The Punisher:
Thomas Jane ("Deep Blue Sea," "Dreamcatcher") steps into the steel-tipped boots of Marvel Comics hero Frank Castle, a.k.a. The Punisher, a crusading vigilante out to topple the crime czar (John Travolta) who murdered his family. Rebecca Romijn, Ben Foster, Samantha Mathis, Roy Scheider and Will Patton costar in this crackling adaptation from writer/director Jonathan Hensleigh ("Jumanji," "Armageddon").

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Did they say you had to work out in order to do the shirtless scenes?
They didn’t put it quite like that. I had a little punch card at the gym and they said, “If you want your paycheck, you have to make sure that this thing is filled out and you’ve been to the gym X amount of times.” I knew going in that it was a very physical part. The key to the character for me was through the physicality of the part. I took that very, very seriously. I went to the gym twice a day, sort of a controversial method among bodybuilders as to whether or not that works, but it worked for me. And hit one body part twice a day and then the special diet. joblo.com interview excerpt