Jon Bernthal’s Punisher is one of the most beloved characters in Marvel’s Daredevil saga, but he wasn’t always set up to return in Daredevil: Born Again. Back when Marvel was still working out the kinks in the Disney+ revival, Bernthal rejected the studio’s offer to reprise his role as Frank Castle, because Born Again didn’t have the kind of story he was looking for.
“Ultimately, I didn’t see it,” Bernthal recently told Entertainment Weekly. The actor was searching for “the version of Frank” that would have built on his history in Netflix’s Punisher; apparently, there wasn’t much for him to dig into. “What they wanted from Frank [didn’t] really make sense to me... So we had to walk away.”
