Punisher star Jon Bernthal says he encouraged Tom Holland to include a stunt in his Spider-Man audition tape: "I don't think any of these other fools are able to do that"

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Jon Bernthal says he helped Tom Holland with his Marvel audition tape when they worked on another movie together – and jokingly credits himself with getting him the role of Spider-Man thanks to a note he gave him.

"We did [Pilgrimage] about seven or eight years ago," Bernthal said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. "That was where both Tom did his audition for Spider-Man and I did my audition for Punisher. We actually made each other’s audition tapes on that film."

"I gave him the note, 'Tom, maybe you should run up that wall and do a double backflip and then start the scene,'" Bernthal continued. "And he was like, 'Yeah, you think I should do that? That’s not too much?' I was like, 'I don’t think any of these other fools are able to do that,' and he in fact did that. It’s not that I take responsibility for him, but you know, like a little something."

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