This week we’re joined by actor Jon Bernthal! To begin, we discuss his latest performance on HBO’s We Own This City (4:50), policing and gun culture in America (8:06), growing up grappling with toxic masculinity (13:38), his pivot to acting in college (22:22), and the powerful history of theater in Moscow (26:16). 


On the back-half, he reflects on his first year in Los Angeles (31:32), the night that changed his life (35:22), and the magic behind the making of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (42:53). To close, Jon shares his hopes for the future (48:48) and how, as a father, he’s processed these tragic weeks in America (50:46).

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