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But I worked so, so hard, and I’m really proud of this movie,” she wrote in the caption. “In all honestly, I'm terrified to show this to anyone. In fact, Garner commented on how hard she worked to get in shape for the role in an Instagram post on May 31. You feel her pain every time she takes a punch. Obviously, she’s good at fights from Alias and Daredevil and Elektra and The Kingdom. There are some good hits, and you see her face hit the ground. “Jennifer worked her booty off,” Shauna Duggins told Variety.

But Garner’s stunt double told Variety that the actress hasn’t lost a step when it comes to giving it her physical all. But her last action role was in the 2007 Middle East drama The Kingdom and since then she’s had a long list of roles as moms, wives, and girlfriends. Garner first hit the scene as an action star with her run on the show Alias from 2001 to 2006, according to IMDb. She returns to enact her revenge on everyone who mocked her pain by protecting the killers and, in doing so, becomes a local folk-hero.

North disappears for years, during which time she whips herself into comic-hero shape, training in all manners of killing, according to Entertainment Tonight. Although the cops seem to catch the killers, the trailer shows that a corrupt justice system lets them get off scot-free.

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While the movie is about a mother’s love, it is much more John Wick than Steel Magnolias. It’s an interesting and complicated subject to explore within the fictional narrative of an action film.” In a statement obtained by Closer Weekly, Garner said: “At our very first meeting the director and I discussed whether or not revenge is ever appropriate and questioned if what Riley is doing is OK. And, according to the actress herself, it is entirely fictional. The story of Peppermint revolves around Riley North, a grieving mom who loses her daughter and husband in a gang-related shooting and goes on a campaign of targeted revenge, as People explained. Garner is so well-known for playing accessible, relatable characters, it begs the question, is Peppermint based on a true story? In her new movie Peppermint, Garner plays the same tough, take-no-prisoners action heroine you first met in Alias, only this time there’s a much darker motivation. Jennifer Garner is coming back to screens in the kind of action role you haven’t seen her in for a long time.