{"id":247484,"date":"2026-06-21T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/jon-bernthal-praises-the-odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-says-the-way-he-works-is-almost-inhuman\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T02:00:21","slug":"jon-bernthal-praises-the-odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-says-the-way-he-works-is-almost-inhuman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/jon-bernthal-praises-the-odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-says-the-way-he-works-is-almost-inhuman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bernthal Praises &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; Director Christopher Nolan, Says the Way He Works Is &#8216;Almost Inhuman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2233029\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jon-bernthal\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Jon Bernthal<\/strong><\/a> is gushing over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/christopher-nolan\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Christopher Nolan<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old actor worked with the acclaimed filmmaker on the upcoming movie <em>The Odyssey<\/em>, where he plays Menelaus, the king of Sparta.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, <strong>Jon <\/strong>praised <strong>Christopher<\/strong>, and even dished about an outing with his co-stars from the film. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Nolan<\/strong> is a guy who was literally put on earth to do the very thing that he\u2019s doing,\u201d he told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/a71271445\/jon-bernthal-the-punisher-the-bear-odyssey\/?taid=6a37298c0a5bfc0001a3d5e3&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/a71271445\/jon-bernthal-the-punisher-the-bear-odyssey\/?taid=6a37298c0a5bfc0001a3d5e3&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esquire<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThere\u2019s no one working as hard as him. It is almost inhuman, his appetite and hunger to work and to drive forward. He is the quintessential perfect leader. You would follow him anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon<\/strong> also recalled taking his castmates out for dinner after wrapping his scenes for the movie. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI told them, \u2018Whatever you think in the day-to-day, just know you are going to look back on this and it will be the defining moments of your life. These relationships, these friendships, what you guys have built together, not because you\u2019re part of this unbelievable movie, not because it\u2019s got to be the biggest movie in the world, but because of the blood, sweat, and tears that you guys laid out with each other, for each other, every single day.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the star-studded cast includes <strong>Matt Damon<\/strong>, <strong>Anne Hathaway<\/strong>, <strong>Charlize Theron<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Pattinson<\/strong>, <strong>Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/strong>, and <strong>Tom Holland<\/strong> and <strong>Zendaya<\/strong>, who <strong>Jon<\/strong> also stars with in <em>Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love him; I love his other half,\u201d <strong>Jon<\/strong> told <em>Esquire<\/em> about the married couple. \u201cI love them as a couple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, you can catch <strong>Jon<\/strong>, <strong>Tom<\/strong> and <strong>Zendaya<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/17\/new-spider-man-brand-new-day-trailer-debuts-peter-parker-enlists-help-from-hulk-punisher-watch-now\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/17\/new-spider-man-brand-new-day-trailer-debuts-peter-parker-enlists-help-from-hulk-punisher-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the new <em>Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em> trailer<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Be sure to also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/05\/new-trailer-for-the-odyssey-teases-menacing-robert-pattinson-cyclops-more-watch-now\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/05\/new-trailer-for-the-odyssey-teases-menacing-robert-pattinson-cyclops-more-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out the latest <em>The Odyssey<\/em> trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/christopher-nolan\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Nolan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jon-bernthal\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Bernthal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/the-odyssey\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Odyssey<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/20\/jon-bernthal-praises-the-odyssey-director-christopher-nolan-says-the-way-he-works-is-almost-inhuman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Jon Bernthal is gushing over Christopher Nolan! The 49-year-old actor worked with the acclaimed filmmaker on the upcoming movie The Odyssey, where he plays Menelaus, the king of Sparta. In a recent interview, Jon praised Christopher, and even dished about an outing with his co-stars from the film. \u201cNolan is a guy who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}