I think when portraying someone that does exist in real life, there's an amount of respect and you want to do them justice. I don't really care what anybody says out there about what I did in the film; I care what these guys thought about what I did. If I'm making them happy, then I know I'm on the right track.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.

Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

When I'm training for 'True Blood,' I don't eat any sugar except for some fruit here and there. So it's no sugar, no bread, no real carbs all day.

I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.

I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.