According to Deadline, Joe Manganiello claimed that he wished True Blood hadn’t killed off his character. Mangalliello played a werewolf named Alcide Herveaux on the HBO series. He announced his opinion on the SiriusXM radio show with Andy Cohan.
Deadline claimed that he said, “I thought there was so much left on the table for me. The thing about it was they never planned for me to be on the show past one season. I was signed up as a guest star my first season, and when my character really broke and people really loved the character, they were kind of unprepared for that to happen.”
He continued, said Deadline, claiming, “I wound up on the show for five years in total, but my character had to get out of the way so that Sookie could wind up settling the A and B plots with Bill and Eric, and the only way to get me out of the way was … spoiler alert … you know, to shoot me in the face. I really felt like there was a lot that was left unexplored.”
Manganiello had his character killed off in the seventh and final season, and was the second death of the season. His character death came after the death of the character Tara. The character of Alcide was shot in the chest after he followed another character, Sookie, into the forest, Deadline said.
Deadline also reported that Manganiello said he wouldn’t mind playing another werewolf character, saying, “I’m always on the lookout for like a good werewolf script for me because… I feel like there’s a lot in me that was unfinished. I have unfinished business in the werewolf department.”
Manganiello now serves as a game show host for the channel NBC, however. He has recently been seen on Deal Or No Deal as the host, Deadline said.