Jon Bernthal Says He ‘Made’ Tom Holland’s Audition Tape for ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ Takes ‘a Little’ Credit For Him Becoming Spider-Man

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jon-bernthal-tom-holland-audition-tape-spider-man-marvel-1236373273/

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  1. > “We did [‘Pilgrimage’] about seven or eight years ago,” Bernthal said. “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.”

    > Bernthal explained that Holland “really believed” that he would land that part despite heavy competition, often repeating “‘I am Spider-Man’” while working on his audition.

    > “I was like ‘There’s probably a lot of people that want to be Spider-Man,’” Bernthal said. “‘I mean, you’re super talented and all, but the odds are kind of against you, but yeah, let’s make the tape.’ He just had this belief, and when you get to know him and see how he shows up, there is a reason why he is the movie star that he is.”

  3. I woukd so love an interaction between their characters, especially one where Spidey gets in over his head and Frank saves him, a la Civil War

  5. Jon is so damn fine I would literally jump over Tom to get to him

  6. They made each others audition tapes on the set of that movie.

  7. Legitimately horrible title. Took forever to figure out what it was saying

  8. God damn Tom I didn’t know you would be the best Spider-Man ever. Your gonna be batteling villains for a long effe’ing time big boy.

  9. Jon Bernthal is so good. They should let him just play a normal 9-5 dad in a movie sometime

  10. Jon Bernthal is like your girls ex bf who don’t know how to take a hint

  11. Chris Hemsworth was actually the one who got Holland the audition. They were on a film together previously and Hemsworth recommended him.

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