today i'm larry king now it's true blood star joe man getting hello what's in store for true blood this year i could tell you a little bit without getting fired on today and shedding his clothes in the head film magic mike is a bit like being a swimmer it's kind of cold you know outside of the pool and you're kind of maybe anxious but once you get into the water you you know what to do and what his job made of all the attention it gets for his looks you know my career started out and in classical theater but over the past four years if you knew nothing about me before that you'd think ok he says that naked guy running around in the woods it's all next on larry king now. bug of the larry king now our guests today is joe maddon danell joe you known for

his role as the often untold well wolf al seed in the h.b.o. supernatural series true blood and as the often unclose stripper big dick richie in the hit film magic mike next joe is taking on the legendary role of stanley kowalski in a streetcar named desire for the a.o. repertory theater this fall on top of which he has a fitness book coming out of the end of the year title joe man yellows man get mellows evolution where were you when he won why are you so busy and when do i sleep i know it's just that you know when it rains it pours i guess is it a little contradictory to be stripped down on a true blood show and then do co all ski. i think stanley takes his shirt off at one point and he does in the play so yeah. i guess you know it's interesting that you know my career started out and in classical theater but over the past four years if you knew nothing about me before that you. i think ok he's just that naked

guy running around in the woods so it's funny to my to my former drama school teachers and my drama classmates that you know there's who led the carnegie mellon school of drama in prison how did you come to true blood. it's a long crazy path. you know at the time i was i was you know making my living as a guest star and recurring actor on a bunch of you know random television shows this kind of this journeyman from project to project and you know i really thought that that my career had plateaued and then it you know i was just going to make my career that way and that was going to yeah and i thought you know that's going to be ok and you know most of my career is instead calm up to that point and then along comes this role they needed this big wolf like you know you know kind of violent sort of dark guy who also was very sensitive and protective and romantic and you know i went in for the role and you know afterwards alan ball so they're just there wasn't anybody else you are that guy so it seems like that part kind of met me as much as i met you

went for it one were you excited and to just include be a hit. i knew the show was a hit it was going into its third season at that point to joining it i was joining a hit and there were a lot of fans that you know the series is based on some novels this line of novels and the fans of those novels were creating blogs online where they were kind of fantasy casting the characters that hadn't shown up on the show yet that occurred in the books and there were fans of these books that started this blog saying that i should play this werewolf when he showed up and so i was brought to my attention and apparently it was brought to castings attention and that's how i got called in for the role was the casting. you know saw these blogs and called me and you think people now see you so much is this role that they don't look the issue is a good child and has the news to talk to a toto a lot about this he said how can i be anything else but six foot five and look like

this. no but i'm a serious actor. you know my job is to you know explore and inhabit different characters so if people only see me as this character i think i think i'm doing my job to an extent there are a lot of my cast mates on the show you don't think it'll affect of the parts of your career i don't think so you know it's the overnight you know the ten year overnight success and i've been doing this this for about twenty years now and you know all of the roles that i played before true but i think about all of those you know i understand on which was nader's writing the forward to your book we became good friends on this movie was shot last year my movie it's called sabotage comes out in january david a are great writer director and of watch last year he also wrote training day which is my favorite genre owner so this is his movie about the d.a. and their fight against mexican cartels in the drug war and great cast sam worthington

terrence howard. livia williams harold perrineau max martini josh holloway great cast and i met arnold on that on that shoot and told him i was writing this for this book and he offered her at the forward and he give you any fitness tips sure. would you be willing to lose weight for a role like you imagine my costar matthew mcdonough he did. well i would lose weight i would and you know in the past for different stage roles i lost weight i i do know that every single actor that's ever lost lots of weight like that says that they've suffered permanent health issues between i was a drop a lot to really mess up your whole again no others didn't erode did share the boxes . is a lot of nudity into blood right yes are you comfortable showing skin and was it hard is first. i think it's it's a bit like it's a bit like being

a swimmer but i think you know it's kind of cold. you know outside of the pool and you're kind of maybe anxious before you you know before a race let's say but once you get into the water you you know what to do i mean once they yell action boom you're in there you're you're being a werewolf you're not thinking about you not being self-conscious is the fan base illuminati i mean i'm in the best respect their little wild right i love our fan base and yes they are wild but i think that's what makes it so much fun and i think that's what's made the show so successful and so you know such a long running successes is there is such a wild fan base and i frown young young and old i mean it's you know spans i know you know grandmothers that watch it with their their daughters or their daughters watch over there as we shoot it. pretty much one hundred percent in los angeles so there's only been a been a crazy thing a fan is done if you all the time you know like like. you

