Tom Holland’s Audition Tape Was a Punisher-ing Expertise
Jon Bernthal, who’s showing as The Punisher on the large display for the primary time in Spider-Man: Model New Day, performed a key function in Holland’s journey.
The Odyssey co-stars have been making the 2017 movie Pilgrimage and “that was the place each Tom did his audition for Spider-Man and I did my audition for [Netflix’s] Punisher,” Bernthal stated on Jimmy Kimmel Stay in April 2025. “We really made one another’s audition tapes on that movie.”
Holland was super-confident, Bernthal famous, so he admittedly tried to mood the teenager’s expectations.
“I used to be like, ‘There’s most likely lots of people that need to be Spider-Man. I imply, you’re tremendous gifted and all, however the odds are type of towards you, however yeah, let’s make the tape,’” Bernthal recalled. However, not wanting Holland to get misplaced within the shuffle, both, “I gave him the notice, ‘Tom, perhaps you must run up that wall and do a double backflip after which begin the scene.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you suppose I ought to try this? That’s not an excessive amount of?’”
Bernthal quipped, “It’s not that I take accountability for him [getting cast], however you already know, like a little bit one thing.”
