Jon Bernthal's Daughter Fell Into Coma as He Was Supposed to Film 'First Man'

Jon Bernthal is showing off his muscles on the cover of Men’s Health‘s January/February issue, on newsstands December 28.

Here’s what the 42-year-old actor had to share with the mag…

On dropping out of First Man with Ryan Gosling to be with his daughter, who had slipped into a coma: “People talk about bravery like fake macho bravery, but my wife didn’t flinch. What I saw in my wife was courage and beauty unlike I’d ever seen.” (FYI: Adeline was diagnonsed with “encephalitis—a potentially fatal viral infection that causes swelling of the brain.”)

On breaking his hand during the first week of filming The Punisher season 2: “Was it the smartest thing to keep fighting with a broken hand? Maybe not. Maybe I could have been out for a shorter time. But I look at filming a scene like that the same way I look at a boxing match. I’m not gonna be the one to say I’m gonna walk away.”

On asking Willie Nelson to help him win over his now-wife: “I snuck backstage. I found this beautiful postcard and wrote Willie this long letter and rolled him a beautiful joint and told him the situation with me and my woman. I told him she’s a good-hearted woman in love with a good-timin’ man, and I asked him to play this one song ‘Always on My Mind’ for us, and he did.”

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