I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.
Jon BernthalI think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.
Jon BernthalI hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.
Jon BernthalI played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.
Jon BernthalI went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.
Jon Bernthal