14 DAY TRIAL // Joe Manganiello has had relative success as a big screen actor after “True Blood,” especially by playing a male exotic dancer in the critically acclaimed “Magic Mike.” Speaking with Elle magazine though, he still laments being written off a pretty boy before he’s even given a proper chance to prove he can do more.
This is not the first time that Manganiello complains of how much he’s wronged by the industry by being considered a one-trick pony, because that doesn’t really allow him to show his full range.
He says he’s being underestimated as an actor because of his looks “all the time” but, strangely, it hasn’t been all bad.
“It makes it easier to know what they’re about. And I can use that [assumption] to surprise the audience,” Manganiello explains.
“These characters I play? The shirtless dude doing pull-ups in a park? It’s a chapter of my career. I did Ibsen and Chekhov for years. Obviously I didn’t get the kind of recognition I have now. Somebody once told me, ‘You ride the horse the direction it’s going’,” the hunky actor explains.
Fans probably remember a (rather infuriating) interview Joe gave in the summer of 2012, in which he lamented not getting the leading part in Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel.”
That alone wouldn’t have been that bad, but Joe also inferred that Henry Cavill, who ended up playing Superman to good reviews, only got the part because he, Joe, was too busy on “True Blood” to accept it.
In light of his most recent comment on how much he’s wronged, Shakespeare’s line “thou doth protest too much” seems to have been written especially for him.
In the same interview, Joe also talks about his plans on a personal level, and explains that he’s envisioning a future with a family and a white picket fence.
“Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability. In the age of camera phones and screenshots and Twitter…. At the end of the day, I want to share my life with somebody, you know? I want picture albums. I want to look back at our time together. And I also want kids. And if you want kids, then you want marriage,” he says.