Joe Manganiello On His Sexy GQ Photoshoot With Half-Naked Models

"True Blood's" Joe Manganiello chats with GQ about how he went from delivering packages to starring as a ripped werewolf
There's no denying it: Joe Manganiello looks good without a shirt. This fact has not gone unnoticed by HBO, for whom he frequently flexes as an oft-nude werewolf on "True Blood." Ask him about his physique, though, and he'll insist he's just following the script: "If Alcide was described as weighing 300 pounds with a comb-over and missing his front teeth, that's what I would look like." Luckily for Manganiello's career, he's not playing a guy with a gap-toothed smile. It's his He-Man physique that helped turn a six-episode stint into a regular gig, raising his profile high enough to audition for Zack Snyder's Superman reboot. "He and his wife are huge fans of 'True Blood,'" Manganiello explains. While Snyder ultimately went another way, Manganiello, 34, isn't complaining. A few short years ago, he was paying his bills working as a roadie and as a delivery man for a masonry company. As for the new season of "True Blood," spoilers are as hard to come by as clothing on-set. So, any inhibitions left at all? "Once they yell action," he says, "you're a werewolf and you're not thinking about it. But before, there's a boom guy crouched behind you at ass level." Who says werewolves don't blush?

"True Blood's" Joe Manganiello is showing off his fashionable side in a sexy spread for GQ magazine's July issue.

"We shot that in Santorini, Greece last September," Joe told Access Hollywood at the "True Blood" Season 4 premiere in Los Angeleson Tuesday night of the pictorial. "The pictures just came out... They came out amazing."

In the series of photos  Joe posed with a host of sexy models. When asked if his fiancée, actress Audra Marie was jealous at all about her hunk posing with the beauties, the actor told Access , "a little bit."

And Joe has another lady he'll be spending time with this season on "True Blood" - Anna Paquin.

Joe is one of the three men - alongside Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard - looking lustily at Anna as Sookie Stackhouse in the show's promotional posters.

"A love square perhaps," Joe responded when Access asked if it was a love quadrangle. "Yeah, we're all vying for her attentions."

While there's been talk of Sookie-Eric action already, Joe said his character, Alcide, is ready to get in there.

"There was some tension last year. Alcide was in a really difficult place and so was Sookie and I think if he would've gone there, he would've been taking advantage of her in that moment. This year, you'll definitely see him going after her."


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