{"id":4392,"date":"2009-12-28T17:08:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2009-12-28T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T22:08:44","slug":"how-i-met-your-mother-actor-cried-over-getting-true-blood-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/12\/28\/how-i-met-your-mother-actor-cried-over-getting-true-blood-part\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How I Met Your Mother&#8221; Actor Cried Over Getting &#8220;True Blood&#8221; Part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Manganiello, best known as Marshall&#8217;s law school &#8216;bro&#8217; Brad on &#8220;How I Met Your Mother,&#8221; tells Entertainment Weekly that he cried after learning he had been cast as werewolf Alcide on &#8220;True Blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not afraid to admit that I started crying. I was just so excited. It\u2019s a dream come true,&#8221; Manganiello tells EW&#8217;s Michael Ausiello.  &#8220;[When I was a kid], I would pray every day with all of my heart that God would turn me into a werewolf. And when it didn\u2019t happen, I kind of thought, &#8216;You know what? Maybe this stuff doesn\u2019t work. Maybe I\u2019m getting gypped.&#8217; So here it is 25 years later and my prayers got answered and I\u2019m going to be a werewolf.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manganiello, a self-professed fan of the acclaimed HBO series, notes that he has not yet met star Anna Paquin, who was unavailable for a read-through during the audition process.<\/p>\n<p>Set to begin shooting in late January, Manganiello confirmed he has begun his physical preparation for the part.<\/p>\n<p>Says the actor, &#8220;Every day right now is all about the Werewolf Workout. It consists of Krav Maga, which is an Israeli fighting technique, and Cross Fit, which is kind of a gnarly crazy high-intensity workout. 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