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Jon Bernthal Talks The Punisher Going Forward

Jon Bernthal's portrayal of Frank Castle / The Punisher in season two of Marvel's Daredevil was not only one of the highlights of the critically acclaimed series, but encouraged Netflix to expand it's deal with Marvel to give the character his own series. Bernthal talked with ADTV about Castle, what we've seen and what happens next.

The Frank Castle you find in this story is not The Punisher. He's reeling from the loss of his family. He's driven by rage and is on a singular mission to find these people who took his family from him, and do it as brutally as possible. I also believe the way in which he fights tells you volumes about the character. There's a story with each and every punch, and they allow us to approach it like that.

He also talked about the emotional scene that allowed him to expand the character in violent directions.

A big part of this guy is a guy searching for himself. He's got pain, regret and remorse. There's the graveyard scene where he opens up. He delivers this scene where he explains what it's like to come home and see his daughter. It was such a gift from John C. Kelley. I had been away from my kids for three months, and I was at the crux of my own torture, going through that.

I really tried to drive into what this guy was going through. Not only was it beautifully written. What it allowed was a man who doesn't open up much, doesn't share, who has been alone, and this circumstance found him where he didn't think he'd be able to get up from that gravestone. He has this opportunity to open up. Those moments and that speech gave me the ammunition to go as far as I wanted the other way. You could be as brutal as possible, as depraved, as tortured as possible because at that moment, the audience got to see what was going on in that man's heart, and he's unbelievably human. He's in an unbelievably amount of pain. That speech was the anchor of the season for me.

Marvel's Daredevil season 2 is available now on Netflix.

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