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BuzzWorthy Radio: Joe Manganiello!

Joe Manganiello, who many fans know as Owen Morello on the CW's One Tree Hill, will be making his first appearance on BuzzWorthy Radio! Aside from being an actor, Manganiello is also a stunt actor. Hear about his stunt work on the series, as well as other work he has been in. Be sure to catch Joe Manganiello back as Owen when One Tree Hill returns with brand new episodes January 5, 2009 at 9 PM EST, only on the CW!

Duration:: 29m
Broadcast on:: 05 Jan 2009
Audio Format:: other

This is Sam Jagger from Eli's Stone and it was seeing the buzzworthy radio and it is buzzworthy. All right, welcome back you guys into our second program of the day. We were only supposed to have two programs and now it turned into three. So this is our second program of the day on the PWR. It's still January 5th, 2009. The day didn't change yet. It's going to change in 12 hours from now to 12 PM Eastern time here on the new buzzhog radio. I'm still, I still can't get over how awesome the site looks, it's amazing. I'm head over heels and love with it so, you know, I'm going to be talking about it the rest of my days on this network though, you know, it can't be helped. But the reason why we have a second show on the floor today is that we are now going to be joined by Mr. Joe and Jenny Yellow, who plays Owen on One Tree Hill, which new episodes of the show premiered tonight at 9 PM Eastern time on the CW. So make sure you guys check that out and you will be back on here and doing some more episodes. You'll be on the episodes tonight, so make sure you guys watch out for that. So that's going to be coming out. He's going to be calling it very shortly. It's going to be fun to get that pinned out, I'm happy about that. Also, on our third show for tonight, we are going to be joined by Katherine Hickland who played the role of Lindsay Ramboport on One Life to Live. Her character is now in jail. The sense of character is in jail, she decided Katherine to keep herself busy by hosting her own blood talk radio show. So she has joined the ranks of being a part of our lovely community here as well as the aspect of also having her own book that you can purchase at Amazon.com, The Heartbreak Cure. So we are going to be talking with her tonight as well about all those things and what else she's been up to lately. I mean, Katherine had a special thing close to my heart because she was our first celebrity guest on the show and, you know, I always have special regard to that show and to her personally. She's a very wonderful, personable woman, I love it, and I love her, you know, she's absolutely amazing and fantastic. So, you know, the first show when we had her on the program when she was our first guest, you know, it's very dear to my heart. And I will keep saying that until my guy rests basically. So it's absolutely fantastic for her to come back onto the show and having that high regard for her. So I'm absolutely, I'm enjoying it, so I'm very pleased with that that she's going to be enjoying us again tonight. Also this month we're going to be joined by the writer and the star of My Bloody Valentine 3D that my co-host Matthew Princeton was actually a stand-in for and he was actually a stand-in for Ten Snackles. If you see the promo of it, you'll probably only be able to see like five seconds of his face. And that's about it. And make sure you guys check that out as well. And Dan Giefling, so Big Brother 10, the winner, Big Brother 10, will also be joining us on January 20th at 10 PM each of your time. But I see our guest is here. Let's bring him on the line, shall we? Joe, are you with us? Yeah, I'm here. How you doing? I'm good, man. How are you? I'm great. Thanks. Great. Awesome. Awesome. I was just telling the fan that the new episodes for One Tree Hill start up tonight at 9 PM on the CW, which I hear you will also be on. Yes. Well, and the ongoing saga that is going on right now with Owen. Yes, the ongoing saga, oh, and now for those of you who don't know who Owen is, we had a caller actually in our last segment talking about this. And she just got caught up with this season of One Tree Hill, so she's been like eight episodes behind. So for those people like that who basically are busy and have no other life but school and work and have no idea about the character of Owen yet, describe the character of Owen's work. Owen's been on the show, this is my second season on the show, and Owen is the on again and off again love interest of Brooke. And this season, things have gotten a little bit crazy, especially in the last few episodes. You know, Owen was a sober bartender and that's in question and it's also in question whether or not Brooke and Owen are now going to wind up together, things from the last episode. The cliffhanger, you know, leads you to believe that it might go off in