When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.
Joe ManganielloI donโt think thereโs any such thing as male objectificationโฆI think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures for them to behave a certain way and to look a certain way. Someone put it to me once: Women are sex objects and men are success objects. That was really interesting to me.
Joe ManganielloI'm an average guy. I wasn't the dude who was gonna sit at the stage and dump all my paycheck into the girl.
Joe ManganielloI play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.
Joe ManganielloI 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.
Joe Manganiello