know there was a fan who approached me and said that she had heard that wolf wolf saliva when they lick each others wounds the wounds will heal quicker and then she looked me kind of this dead eyed stare and asked me to licker. and fearing the mike douglas disease. he had to decline. security escorted her away from me quicker than i could give my response what's in store for true blood this year well might hear you tell us i could tell you a little bit without getting fired. my character has killed the master of the pack and now he has accepted the role of pack master of this pack of shreveport werewolves so you're going to watch my character have to alpha the rest of these dogs the multi-talented and very busy joe maddon going elo is our guest

true blood premieres sunday june sixteenth at nine eastern on h.b.o. you get fired for spoiling you can get in trouble for spoiling yeah i you know i spent a lot of time with with live wolves preparing for my role and i went to a ranch where they took care of you know wolves that they used for the movies you were with the law i will now spend a lot of time with them and observe them and talk to the handlers and trainers and things and i had a picture taken of my friend took a picture of me with wealth and he posted it on his facebook page. within twenty minutes we got a call i got a call from h.b.o. on my cell phone my manager got a call this guy was contacted and to take the picture down because it was considered a set photo even though it wasn't on sat it was me up on this ranch with a wall on it is so bugged about that they don't want secrets getting out. so the guest is warned yes that's true blood change your life very much yeah in what way. well there's there are

a lot of directors and producers the in the industry watches true blood so you know there's a lot of fans out there you know i meet with direction producers and things that. that you know have either offered or wanted me for roles be we're familiar with the show i was yeah i watched the first two seasons never missed an episode now you will see or if they are in the book and you read the book i read the books because these fans were blogging online that there was a werewolf showing up so i wanted to become familiar with it in case i got called in for another two hunching are hoping that they would call you for this hoping so when you went in it was not a surprise that you were doing this you were to do was really want to get on this definitely definitely i was i was definitely bugging my agents and my manager about going then they warn you that the show would be led on constans did they leave you know you knew that i knew that there was a shapeshifter on the first two seasons and of course season two there were a bunch of orgies there was this like magical creature that was forcing all of the townspeople to have these huge elaborate orgies so i had

a pretty good idea that being the werewolf meant i'm going to have to get naked i'm sure the future of the show you know. i definitely know what happens in the finale of season six but past that i'm not sure what happens next how do you how do you explain the success of the show. miss someone did knowing about and watching as this is sounds weird it sounds weird that would lie wolves to twenty and make it was sort of what i but i think it there's a lot of metaphor to it. you know there's a lot of you know vampires represent you know oppressed people people without rights so i think there's a there's a social aspect to it but i think further than that i think if you go into you know the writings of joseph campbell and you know when he talked about mythology and you know these the greeks and romans had these very human gods that had sex with each other killed each other they had very you know negative human aspects and through through those human like gods and demi-gods it became easier for us to talk about

the human experience and i think that that's why the show resonates so much as it allows us to kind of talk about who we really are in a deeper way than we can on a on another show do you think joe that all of this vampires all of his religion everything is just based on the fact that we die i think so yeah i think it's all trying to find a way to explain that and it was the purpose of our experience the show's creator alan ball if this season has been without him well you know brian buckner has taken over a show runner he was meant to take over the show in season two allen was only going to be around for one season and leave but the show is such a runaway hit and allen was having so much fun he stuck around so it's you know brian had to wait another five seasons the take over but you know i think for him it's been a long time coming so i think he's had a lot of a lot of ideas and you know excuse the pun but i think it's breed you know some fresh blood to the good line colleen harris who wrote the lead to both of her me

she's written the last one right number thirteen years old will not affect the series in a while i think the show is so far different from the books now i think they both started out very similar but then around sees the end of season one season two they started growing apart and i think by now the show is completely separate so. you know there are there may be ideas that they give zorra so no it's on it's own why do we have sex with them partners you think probably this is the sexiness of it you know it's sexual yeah i think there is there's a sexual aspect to it i think you know there's been essays written that. you know in times of recession these fantasy creatures are become popular enjoy the character sexual. acts that are a yeah to really graphic sex scene last year on the show that my mother had to get up and walk out of the room on so definitely much as a terry not a lot of joe takes on the art of male stripping and what major role was joe considered for that's next stay with us.

