Less than a month after wrapping [Made of Honor], [Michelle Monaghan] shot Trucker, every bit as gritty as the previous comedy was airy. In the small drama, she’s Diane, a hard-living long-haul truck driver who is saddled with raising her defiant preteen son after his father gets sick. The film premiered at Tribeca and is seeking distribution.

“I wanted people to understand her,” she says of her character. “She doesn’t make apologies for herself. She doesn’t play the victim, and she’s not cut out to be a mom.”

To play Diane, Monaghan went to driver’s ed. “I got the (trucking) license. If I wasn’t able to get my license, I wasn’t going to do the movie because for me, it was such an essential part of the movie. I didn’t want to fake it.”

That same work ethic applied to the taut arms she sports in the film. “It really takes a lot of muscle, actually, so I worked out for a couple of weeks, doing weights for arms. I have a lean frame, and it needed to look believable that I was driving a truck.”

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