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During the filming of the "Law & Order: SVU" episode "Undercover", Johnny and Mariska Hargitay

stayed in character on and off the set to generate that factor of fear, which earned

Mariska an emmy nomination.

That was Johnny's bulldog in the "Who's Your Daddy" episode of "Killer Instinct"

PS3 Killzone 2  video game  main character is rumored to be based  on Johnny's "Kelly Lake" from TOTS

His Vette was a gift from Bruce Willis

Johnny's drink of choice - Grey Goose

Monica Bellucci watched Johnny get his tattoo of her while filming "Tears of The Sun"

The guy that gave him the tattoo was the same guy who did Bruce Willis's dragon tattoo

over the scar on his shoulder.

Johnny has been deemed a face to watch by Bruce Willis on his website.

In 2005 Johnny was voted Horror Hottie of the Year over at www.campblood.org

Johnny sites his role as Todd In 2002 "The Sweetest Thing" as his big break.

He played the character of Playboy in " Our Time is Up", 2004, a short by Rob Pearlstein.

The short was nominated for an Academy Award

That Running Scared is Johnny's favorite film of his own work.

Johnny plays Two Roles in "Running Scared".

Tommy's Death in "Running Scared" was supposed to be a little more gory.  Wayne Kramer

wanted Tommy's guts to fall out of his stomach but he feared that he would have gotten the

 NC-17 rating.

The word F-word is said 328 times in Running Scared.

"Tears of the Sun" was once titled "Hostile Rescue"

That he is a Great Dancer!

During principal photography period, on "Tears of The Sun", all actors who played Navy S.E.A.L.S characters had

 to refer to each other by their  characters' names, even off camera, so as to improve interaction among the soldiers.

The jungle scene in "Tears of the Sun" where Dr. Lena is saved when Lt Waters cuts the throat of a bad guy...  

originally in the script she was to be saved by Kelly Lake doing the deed not Waters.

All the actors who played Navy S.E.A.Ls had to go through a four week boot camp .

"Killer Instinct" was originally titled "The Gate" and Jack Hale was first  named "Graham"

Johnny was one of the final two (the other actor was Eric Dane)  in the running to play  LINC  on "Prison Break"

before the role finally went to Dominic Purcell.

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MESSNEROLOGY: The study of Johnny Messner

Ryan Reynolds plays FBI Agent MESSNER in the 2007 film "Smokin' Aces