In New York to promote the release of his newest film, A Man Apart, he wanted to talk about the movie. But I also managed to get him to open up about love and relationships. Unfortunately, my name didn't come up.

In A Man Apart, Diesel plays Sean Vetter, a DEA agent who, along with his partner, played by Larenz Tate (Biker Boyz, Love Lones), wages a war against a drug cartel leader in Mexico. Not surprisingly, there's action, violence, explosions, guns and fighting. Vetter is married to his grade school sweetheart, but unfortunately he does not take his shirt off the entire movie. What's with that?

Diesel was first drawn to the script, he said, because of the love story.

"This was an opportunity to play a character who so unabashedly loves his wife. You don't see it a whole lot, especially in tough guys," the hunky actor said in between sips of bottled water. "This guy loves his wife so much that his friends make fun of him. That's what I loved about playing this character. It's what drew me to the role."