Zitat des Tages von Joe Manganiello:
I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.
I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.
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 wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves - I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
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.
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
I mean, I feel like I've been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid.
American comedies especially are all about these men being browbeaten by their wives and it's impossible for me to watch.
Acting was my first love.
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 grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.
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.
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 think you can be athletic and intellectual at the same time.