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back with joe manganiello to blog his fitness book the end of the year is titled joe man good knows evolution involves the change. yes you know it's all the workouts the got me physically prepared for true blood in magic mike and you know some of these other projects but it also goes back to you know i was a kid in high school that couldn't do one pull up couldn't do one dip so it's not even like i was in the middle i was dead last and it's kind of the motivational things and things i had to to grow over and get over to get to you want to go and i grew up in pittsburgh pennsylvania. pirates steelers still and i mean it's penguins it's all about the steelers and we have a magic mike how did that come about for you magic mike as a surprising hit it was a surprising hit yeah. but it's steven soderbergh so i mean it's not that much of

it is male nudity yes but i think if you look at the time when it came out you know that was the same year that fifty shades of grey was really popular magic mike i think drafted off of the popularity of that book there was such a you know i think women's fantasies were very much in the news and there became this kind of conversation about you know male objectivity but in the sequel possible i think so yeah be in it we had so much fun i had i had the time of my life on the movie i'd love to go back and work with all those guys like you like polo people all those guys it channing in qana hey and you know matt bomer and i went to drama school and soderbergh was amazing so we go because he like soderbergh soderbergh. very smart very funny very witty very quiet he says own camera man so the whole movie's in his head and he doesn't have to translate that to anyone but it's a trick of male scripting. what you learn. while male shipping is very different

than female stripping you know men want to see women take their clothes off and that's it and women want a fantasy they want to know that you've said you've spent a lot of time on your routine that you've spent money on. a costume that you've rehearsed this thing and then they want to go on this this ride with you so i think you know the movie really was an exploration for me at least in theme about you know the differences between men and women and what they find. so a male stripper have to be well and and is that it helps. but did you expect that hit to be the thing to be a hit it did one hundred thirteen million the mystic. we thought we were making this little experimental indie and that's the way it read on the page so when warner brothers bought it and wanted to make it their fourth of july movie we all i mean it was wait all these people are going to see what we're doing here you know

when we really thought it was going to be this this little thing that flew under the radar and turned into this huge cultural phenomena there's only about the coming streetcars yale yale rep that area new haven and new haven you know going to go i think the show starts previewing late september and runs through october you still like theater better there's nothing like it and it's tightrope walking without a net and as bitchiness as once the curtain open i think the directors are getting more that's true and you're doing you know this three hour play this epic through our play every night as opposed to you know three and a half pages of dialogue what do you like about it's three hours and it's it's certainly not laughing it's certainly not it's certainly tension filled sure. you know it's every scene in that plays apic i think it's probably the most epic female role ever written i mean even when blanche is offstage she has to sing from

the bath up and then as far as you know stanley i just think those characters are so they're so true they're so real like you know those people were you affected by the way brando did it. sure and i think is as a young actor he was one of those people that i you know i saw streetcar first lot probably saw the godfather first and then my father sat me down a sicilian so he sat me down and said he said what i'm about the you let me sit in his chair which is a really big deal you know you can't sit in dad's chair you know we let me sit there and he had that videotape he said are your society and this is your birthright and he put it in the godfather so i think that's how i was introduced to brando but then after that i saw streetcar and after such streak i had to see everything the god so you know he was a big influence on me wanting to become an actor i wanted to do i want to do that i want to be that and so to get to play this role which is you know part of my favorite plays is you know is it a hard role it's very language beautiful yeah it's

it's it's challenging you know people always joke and say oh you know stella but i mean what's really behind that is. you know this man's gotten drunk and beating his pregnant wife and he's that has to be from your gut from the depths of your soul that as an apology to her i mean the hair on the audience's neck has to stand up when you do that and so to find that place to come from there's no way to to fake that so i think the play is very true very true to human emotion and i think that that's the challenge is it is finding that place every night and blanche is certainly complicated very complicated we you up for superman. the director is a huge fan of true blood and i think when he was watching my you know one of my first few episodes on true blood he noticed me and this was even before he was signed on to to direct. and then you know one of the producers of superman is one

of the owners co-owners of the pittsburgh steelers so i was on their radar they were making a suit for me to screen test and. stepped in and stopped it from happening because you know when you when you get when you sign a t.v. contract it's six years and you're signed and you belong to them for these dates and they were due the play which so it's in my off season so they they weren't willing to give me up for half a season to go shoot superman and come back with your family supporting the society and family say it's ok to be an actor my mother did my father want to be a college football player you want to go on and play sports you know your high school football play football basketball volleyball and you know colleges were looking at me and i looked like that was a good way to go why did you. i was always an artistic kid growing up and i just knew that i had that thing in me and if i want to go play college sports and focused all my energy on that i think i would have left a huge side of my personality i developed when we announced that we were going to

