A close-up shot of a scruffy Joe Manganiello is featured on the cover of the March issue of Out magazine.

Lensed by Matthew Brooks, the 36-year-old heartthrob talks to the magazine about his nude scenes on ‘True Blood’.

“As far as the butt cheek stuff goes… it just makes sense. It’s not gratuitous; it’s realistic. If you’re a werewolf and you transform, you lose everything and there are your butt cheeks. The show is a deconstruction of supernatural creatures. It’s not like other werewolf projects, where you magically reappear with tiny jean shorts on”, Joe explains to Out.

A close-up shot of a scruffy Joe Manganiello is featured on the cover of the March issue of Out magazine.

Lensed by Matthew Brooks, the 36-year-old heartthrob talks to the magazine about his nude scenes on ‘True Blood’.

“As far as the butt cheek stuff goes… it just makes sense. It’s not gratuitous; it’s realistic. If you’re a werewolf and you transform, you lose everything and there are your butt cheeks. The show is a deconstruction of supernatural creatures. It’s not like other werewolf projects, where you magically reappear with tiny jean shorts on”, Joe explains to Out.