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True Blood’s Joe Manganiello and Marshall Allman attend the WWE SummerSlam Kickoff Party held at the Tropicana Bar at The Hollywood Rooselvelt Hotel on August 13, 2010 in Hollywood, California.

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In the August 23rd edition of People Magazine, Joe Manganiello is featured where he speaks about his “rabid female fans” among other things.

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True Blood’s Joe Manganiello arrives at the 9th Annual InStyle Summer Soiree on August 12, 2010 in Los Angeles, California.

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We’ve heard rumors for a while now about Joe Manganiello being considered to play the part of the new Superman. Since he has considerably pumped himself up and with the notoriety he has received after being cast as Alcide, it seems that he is now officially in the running.

In December 2012, a new Superman will soar on to the big screen, with Christopher Nolan producing and his brother Jonathan Nolan teaming up with David Goyer to write the screenplay.

At one point Chris Columbus ((Home Alone, Harry Potter 1 & 2, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief) was reportedly offered the chance to direct but that turned out to be untrue and it seems Jonathan Nolan is in line to helm the feature in what would be his directing debut.

All good so far, but the one major missing ingredient is who will be playing the new Clark Kent/Superman.

That hasn’t stopped the speculation, though. Here we take a look at the candidates and give you the chance to vote on your favourite.

Chuck star Zachary Levi was said to have auditioned for the role, but he later dismissed the reports, telling IGN: “It’s complete fiction. I start getting these text messages from my friends, saying ‘What is going on? You didn’t tell us any of this!’ And I’m asking, ‘What are you talking about?’”

Although most fans online didn’t seem too keen on the 29-year-old as Superman, he says he is definitely interested: “I go and read all these comments and even comments on IMDB. The vast majority are like ‘He couldn’t be Superman!’ And I’m like ‘All right! I get it!’. I guess one of the things that I fear is that people pigeonhole me in the nerd role, because a lot them say ‘I can see him as Clark Kent, but not as Supes’. I’m an actor! Just give me six months and a gym. Give me something.”

Meanwhile, Friday Night Lights star Scott Porter, 31, and True Blood actor Joe Manganiello, 33, have also been campaigning for the role.

Manganiello  has gone on record saying he’d love to put on the cape and tights. He said: “I’m from Pittsburgh so the Man of Steel – it’s the City of Steel, so that would go a long way back home.” Fans have started a Facebook page to try to land him the part.

Another name was thrown into the mix when Think McFly Think reported that Mad Men star Jon Hamm was among those being considered by Warner Bros. The only possible drawback is that he’s 39 – and he’d be older when the new Superman film is filmed and released – but, on the other hand, age hasn’t stopped 45-year-old Robert Downey Jr playing Iron Man.

Meanwhile, Brandon Routh, who starred in Bryan Singer’s 2006 release Superman Returns, has made no secret of the fact he’s keen to reprise the role. He told Cinema Blend: “I certainly would [love to play Superman again]. As much as I say I’m working to shake that off or shake it up, I certainly don’t want to extinguish or get rid of it because it was a great honour and I would love to be able to return as that character.

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In the interview below, we find out how the former star athlete, True Blood’s Joe Manganiello built his monster physique and fulfilled a childhood dream.

Before the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama acting gods and Hollywood producer-writer-director Alan Ball came calling, Joe Manganiello aspired to be a naturally lean and ripped athlete. Little did the 6’5” varsity basketball, football and volleyball letterman know as a steroid-snubbing teen that his acting dream job would be the motivation for him to develop the cut, carnivorous body he always wanted.

As the HBO vampire-centric hit’s resident werewolf Alcide Herveaux — the benevolent half-man, half-monster assigned to protect star Anna Paquin’s Sookie Stackhouse — Manganiello channels his athletic past to unleash his inner animal. He achieves this through a beast of a cardio- and protein-intensive regimen he calls the “Werewolf Workout.” The six-day-a-week, twice-a-day fitness routine is the brainchild of celebrity trainer Ron Matthews, who sculpted Hugh Jackman’s physique for the “X-Men” star’s role as Wolverine.

For Manganiello, who credits his family’s Pittsburgh blue-collar background for his work ethic, it’s all part of the job. And as HBO’s new beefcake werewolf, the actor exercises another tried-and-“True Blood” maxim: You are what — or as remains to be seen with Alcide — whom you eat.

