Joe Manganiello says the cast of True Blood was 'really, really overqualified'
Joe Manganiello says the cast of 'True Blood' was 'really, really overqualified': 'It's, like, people with Tonys and Oscars.' https://t.co/QLBWO7hSN0
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) July 25, 2024
True Blood was a campy, blood-soaked, incredibly naked cultural phenomenon when it aired on HBO from 2008 to 2014. According to Joe Manganiello, the cast was way too overqualified for it.
He called True Blood a really wild, crazy, intelligent show that pushed the culture forward.
He noted that pretty much the entire cast had some serious thespian pedigrees.
"Well, I should say the material was deceptively tricky because it was kind of written in like Tennessee Williams. It was very operatic at times. But, you know, but it's all theater kids. It's like people with Tonys and Oscars and, you know, Mike McMillan and I were the Carnegie Mellon kids, then there was Rutina and Nelsan were the Juilliard kids, then Chris Bauer was the Yalie, then you get West End of London, then you get this international cast. You got Skarsgård from Sweden. You had Moyer from England. And Anna, obviously, from New Zealand by way of Canada. It was really, really intelligent, trained actors."
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