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
Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.
I wake up at the same time every day to get to the gym.
I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.
Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.
I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.
Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.
I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.
Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.
I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.
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 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