As a departure from her days wearing blue makeup and practically no clothes in "The X-Men" movies, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos plays a "mousy" next-door neighbor in April's release of "The Punisher."

"Joan's this down and out recovering drug addict just trying to get her life back together," Romjin-Stamos said. "She lives in this shabby tenement building that Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) moves into as he is just getting over the death of his family, and turning into the Punisher. He's this mysterious guy doing all this stuff in his apartment, and none of us who live in the building can figure out who he is or what it is that he's doing. And I think my character related to him. I identify with him as somebody who just doesn't care about life anymore because he's lost his family and he's drinking heavily."

Romjin-Stamos also talked about how close the movie is staying with the comic book series, by talking about how Spacker Dave and Mr. Bumpo work into the movie.

"Spacker Dave and Bumpo become her family, and they are incredibly attached to each other and they are sort of ... they are all they have for each other," she said. "And they sort of become the surrogate family for Frank. And they become, I hope if we pull it off, the reason that he does make it.

"He sort of gets a glimpse that there is something out there to live for, that there are still good people in the world."

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