'I'm Not That Guy' — Thomas Jane Says He Was Miscast as The Punisher Before Jon Bernthal Took Over

Remember the 2004 The Punisher film? Yeah, these days, that mentation of the fashionable quality has mostly been relegated to the sidelines since Jon Bernthal took implicit successful 2016. But it turns retired the histrion who played Frank Castle successful the film, Thomas Jane, doesn’t adjacent deliberation helium should’ve played the quality successful the archetypal place.

"I was miscast arsenic Frank Castle," helium precocious told ComicBookMovie.com. "Frank Castle is an Italian, he's got achromatic hair, he's got a full antithetic benignant of lineage that was calved retired of [being] the antithesis of the mob successful the '70s. I'm not that guy. I had to dye my hairsbreadth black. I had to go a antithetic guy. I'm blessed the portion is played by idiosyncratic who is much close for that role. I had fun, I did the champion I could with it, and I'm precise grateful for it, but I'm not that guy."

Jane’s clip arsenic the Punisher saw him going up against Howard Saint, played by John Travolta. Their movie garnered a achy 30% connected Rotten Tomatoes and lone grossed astir $54 cardinal connected a $33 cardinal budget. IGN's The Punisher reappraisal returned a 3/10.

The histrion did not reprise his relation for the 2008 sequel Punisher: War Zone — duties were passed to Ray Stevenson — but helium did instrumentality arsenic Punisher for the 2005 PS2 crippled The Punisher.

Jon Bernthal took implicit the quality successful 2016 erstwhile helium appeared successful the 2nd play of Netflix’s short-lived bid Daredevil, Bernthal aboriginal went connected to play Frank Castle successful a spinoff bid titled simply The Punisher from 2017 to 2019. He besides reprised the relation successful the 2025 Disney+ bid Daredevil: Born Again.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.