Video: Joe Manganiello on White Collar

Manganiello on Matt Bomer and Becoming an Animal:

Joe Manganiello, better known to Truebies as the hottest werewolf around, Alcide on HBO’s True Blood, will be appearing on tomorrow night’s episode of White Collar. The USA series stars Matt Bomer, an old college classmate of Manganiello’s from Carnegie Mellon University. The pair will also be seen together on screen this summer, in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, a movie about male exotic dancers.

Check out the video below to see what Manganiello has to share about his buddy Matt and their college days, and don’t forget to catch White Collar Tuesday, January 31 at 10 pm ET on USA.

Source: Post-Gazette.com

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Season 5 Graphic Tease and New Game of Thrones Trailer

Be There or Be Square This Sunday Night:

Truebies, HBO is all abuzz with True Blood activity, and we’ve gotten word that there will be a short, graphic tease about Season 5 this Sunday night at 8:58 pm. Immediately following will be a new trailer for Season 2 of Game of Thrones, an extended look at the new season, for all you dedicated Thronies! These teases will precede the series premiere of Luck, a drama which we reported on here.

The Game of Thrones trailer will be available here and here, and the True Blood graphic tease will be available at HBO.com and the True Blood blog after debuting on the network.

Don’t miss out on the first glimpse at Season 5 of True Blood, folks!

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Video: MTV Talks to True Blood Cast at the Golden Globes

 

Season 5 Looks To Shake Things Up!

Recently, MTV got to speak to not one, but FOUR cast members from HBO’s True Blood! Ryan Kwanten, Janina Gavankar, Carrie Preston and Joe Manganiello were present, even though True Blood was overlooked for nominations this year. While there is a bit of a wait until Season 5 starts up, the stars were happy to drop a few snippets of information.

Ryan Kwanten hints at maturity developing in Jason Stackhouse, especially since Andy Bellefleur is not currently being the best Sheriff.

Janina Gavankar suggests nothing ever stays perfect in Bon Temps, so perhaps there will be more complications for the Luna/Sam Merlotte relationship? She hopes not:

“I will always have hope for Sam. They are meant to be. Nobody understands you like another shifter.”

Carrie Preston also suggests there will be trouble between Arlene Fowler and Terry Bellefleur – especially now that an old friend of Terry’s has arrived!

As for our fave werewolf, Alcide? Well, his is the quote of the clip:

“We’ve seen that he’s a sweet guy; we’ve seen that he’s the kind of guy that would be great in a relationship. I think that you’re going to be introduced to a side of him that’s going to slam you up against the wall and go for it.”

Really? I’d like to see that!

Make sure you check out the full video and let us know what you think will happen in Season 5.

Source: MTV/Hollywood Crush – Joe Manganiello’s ‘True Blood’ Plans? ‘Slam You Up Against The Wall And Go For It’!

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Video: Season 1-3 Re-Cap of HBO’s True Blood

Take a Look Back at the First Three Seasons:

Bon Temps, Louisiana is just your typical small town right? WRONG! Filled with vampires, werewolves, werepanthers, witches, shapeshifters, and fairies, Bon Temps is anything but your typical town. HBO’s True Blood first created chaos when scientists discovered how to make synthetic blood that allowed vampires to live with humans peacefully…sort of.

Let’s take a look back at the first three seasons of mass chaos in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana.

 Season One Major Findings and Happenings:
-Sookie Stackhouse can read minds but not those of vampires and starts dating vampire Bill Compton
-Tara Thornton, Sookie’s best friend, has a crush on Sookie’s brother, Jason Stackhouse, and has been abused by her alcoholic mother
-Sookie’s grandma, Adele Stackhouse, is murdered in her own home
-We meet Vampire Sheriff of Area Five Eric Northman, his child Pam De Beaufort, who both run the vampire club Fangtasia
- Rene Lenier was the serial killer of the Merlotte’s waitresses, not Jason Stackhouse

Season Two Major Findings and Happenings:
-Maenad Maryann Forrester comes to Bon Temps to stir things up, putting the entire town under a sexual euphoric spell
-Arlene Fowler and Terry Bellefleur get engaged while Sookie rejects Bill’s proposal of marriage
- Tara falls in love with Eggs while Hoyt Fortenberry and Jessica Hamby fall in love
- Jason joined and left The Fellowship of the Sun
-With Bill’s help, Sam Merlotte kills Maryann

Season Three Major Findings and Happenings:
-Arlene is pregnant with Rene’s devil baby
-Bill is kidnapped by the Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington, who is on a quest for power
-With the help of Alcide Herveaux to protect her, thanks to Eric Northman, Sookie sets out to find her vampire lover
-Sam tracks down his real family and finds out he has a shapeshifter brother, Tommy Mickens, who is forced to particpate in dog fights by his family
-After finding out Russell killed his entire family, Eric kills his lover Talbot and enlists the help of Bill to bury Russell in cement

Check out the short video for the re-cap of seasons 1-3! Excited for season 5 Truebies?

Source: HBO on YouTube

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True Blood’s Anna Paquin Makes PopSugar’s Top 10 List

Top 10 Iconic Golden Globes Gowns:

Fans of HBO’s True Blood already knew Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse) was a snappy dresser, but PopSugar has now made it official! Our fave telepath has made it to their Top 10 List of Iconic Gloden Globes Dresses from decades past.

And it was an auspicious list too. The likes of Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner, and Nicole Kidman are all there.

Thanks to @arlenefowlerbt for sharing this news!

Let us know what you think of the dress by commenting below.

