Making Magic: Joe Manganiello Dishes on His Magic Mike Bromances, Falling In ... - Haute Living
When you look at the muscular, chiseled Joe Manganiello, a man who has easily played both a blue collar construction worker-turned-werewolf on HBO’s True Blood and a male stripper in the upcoming Magic Mike XXL , you might be surprised to learn... At an acting class he once attended, he was made to sit in the middle of the room while his peers yelled out their first impressions of him. ’ and ‘Has a vintage car he works on his yard. The truth is much, much different. “I don’t have a motorcycle, I don’t drink, I didn’t go to my prom: I went to go see Blade Runner instead. I said ‘To hell with it’. I thought it was stupid and didn’t go. I don’t work on a vintage car. The moral of the story is that you don’t have to be any of that, but if you want to work in this business, you need to learn how to play it. ”. He was so good at pretending that his True Blood co-star Anna Paquin asked him if he had grown up on a... “I play male strippers. I play construction worker were- wolves, but that’s not who I am,” he says, adding, “I’m flattered when people think of me as a meathead. I loved Robert De Niro growing up and [his characters] Jake LaMotta and Travis Bickle [of Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, respectively] are not wickedly intelligent characters, but I’ll tell you what: De Niro is. Source: hauteliving.com
