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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 had 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 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 in all probability lots of people that wish to be Spider-Man. I imply, you’re tremendous proficient and all, however the odds are form 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 word, ‘Tom, perhaps you need 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 try this? That’s not an excessive amount of?’”

Bernthal quipped, “It’s not that I take duty for him [getting cast], however , like somewhat one thing.”