 

Source: AOL.com – Top 10 Golden Globe Gowns

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Video: Deborah Ann Woll’s Boyfriend on Running Blind

EJ Scott Running to Raise Funds for Charity:

Improv comedian EJ Scott, Deborah Ann Woll’s boyfriend, will be running 12 marathons blindfolded in 12 different states during the course of 2012. The purpose of these marathons is to raise money for the Choroideremia Research Foundation.

Choroideremia is a disease which causes a gradual degeneration of the peripheral vision, with the person eventually becoming completely blind.

Check out the video below to learn more about this disease and Scott’s quest to raise money for the charity. Let’s all wish him luck!

 

Contribution credit: @ArleneFowlerBT

Source: AOL.com - You’ve Got EJ Scott

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Spoiler: Christopher Meloni on True Blood Season 5 Cast!

Gorgeous Star of OZ and Law and Order: SVU Joining S5!

Better news could not have rocked my Wednesday morning/week/month.  I’m overjoyed, like a gay kid on Christmas who just received his first Judy Garland album, to hear that Christopher Meloni, the hunk from OZ and SVU, will be joining the True Blood cast as a regular in in Season 5.  I’ve loved Christopher Meloni, as apparently many queers have, since his frequent nudity and depiction of man-on-man love aired in HBO’s series OZ.  In the 90s, you’ll remember, “the world was a lot different… There was no Glee, men didn’t kiss on camera, but Chris Meloni did.”  He also played a doofy, but always sexy in cutoff jean shorts, camp chef in Wet Hot American Summer (alongside Paul Rudd and Janeane Garofalo.)

Alan Ball revealed that Meloni’s character will be “an ancient, powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill and Eric in his hands.”  Awesome! I can’t wait to see the strapping Meloni exude his impressive sexiness all over the screen.  I’ve missed him in the cast of SVU since he left.  The show is seriously lacking since the oft quick-tempered, Elliott Stabler’s upper-hand is missing, but I couldn’t be happier that he’s joining the cast of True Blood.  The thought of his empirical comfortability with nudity for HBO is sending me into wild True Blood fantasies involving Bill and Eric… Fans can also wait, with bated breath I’m sure, for the new Superman movie to be released in 2013 that will feature Meloni.

Below is a tamed, YouTube version of some of Meloni’s gay scenes from OZ. Racier ones can be found elsewhere.  ;)

Truebies, let’s hear about how excited this news makes you in the comments section!

Sources: AroundtheNetworks.com, YouTube

Photo:  Quotesby.co.uk

Video: Joe Manganiello Joins Funny or Die’s Satirists

The Beefcake Makes Us Laugh:

Joe Manganiello (Alcide Herveaux on True Blood) must have a funny bone in his rippling, epically-muscled body.  He’s teamed up with Funny or Die to give fans a spoof trailer of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” a film set to debut December 21 based on a book with the same name.

Check out the video below (hilariously titled “The Girl with the Tramp Stamp Tattoo;” trashy, 20-something, female stereotypes ensue) and share the laughs in the comment section.  While his character doesn’t say much in the clip, my favorite line is “Oh God.” The delivery and tone proves flawless.

Source: Funny or Die

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Video: Kristin Bauer van Straten on Celebrity Ghost Stories

Season 3 Episode 12:

Fans of both Kristin Bauer van Straten (Pam on HBO’s True Blood), and Celebrity Ghost Stories are in for a treat with this YouTube video!

Pam discusses an encounter from the other side, but first explains her beliefs:

“I believe and I know so strongly that we are beings that live in bodies and bodies come and go, but you can’t kill a soul.”

Bauer then goes on to discuss her father and the role he played in her life as she was growing up, as well as the devastation of discovering that her father had cancer and his subsequent death.

She then proceeds to discuss her life after the death of her father and how she managed to purchase a house that belonged to actor John Wayne and his wife.

Make sure you check out the whole video for her ghostly encounter in that house!

Source: YouTube -  Kristin Bauer – Celebrity Ghost Stories S03 EP12

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Video: Joe Manganiello Reveals His Love for True Blood

Yorkshire Terriers, Love Squares, and Werewolves, Oh My!

In a recent interview, Emma Roberts, an Entertainment Reporter for MSN Entertainment, spoke with the statuesque Joe Manganiello about his role as Alcide Herveaux on HBO‘s True Blood.  At 6’5″ and 225 lbs, Manganiello is not only a beefy hunk of a man, but as Roberts notes, is charming and adorable.  When Alcide growls, Manganiello revealed that he’s channelling his 8 lb Yorkshire Terrier when Hercules (how effing sexy is a big man with a tiny dog named Hercules?) is threatened with the prospect of losing his pig-ear treat. If you weren’t swooning over Joe before, now would be a good time to start.

What Manganiello loves, and what audiences love about his role as Alcide, is what we love about dogs: “he’s very loyal, he has a big heart; no matter all the bad things that happen to him, he keeps coming back.”  And why does Alcide originally fall for Sookie?  She smells good.  (I wish he’d sniff me out!)

About the forming love square between his character, Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton and Eric Northman, Manganiello surmises,

“My character offers something very different to the other two vampire suitors – he can go out with Sookie during the day, take her to tea, go to the beach. So they can do other things in the daylight that the others can’t.”

He adds that vampires can be “savage and duplicitous.” Whereas werewolves can also be savage, “Alcide in particular has a very strong moral code which isn’t necessarily present in the other characters on the show.”  He articulates that Alcide has fallen for Sookie because she has a spunk, an energy of light; when he’s forced to take her into the underground world of werewolves in Season 3, he feels inclined to protect her and those feelings never disappear.

Truebies, if you want to enjoy Manganiello’s delightful personality in video form, watch the full interview below and let us know what you think in the Comments section!

Source: MSN UK TV

Photo: HBO

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