a different direction. Right. Exactly. I mean, I'm hearing him from all the fans everywhere that they just like, you know, Brooke and Owen together, Brooke and Julian, it's just the combating thing with the whole thing. I'm actually intrigued by it. I actually think that's Brooke and Owen should get together, but I'll probably get hate mail at the end of this program. It seems like there's a lot of Brooke and Owen fans out there, but I think that the stuff that's happened lately has kind of made things, made the situation a little sticky. Now, how did the role of Owen come about for you on the show? Well, I had auditioned, you know, I live in Los Angeles and the audition, you know, came up for One Tree Hill and I'd never watched the show. You know, I'd heard of it, but I actually really didn't know too much about it and that went in and auditioned, I guess there were probably about 30, 30 guys that auditioned for it and after the first audition, they cut it down to, there was two of us. It was me and another guy from Scotland, I think, and the two of us were the finalists and they wound up picking me and it was, I was signed on for one episode with a possibility of more tonight's episode will be my 12th episode, so it's worth it. Congratulations. Thanks. And you have an impressive resume, you know, I was reading up on it on your official website and I cannot believe everything that you've been in. I mean, you, I can't count it on one hand, let alone say them all on one hand and it's just, it's absolutely phenomenal. You started, you started your training at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, which I heard of, which is a really good school and you've also, you've also done theater, you've done a lot of theater and you are originally from Pittsburgh, originally? Yes, I am. It's my hometown, Go Steelers. Nice. My co-host who is not here with us now since his phone died is actually from Pittsburgh, so he was actually, and he was actually intrigued by that, so yeah, I didn't even know it at the time, I said, man, we got a lot of people on from Pittsburgh, that's amazing. And you've done a lot of, a lot of television work you did, and I have to describe and see his eye and so notorious, which I really thought that was a good show, by the way. I love so notorious. It was a, it was a great show, it was really funny and I thought of all the, kind of the show's the poke front in LA, I thought that one was, was pretty dead on. Yeah, it's, it's too bad, it didn't, it didn't wind up on the air longer, but it's funny to imagine, you know, you imagine Carnegie Mellon, and there were three other Carnegie Mellon grads on that show with me. So it was basically Tori Spelling and then four Carnegie Mellon kids. So we're definitely out there, and there's, it's good to know that there's a, a market out there for, you know, classically trained theater actors in Hollywood. Now, I'm doing, doing theater and, and television and, and the movies, out of those three genres, which one do you prefer if you can pick? Like, do you have like a specific one that you'd like to know more than anything else or? I like them for different reasons. I love film and television because you, you can do things in film and television that you can't do on stage or in theater. I mean, I can't, I can't play slam ball, you know, in theater. I just got done last night, I'm actually here in Pittsburgh right now. We have the Pittsburgh premiere last night of my new movie Behind Enemy Lines, Columbia, which is DVD, which is DVD tomorrow, and, and, and that's, you know, that's an action movie, like a straight up Navy Seal action movie, and once again, you know, you can't run around with guns shooting at Columbians on stage, I mean, you could, you know, really gives the dollars to put up. So, so there's, there's, the things that I love about film and television that I get the opportunity to do, but there's nothing, nothing like that live audience, and I really think that theater is what, as far as actors go, it's what separates the men from the boys. I mean, you can take, give them two or three lines, film it, and they can flub it or mess it up and shoot it again, but you give somebody a hundred and eight page play, like street car named Desire, and, you know, give them a week of rehearsal, and, you know, I'd, I'd like to see the average Ellie actor put that up, it just, it just can't, it can't work that way. And, and then also you get that live audience, you get that interface, that, that feed off of them and, right, it's a, it's a rush, there, it's nothing, even you can't, you can't sleep when you get done with the show. I mean, you stay awake till five in the morning, you cannot go to sleep because you have that rush, you know, that adrenaline, it's, it's, it's real, it's amazing, it's an amazing, amazing thing. Right, and on live theater, if you mess up, everyone's