Jon Bernthal wants to clear some things up.
Yes, he stars as Frank Castle, aka the Punisher, an armed-to-the-elbows ex-soldier who goes vigilante after his family is murdered by government black ops, on a Netflix series that premiered in November. Playing a rare Marvel superhero who does not have a superpower, Bernthal uses machine guns, sledgehammers, and the occasional vat of cement to send his enemies into oblivion.
And yes, before he took on his leading role on
The Punisher, Bernthal often portrayed bad guys on screen—really, really bad guys, the sort whose scarred faces and thousand-yard stares told you that trouble was something closer to an inevitability than a mere possibility. Maybe you know him as the lethal sheriff's deputy in the first two seasons of
The Walking Dead, or as the simmering scene-stealer in blockbusters like
The Wolf of Wall Street (in which he played a quaalude kingpin),
Fury (a sociopathic crewman on a World War II tank), and
Sicario (a corrupt local cop with murder on his mind). And yes, in real life Bernthal has gotten into more than his fair share of trouble, finding himself detained for questioning in both California and the District of Columbia.
But he insists that's not what he's all about.
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