Joe Manganiello Net Worth

Joe Manganiello's Quotes

• [2012, on being in shape for Magic Mike (2012)] When you're shirtless one or two days a week - which is how it works with True Blood (2008) - you can ramp up and ramp down the intensity of training. When you're shirtless every day, there's no let up. So we spent a fortnight doing thousands of push-ups, thousands of curls, thousands of lat raises. We basically spent every day working out for two weeks in a row. After that, I needed a pretty hardcore vacation. But it was worth it. It was the most fun I've ever had in my life. One hundred percent.
• [2012] I screen-tested, alongside James Franco, for my part in Spider-Man (2002) the week after I graduated from CMU (Carnegie Mellon) and got the part. However, it didn't start shooting for six months, so I paid the bills as a bodyguard for singer/actor Tyrese Gibson and as a bouncer at a Mexican rock bar and an after-hours club.
• (2012) I grew up a misfit. I never fit in. I had all of these parts that were in direct conflict with each other. I was an athlete, but I was extremely artistic. I was a big strong kid who was also very sensitive and empathetic. I was a jock who was good at math and chess and loved to read. I didn't know what group to hang out with in school until I started acting. When I did, I realized everyone was as weird and out of place as I was, and that I could combine all of those weird opposing characteristics together and create characters that made sense to me in my weird way. Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.
• (2012, on being a sex symbol) It's flattering, but it's not really something I need to be concerned with. I'm glad people feel that way, obviously, but it doesn't change the fact that I have to haul my ass to the gym every day and then get home and study. I put my pants on the same way I did when no one cared. Quitting drinking and smoking have been the two biggest turning points of my entire life.
• [2010, on staying in shape for True Blood (2008)] During the season, I work out twice a day, six days a week. And it's protein from the time you wake up to the time you go to bed. It's just protein and vegetables every day. But I get one cheat meal a week.

Interesting Facts about Joe Manganiello

1. Attended and graduated from Mt. Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1995). He played the role of Jud Fry in the high school production of the musical "Oklahoma!" in his senior year.
2. Received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2000).
3. Wrote, directed and starred in a movie made for extra credit in his Chemistry class in which most of his friends starred.
4. Was a great athlete for the Blue Devils. He played Varsity football until a knee injury sidelined him in tenth grade in a game against Ringgold (Monongahela, Pennsylvania) before recovering and lettering in both basketball and volleyball.
5. Attended Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated the same year as fellow Magic Mike (2012) co-star Matt Bomer.
6. Used to spend his summers on Peaks Island, Maine.
7. Originally cast in the role of the spiritual exorcist, Friar Lazaro Mate, in the film Sublime (2007), but was recast when he had to cut his long hair and shave his beard to reprise his role as Flash Thompson in Spider-Man 3 (2007). He did shoot a day on the film and appears briefly in the hallway scene, performing a breast augmentation.
8. Used to get paid to dress up like Captain Morgan at bars in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
9. Travelled the world as a roadie for the rock band Goldfinger.
10. Has been skydiving with the Army's parachute team the "Golden Knights".
11. Used to shovel sand and gravel off of a truck and do demolitions for a construction company.
12. Sang backup vocals for the rock band, The Used, on their song "Hospital" from their album "Lies for the Liars" (2007), and for the rock band, Goldfinger, on their song "Wasted" for their album "Disconnection Notice" (2005).
13. He trained for five months to play the character Alcide Herveaux on True Blood (2008), since the character is described as "having arms like tree trunks" in Charlaine Harris' novels. Manganiello said that, even considering the grueling training, the most difficult aspect of the role was getting Alcide's Southern accent right.
14. His father's ancestry is Italian (from Naples and Messina, Sicily). Joe's maternal grandfather had Dalmatian/Croatian ancestry, and Joe's maternal grandmother had German and Armenian ancestry.
15. He campaigned for the coveted role of Superman in director Zack Snyder's and producer Christopher Nolan's adaptation Man of Steel (2013). Snyder stated that Manganiello was down to the last two considered for the role and said that Manganiello is "a great guy". British actor Henry Cavill ultimately won the role.
16. He was rumored for months to be the front runner for the title role of Superman in Zach Snyder and Christopher Nolan's reboot. When asked what happened, in an interview with Access Hollywood (1996), Joe cited that scheduling problems with True Blood (2008) forced him out of the running in the final stage, "They wanted me to screen test and they actually asked for my measurements for the suit and everything. Their shoot date switched and it would have taken up 11 weeks out of my True Blood (2008) schedule. At the end of the day, we couldn't get the schedule to work so that I could go off and screen test. So, regrettably, I never got to screen test, I never got to put the suit on." British actor Henry Cavill was eventually cast in the role.
17. He trained as a boxer and was a former sparring partner of NHL player Brantt Myhres.
18. He trained for several months, with a former Navy SEAL, to prepare for his role as Lt. Sean Macklin in Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2009). Upon finding out that the studio did not provide a Navy SEAL to consult on the film, Joe flew his SEAL trainer to the set in Puerto Rico and put him up in the cast's hotel, out of his own pocket, in hopes of adding authenticity to the production.
19. Has recorded some spoken word for the band "D.R.U.G.S." that appears at the very end of their 2011 self titled debut album.
20. Named one of Paper magazine's Beautiful People of 2011.