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 train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
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 don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification
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 had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.
I did [Henrik] Ibsen and [Anton] Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn't get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, "You ride the horse the direction it's going."
I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.
What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.
Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.
[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.