Jon Bernthal Didn’t Like Direction ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Was Heading With Punisher Before Dario Scardapane’s Retooling & Collaboration: “We Had To Walk Away”

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Marvel‘s critical darling “Daredevil: Born Again” not only brings back Charlie Cox‘s Matt Murdock and Vincent D’Onofrio‘s Wilson Fisk, but the new revival series from Marvel Television also has the grand return of Jon Bernthal (“The Accountant 2”) as The Punisher, however, as the actor tells it that nearly didn’t happen for creative reasons.

In a new chat with Entertainment Weekly, the actor revealed he nearly wasn’t a part of the show due to the creative choices being made in the previous incarnation and it wasn’t until Marvel Television decided to retool things that he decided to come back to “Daredevil: Born Again.” READ MORE: Jon Bernthal Promises “Dark” Tone For Gestating ‘Punisher Special Presentation’: “It Will Not Be Punisher-Lite” “Ultimately, I didn’t see it.