Jon Bernthal on Playing Against the Tough Guy Type in ‘King Richard’

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’s probably your guy. But when you’re looking for an actor who can credibly serve-and-volley, he might not spring to mind.” director Reinaldo Marcus Green when he was looking for someone to portray Rick Macci, the tennis coach who took a chance on a young Venus and Serena Williams. Bernthal has made a career playing tough guys, such as gritty Marvel antihero Frank Castle or “The Walking Dead’s” Shane Walsh.

“It was this meditation on family and fatherhood,” says Bernthal. “My kids are the absolute center of my life, and raising them with discipline and responsibility and teaching them kindness and empathy and rigor are all things I take enormously seriously.” Bernthal even auditioned, putting himself on tape.

Though Bernthal has portrayed characters based on real people before — most recently Lee Iacocca in “Ford v Ferrari” — Macci was unusual in that the actor was actually able to speak to his real-life counterpart. “We talked on the phone, and I spoke to a lot of people who played [tennis] under him,” says Bernthal. “And I talked to Serena, who described her time with Rick as some of the most fun times of her life.

Green is thrilled Bernthal convinced him to go against his initial casting instincts. “Jon is the guy you want with you in the trenches, in the mud,” Green raves. “He is a roll-your-sleeves-up, hard-nosed, fearless actor.” Green adds that Bernthal more than held his own improvising with Smith, and formed a real bond with Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton, who play Venus and Serena.

And Bernthal kept his word, returning to do the show Off-Broadway after breaking through in “The Walking Dead.” “I was wor­­ried that since his career was taking off, he’d forget about our partnership,” says Pollono. “A lot of people are ‘set friends’ and disappear when the show is over. But J.B. isn’t that guy. He says what he means. And here we are 10 years later and still collaborating.

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