True Blood’s Joe Manganiello is coming on the show this season to play a new neighbor for the Burkes, and Bomer teases: “We have this really cool Rear Window-esque episode where Elizabeth is suspicious of some new neighbors after something goes down. He plays an ominous, suspicious neighbor.”

Manganiello and Bomer also co-star in the much-talked-about skinfest movie Magic Mike, and Bomer says he has hit the gym with Manganiello on at least one occasion.

“I have actually worked out with Joe,” Bomer tells me. “I’ve known Joe for 15 years and we’ve seen each other in so many embarrassing circumstances, that for me, to have one more by trying to work out with him was no big deal!”

Anyone wish to have been a fly on that gym wall? Yeah, didn’t think so. [xx]

The presence of monsters echoes throughout history; historians and anthropologists alike have diagnosed the mythical beasts as a vector of our most bridling fears. They are manufactured in our subconscious and assembled solely for the purpose of defeat, and yet, no matter their atrocity, monsters are secretly championed all the way to their demise. These villains are among us with increasing abundance, so if in fact enlisted for our own catharsis, the indication of their prevalence paints a less than reassuring picture of the current cultural times.

At mention of the social climate that invites an insurgence of supernatural media stars, Joe Manganiello sits discernibly taller in his seat. As a resident werewolf on the popular vampire series, True Blood, his credentials for our discussion to follow are promising, and within just moments of conversing, every bit deserving of the hype. Immediately, he confides how pleasant it is to discuss something other than his ab routine. “It’s really nice when you get to sit down and talk about what goes into the show and books about culture,” he says, “or why [True Blood] is popular and how it fits into the grand scheme of things.”

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I have added some new photoshoots and magazine scans of Joe to the gallery. He looks amazing in all of them so be sure to check them out.

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Ben: Any True Blood scoop?
Watch out, Alcide (Joe Manganiello)! Debbie Pelt’s (Brit Morgan) mom and dad are coming for answers about the whereabouts of their daughter, and they don’t appreciate anyone speaking ill of their baby girl. [xx]

True Blood’s resident lycanthrope JOE MANGANIELLO lands in Hong Kong to promote the latest season of the hit HBO show, as CHRISTINA KO tries not to swoon

I CAN’T BE sure whether or not I’m projecting when I meet Joe Manganiello at Mandarin Oriental’s M Bar and he seems to be gregarious and eloquent and well-prepared and courteous and really, really (for lack of a better adjective) hot. My tendency to devour True Blood episodes the way a fat kid eats cake – urgently, unceremoniously, fanatically – may just cloud my judgement a pinch.

But if my opinions have been compromised, then so too have those of millions of TV viewers across the world – True Blood ranks as
HBO’s most-watched show since the heyday of The Sopranos – and the hype just keeps growing. The show hits the sweet spot, not so much capturing the zeitgeist as creating it with a pitch-perfect blend of nail-biting plot, modern satire, B-movie gore, graphic sex and Southern charm, with a cast of diverse and surprisingly human superhuman characters including, in no particular order, telepaths, vampires, werewolves, maenads and witches.

Manganiello is best known for his role as the werewolf du jour, the hunky, feral good guy Alcide Herveaux, introduced to the cast in season three as a travel companion-cum-bodyguard to Anna Paquin’s lead character, Sookie Stackhouse.

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