Joe Manganiello
Joe Manganiello
Joseph Michael "Joe" Manganiellois an American actor, director, producer, and author. He played Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and had various recurring roles in television on ER, How I Met Your Mother, and One Tree Hill, before landing his breakout role as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO television series True Blood. In 2011, he was voted "Favorite Pop-Culture Werewolf of All Time" by the readers of Entertainment Weekly, and one of Men's Health's "100 Fittest Men of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth28 December 1976
CountryUnited States of America
I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.
I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.
I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
Sex accounts for about 40 percent of your relationship, but if it's bad, then it's 60.
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
Acting was my first love.
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.
When I'd be out-and-about at a club and the music would come on, I was never the guy that was gonna dance. But after Magic Mike - I have like two or three go-to moves. That's what Magic Mike gave me.
I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.
I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.
When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.