Thursday, June 3, 2010

'True Blood' Wolf Joe Manganiello Is 'Overwhelmed By Fan Attention'

Of course, Alcide is hardly a new character for fans of the "Sookie Stackhouse" novels from Charlaine Harris

— those readers are already well aware of the werewolf's importance to Bon Temps' residential telepath. But did you know that it's actually the fans themselves that led to Joe's eventual casting as Alcide?

Speaking with Hollywood Crush, Joe recalled that a friend once showed him a website where fans were offering their own casting choices for several yet-to-be-cast "True Blood" characters, including Alcide. To Joe's surprise, his name was at the top of the list.

"As fans were posting pictures of who they'd hope would be cast as Alcide, some of them were posting pictures of me," he told Hollywood Crush exclusively. "That's how I found out about the books. I made sure to order the books, read them, and it looked like Alcide was described as pretty similar to me physically. I made sure I watched every episode, started bugging my agents and managers about it and that's how I wound up getting the part."

read on

1 comments:

CINDY C said...

I THINK HE IS PERFECT FOR THE ROLE. HE SEEMS SO DOWN TO EARTH AND A VERY KIND MAN. I HOPE THINGS DON'T CHANGE HIM THOUGH AS THEY SEEM TO HAVE DONE OTHER PEOPLE IN THIS SERIES. JOE IS VERY SEXY AND TALL!!! LOVE HIM ALREADY.