Muscle & Body: You’ve said you prayed as a kid to become a werewolf. Is Michael J. Fox to blame?
Joe Manganiello: [Laughs] Partially. I was a huge fan of “Teen Wolf.” But I was really more of a fan as a little kid of the black-and-white monster movies — the Bella Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. stuff. Halloween was always my favorite holiday. I had monster figures. I drew monsters all the time. I read all of the Stephen King books to the point that my father started taking the books from me. I attended a Catholic elementary school. I went to church every morning at 6 a.m. praying that God would turn me into a werewolf. I’d heard as a little kid that if you pray hard enough and your faith is pure, God will answer you. But after a few weeks of praying with all of my heart, it wasn’t happening. So I started thinking there wasn’t a God, it’s all a big gyp.

M&B: So now your faith has been restored?
JM: Yeah. I jokingly tell Alan Ball, “You’ve brought me back to Jesus.”

M&B: You’ve said that the role helps you unleash the beast within.
JM: That’s what is so interesting to me about werewolves in the pantheon of monsters. Growing up as a naturally big kid, you’re taught to be responsible, not lash out, not use your size. I think there’s a definite parallel between that and Alcide. Being a werewolf, there’s a real sense of catharsis letting that beast out.

To read the rest of this interview, go to Muscle and Body Magazine

True Blood’s Alcide, Joe Manganiello has been in New York doing interviews, among other things. Since Joe has been made a regular cast member on True Blood he sure is getting the attention from the fans and from the press, and we’re happy for it because it helps us to get to know him a bit more. Interviewnagazine.com’s Bree McKenney spent some time with him recently, and here’s part of her interview:

The type of stranger approaching Joe Manganiello on the street has changed recently, from devotees of the CW’s One Tree Hill (an apparently fanatical and legion population), on which he played bartender Owen for two seasons, to rabid True Blood fans eager to get close to Manganiello’s latest character, the werewolf Alcide Herveaux

During a visit to New York, Manganiello found time to talk to us about the thrill of being cast on his favorite show, and his tips for playing a werewolf, which include ab work and connecting with your inner child.

MCKENNEY: Tell us a little about your audition process for True Blood.

MANGANIELLO: My first audition was for a different werewolf role–it was me, ten inches away from the casting director, growling in her face. It felt great. They called me back in and said they wanted me to read again, but this time for the part of Alcide. Since I was a fan of the series and had already read all the books, I knew this was a bigger role, and was totally overwhelmed when I got it.

MCKENNEY: Werewolf and vampire roles have gotten so ubiquitous that I’ve heard there are classes in L.A. that specialize only in this type of acting. How would you teach Werewolf Acting 101?

MANGANIELLO: I mean, I feel like I’ve been pretending I was a werewolf since I was a little kid. But it takes work. It’s about dialect work… I’m not going to lie–it’s about going to the gym. It’s a lot about letting it all go, remembering when you were a crazy primal kid running around and screaming. I wouldn’t tell anyone to study werewolves–I studied wolves, how they moved, their tendencies and sensibilities.

MCKENNEY: Originally, you were only meant to be in six episodes, but Alan Ball expanded your role for the fourth season.

To read the rest of this article, go to Interviewmagazine.com

In this video below we see another part of Joe Manganiello’s interview with AP that also includes some scenes from True Blood with Anna Paquin.  He also discusses working with real wolves and who should end up with Sookie.

Joe Manganiello made an appearance on the Wendy Williams Show on
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True Blood’s Joe Manganiello has bonded with the wolf that plays the canine side of his character — so much so that he recently began taking his co-star on walks.

A North American Timber Wolf named Thunder is the canine counterpart to Joe’s character, Alcide.

Manganiello says Thunder is on a giant chain while they walk to ensure that the animal doesn’t get spooked and run away.

Unlike his character, Manganiello admits to getting hit with “an amount of fear” when working with the undomesticated animals. Handlers have advised him not to have meat around Thunder or make any sudden movements.

He says the wolves are “suprisingly gigantic” with “wild-looking, piercing yellow eyes.”

source: Associated Press

Today, Joe Manganiello was interviewed by AP Live. In this interview he talks about being back in New York and about his now permanent cast member role of the werewolf, Alcide in True Blood.  Below is a video of this interview: