Jon Bernthal Spotted at Lunch with a Friend, Plus Find Out Why He Recently Lost 30 Pounds

We have some new candid photos of Jon Bernthal!

The 45-year-old actor was seen having lunch with a friend on Monday afternoon (January 3) in Calabasas, Calif.

In a recent interview, Jon opened up about his role in the movie King Richard and how he lost 30 pounds for the project.

Click inside to find out what he had to say…

“I did not know much about tennis when this thing started. But I am a firm believer that if you’re going to do a sports movie, you’ve got to get the sport right. I find it enormously disrespectful when films don’t do that. I was enormously grateful to the producers to give me the infrastructure to really learn the game of tennis,” Jon told THR.

He continued, “I trained at an academy out here in Ojai for three hours a day. I lost 30 pounds. I would learn the game of tennis, but then I also got to learn how to coach. I worked with a top 50 junior nationals player named Kamea Medora, who was awesome, and I trained her in character. To be able to do those drills and be able to coach in character, I felt that then stepping in, I was in a great place.”

Click through the gallery for 30+ photos of Jon Bernthal at lunch with a friend…