Jon Bernthal Says He Lost All Respect For Kevin Spacey On The Set Of BABY DRIVER
He is known for playing some of the roughest and toughest characters on the big and small screen including Marvel’s The Punisher. Now actor Jon Bernthal is sharing his experience working with Kevin Spacey during an interview on Sirius XM’s “Jim and Sam Show.” Bernthal called the actor, who is currently under fire for alleged sexual misconduct, a “bully.”
Bernthal, who acted in Baby Driver alongside Spacey, said that the former House of Cards actor had left an incredible impression on Bernthal when he saw Spacey in a West End production of The Iceman Cometh several years ago. But after seeing the way Spacey behaved on the set of Baby Driver, Bernthal’s opinion changed:
“Going onto that set and working with him — I wasn’t there much and I wasn’t really in a situation to judge — but when I was there he really rubbed me the wrong way. I thought he was a bit of a bully… I didn’t really care for the way he was behaving toward some of the other people on set.”
Even though Bernthal said he never saw Spacey do anything close to the acts he’s recently been accused of, he said that the way Spacey talked to some of the crew made him uncomfortable.
“I think he was acting toward people in a way that — where I remember, at the time, thinking, man if that was a woman that he was talking to, I would have done something, I would have said something. And I was really happy to sort of get out of there, for that reason.”
“I just remember losing a ton of respect for him. The kind of man he was when I saw him, working with him, made me lose all respect for him and I was enormously disappointed.”
Several allegations have surfaced against Spacey since actor Anthony Rapp accused him of improper behavior when Rapp was 14 years old. Now Spacey is under investigation in the U.K. after more allegations came out regarding alleged sexual misconduct while he was director of the Old Vic theater. The actor has also been suspended from House of Cards, and Netflix announced the sixth season of the show would be its last. Additionally, Sony recast his role in the J. Paul Getty biopic All the Money in the World, with Christopher Plummer who will re-shoot all of Spacey’s scenes.
Meanwhile, Jon Bernthal can be seen next in the Netflix original series Marvel's The Punisher which will be available to stream when it premiere's on November 17 at 3:00 a.m. EST.
If you want to see Bernthal's entire interview, you can watch it here: