The Punisher : the actor Ben Barnes has undergone a preparation extreme for the character (SPOILER)

Cinema 5 December, 2017

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With her physical young first BCBG, you would not have bet a kopeck on Ben Barnes in a bad guy for the Punisher. And yet…

The MCU on the small screen has never looked so dark and violent. After the great success Daredevil, the quality of other productions Netflixienne of the firm did not cease to fall, finally crashing with The Defenders. The Punisher goes back truly level and, despite its few flaws here and there, one could only applaud the performance of Jon Bernthal, by far the best interpretation of the angel of death on the big or small screen (it was well worth a criticism of the series). But that would be a hero without his Nemesis ?

Jon Berntahl IS the Punisher

Embodied by the very good Ben Barnes, the ambiguous William “Bill” Russo spoke at the microphone of Cinemablend on the preparation of its role in the mode Actor’s Studio :

“I started to distance myself from comics to further immerse myself in the videos of the Special Forces. I used to me wandering around in the streets of Brooklyn very late at night, because it is a world that to me is very familiar with. I’m from south London and I live in Los Angeles now, so it’s a place that I really didn’t have the habit of frequenting. Walking alone at one in the morning, after having had a high degree of training where you have your endorphins you are browsing through the body after a session of boxing or fighting with a knife is something special. You feel invincible. I found that it was very useful for the role is to soak up this atmosphere, to feel strong and powerful. “

Ben “Bill Russo” Barnes

He asked for not so much but it is true that the result on the screen is at the height of the quality of the series. The realistic dimension of the show, a thousand miles of the clichés of the superhero to the soul as smooth as the skull of Jean-Pierre Coffe, we had human figures, where each protagonist is trying in his way to survive the post-war period : between therapy, thirst for violence and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Far from any dimension heroic, the series was meant to be the more rooted in the real as possible :

“I felt, even in scenes with the most minimal, that we were doing something really different. Something more down-to-earth. It was more or less described in the script. For example, if a character had the upper hand on another, it was because of his military experience, his past, if he was better armed or prepared. “

Of course, what better way to return to the empathy that is used to draw anti-hero, broken, moving away from manichaeism ambient big productions sanitized.