"When you look at the entertainment industry, it’s amazing how doors are slammed in your face. I remember casting directors looking at my big nose and my giant ears and just being like, “What are you doing here?” Feeling like you don’t belong, agents never returning your phone calls. You get so much rejection and people make you feel so small, and the second that things start to change for you, those same people all want something. But you’ve got to remind yourself how lucky you are to be doing this, even when it’s not working out. Look, when I was starting out and I was going through really hard times, my wife was an I.C.U. trauma nurse, so there’d be plenty of times I would get home and I would have tears in my eyes of frustration and then my wife would talk about her day. The things she was encountering — holding somebody’s hand as they were passing, or letting somebody know that they weren’t going to ever see a family member again — just put it all in such clear perspective for me."
Our pal Kyle Buchanan chatted with none other than Jon "Jonny" Bernthal in The New York Times today and in a fine chat that passage above stood out, because imagine seeing Jon Bernthal's big nose and giant ears and thinking of them as a negative? My god some people in the entertainment industry do not deserve their jobs. Let me do all the casting from now on, I got this. Anyway click on over and read the whole thing, it's worth your time -- I also like the part where Bernthal talks about his friend James Badge Dale, because who doesn't want to think about Jon Bernthal and James Badge Dale hanging out, wearing sweatpants, punching each other, so forth... sorry what was I talking about? Oh right. There are more pictures from this NYT shoot too, and I have them after the jump...