Jon Bernthal- secret star "Me And Earl And The Dying Girl"
Sept 19, 2015 21:13:04 GMT -5
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Post by Ripley on Sept 19, 2015 21:13:04 GMT -5
"...Others can hash out those contradictions among themselves. I’d rather take a detour and talk about Jon Bernthal, who has a small but indelible part as the protagonists’ cool, overly tattooed history teacher. Over the last five or six years, Bernthal has been using guest appearances like this to carve out an intelligent, oddball career that is a pleasure to behold. I first noticed him when he appeared in The Pacific, the 2010 sister series to Band Of Brothers; in Polanski’s The Ghost Writer; and then as the horribly compromised ex-cop in The Walking Dead, in which he was underused and too soon dispatched. But he stole several moments in The Wolf Of Wall Street, including the movie’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it signature scene – “Sell me this pen!” – and distinguished himself from all the other sociopathic dead-end kids on Scorsese’s riotous trading floor.
Once you become aware of an actor such as Bernthal, you suddenly notice the 10 years of work they did when you weren’t paying attention (I had this with Bobby Cannavale and William H Macy years ago). There he is in cancelled one-season TV shows (The Class) and making luminous low-totem sitcom guest appearances (How I Met Your Mother). And then they let him off the leash for his role as a hillbilly tank mechanic in David Ayer’s half-great war movie Fury, in which he produced as fine an archetypal Appalachian redneck warrior as any army – or movie – could hope for: vile-tempered, quick to fisticuffs, driven by unfathomable religion and self-defeating clannishness, but utterly reliable as a soldier. Bernthal made of him something out of Flannery O’Connor or Tennessee-era Cormac McCarthy.
Next up, Bernthal will star as The Punisher in season two of Netflix’s Daredevil. Now that he’s finally up top where he belongs, I can’t wait to see what happens next..."
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