take you today we got females as king for your hand in marriage have you gotten this on and as it embarrasses me react to it. not so i don't necessarily get marriage proposals i get proposals for other things but not necessarily marriage. i have a girlfriend i have a girlfriend serious yeah serious. i mean what if you know it all for each area other she react to well she was a fan of true blood when we met so you know i think she knew the deal she knew that we have some say a twitter question social media questions for you donna on twitter wants to know how many charlene harris books have you read and when you read the final one well. in preparation for my audition i read three four five in about half of six so you know once the show runs its course i will probably give it some time and then

a few years later go back and start from the getting in the good books are there fun crystal below us on twitter as what was your favorite true blood episode so far my favorite true blood episode so far was probably. she's. probably my first one i think it will always stand out in my mind because it was a bit like being sucked into the t.v. and being on my favorite show amanda hauser on twitter wants to know word on the street is that yes true blood is going to be given the true death meaning it won't work turn after this season i don't think that's true date back to ny that rule that is not true we're definitely set up for another season so mary ann on twitter wants to know will you be required to shave off you'll be at a cut you had to play stanley in streetcar sure known in the one nine hundred fifty s. had a beard and hair like mine that worked the job that stanley works so it will be coming off yes c.n. brewington on twitter what are your plans as far as acting goes after trueblood any

upcoming roles we should know about after true blood will you know. definitely some action movies. about the sequel to the magic mike. yeah if they get a script and director share and then a definite want to do a plan broadway just to go limp on instagram wants to know where do you see is open ten years running my own studio oh really yeah i'm directing a documentary right now on course with the book and my brother and i started a production company has been you know working as a producer for the past eight years so we combine forces and we've got a few things going right now so developing projects for me in not for me ever get back to his work i do as much as i can you know a lot of the great down low and you know great baseball stadium great the best even the best of the best we show a little thing we called if you only knew just quick question a person you like most like to meet the. person i'd most like the jim morrison.

i interviewed him there's you. he was the best loved and it was so i'm like ok i would have to say i never met a bit a little bit of mars die when he was what twenty seven seven i think is the magic number the first person you kissed yesterday what was your name. kelly o'connor tele o'connor right pittsburgh out of her out of the ball practice one day whoa whoa whoa you i was so it's beginning at sixth grade. oh you're playing football pop warner yeah. if you could change one thing about yourself what would it be. and i clone myself so i could be in two places at once and get more sleep tell me something no one knows about you no one knows she's a little thing no one know something nobody knows you know my eyes are so bad that laser surgery can't really cure them so i will either were glasses or contacts

for the rest of my life i would contact no work on the chair with too much of what is your preschooler money is over five hundred what is what's it's a minus eight plus as they went in and both us so if you had glasses they'd be torn room there by super thick each other like crazy crazy thing and the lasers didn't work they can't and i don't have enough microns to do the the flap to flap the lens up and they just can't get the lasers in because my eyes are so oddly shaped the person you most look up to a person i most look up to. because now that i am that i'm getting older i realize how much for spy and a whole a new homeowner i realize how. how difficult that probably was for my dad so i think i respect him more and more the older that i get it you know the subtle statement i thought my father was so stupid and amazing on

a couple years he got so smart. thank you job and great guy catch him sunday june sixteenth on the true blood season premier eastern only on h.b.o. and will be can find me on twitter at kings things see you next up.

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the message was because you see it was a highly visible critique of the too big to fail banks and if there's one thing we've learned by now is that the banks always win and anyone who tries to fight him will always alludes that's exactly what's happening right now to a forty year old man named jeff olson who drew a number of anti mega banks slogans on sidewalks and part of thirteen different bank of america is in san diego and just for illustrating his opinion olson was charged with thirteen counts of vandalism that's right vandalism for drawing in the washer bowl shop you know the stuff kids use so olson will now stand trial facing up to thirteen years in jail and thirteen thousand dollars in fines yet one year of jail and one thousand dollars for every slogan that could have easily been washed away with a little bit of water that sounds fair right well guys it gets worse because the judge in the case has ruled that olson will be.