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 position 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 mentioned on Jimmy Kimmel Reside in April 2025. “We truly 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 in all probability lots of people that need to be Spider-Man. I imply, you’re tremendous proficient and all, however the odds are type of in opposition to 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 word, ‘Tom, possibly it is best to run up that wall and do a double backflip after which begin the scene.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you assume I ought to do this? That’s not an excessive amount of?’”
Bernthal quipped, “It’s not that I take duty for him [getting cast], however you understand, like a little bit one thing.”
