.“
“I was like ‘There’s probably a lot of people that want to be Spider-Man, I mean, you’re super talented and all, but the odds are kind of against you, but yeah, let’s make the tape,’” he mentioned. “He simply had this perception, and once you get to know him and see how he exhibits up, there’s a cause why he’s the film star that he’s.“
As for that “little” little bit of credit score, Bernthal says he was the one who inspired Holland to do a stunt in his audition. “I gave him the observe, ‘Tom, maybe you should run up that wall and do a double backflip and then start the scene.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you think I should do that? That’s not an excessive amount of?’“
“I was like, ‘I don’t think any of these other fools are able to do that,’ and he in fact did that,” Bernthal mentioned. “It’s not that I take accountability for him, however you already know, like somewhat one thing.“
In case you’re questioning which movie Bernthal and Holland had been engaged on once they booked their Marvel roles, that will be Pilgrimage. The movie takes place in Thirteenth-century Eire, and follows a gaggle of monks who should escort a sacred relic throughout a panorama fraught with peril. It’s darkish, gritty, and exceptionally brutal. Bernthal and Holland are set to reunite in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which can hit theaters on July 17, 2026.