going to see it, you know, there's no retakes, you know, if you mess up on live theater, everybody's going to see it, and it's just like, oh crap, what am I supposed to do now? I mean, that kind of thing, for me, and that, that's really fun, and like you said, it's a rush for that kind of experience. Well yeah, it's tightrope walking without a net, you know, and that's why people pay to go to theater. I mean, you're watching these, these people up, you know, 50 feet up off of the ground, no net, you know, and, and film, film does have that net, but, you know, to come from a training, you know, a background that I came from or come from classical theater, you know, somebody was asking me, what happens when actors screw up on set, or, you know, blah, blah, blah, and, you know, my answer was, you don't screw up, you know, do not, you know, you, you, you, and that's, you know, kind of something that you learn from theater. Exactly. Now there was something I had read that I thought was very, very interesting. Besides an actor, you're also a stunt actor, is that correct? Well, I mean, I'm, I'm, I want to say I want to make clear, I'm not a stunt man, I have a stunt man. His name's Oliver Keller, he's a guy from my, he's from Switzerland and he's been doing my stunts since Spiderman back, and I will when he filmed it in 2001, so, and, and he's a stunt man. He is crazy. He'll do anything, and, I mean, and he's trained and, and, and to take, you know, jump off buildings and deal with explosions and, you know, crazy, crazy stuff that could, you know, potentially harm me and, and therefore shut down production. So, but, but I am an actor that comes from an athletic background. I get cast in a lot of athletic parts, whether, whether it's, you know, doing, you know, shooting slam ball or, you know, running around, you know, in this Navy Seal movie. And so because of that background, I can wind up doing a lot of my own stunts, which in turn helps production because, you know, you think in, they can, you know, shoot things a little bit closer, shoot it from different angles and catch my face doing these stunts and, you know, it helps lead the editing process. So, so I do a lot of my own stunts, but, you know, I am not, I'm not quote unquote a stunt man. My, my stunt double, he's a stunt man, he's, you know, he's, I mean, they're, they're a different breed. Okay. Yeah, because I was like wondering, I was like, wow, he also does his own stunts too. So I was like, I, I thought that, that was cool, but yeah, yeah, I do a lot of, like, you know, the fights and the things like that that I can pull off of me now, you know, my new movie has a huge knife fight in it at the end. And that was something that, you know, because of my background, I could, I could do, I could do on my own. They wanted to use the stunt doubles, but because I could, you know, pull it off and, then, you know, I get to do it, which means I have more work to do, but, but it means that I kind of have a, you know, fuller, more fun experience at the end of the day. Exactly. More training. Exactly. Yeah. More. Now, did you want to be an actor growing up with this, with your passion that you wanted to get into at a younger age or did you have something else that you wanted to do in mind? I think, you know, when I was a little kid, I, I think I wanted to be like a race car driver because I had seen speed racer cartoons and then, and then when I found out you don't jump out of your car and beat people up and, and recover stolen gold and get back in your car. And I realized that's not what racing is all about, I kind of like it. But then getting older, you know, I was always an athlete, you know, I played football, basketball and volleyball, you know, and then high school, high school level and I could have played them in college. But, and I think somewhere in college, I was kind of figuring, okay, I'm going to go play sports and I wanted to study something in law enforcement. I thought I had a cousin in the FBI and I was starting to look into, you know, doing that. But we had a, we had a TV studio at my high school, which back in those days was unheard of. We didn't have gene computers. I mean, you know, editing days and, and, and those TV directing days were these huge things that took up entire roots. And, and, and I loved it. I got that bar of these cameras and I'd write those scripts for me and my friends and we go film movies on the weekends and edit them together and put on soundtracks and, and that was really the first thing I was really passionate about. It was my first love, I mean, it was my first real love and, and from there that made me start thinking, okay, maybe I need to stop making fun of these black turtleneck wearing, you know, thespian kids and maybe I need to take, maybe I should take an acting class. So as a senior in high school, I took the freshman at session level acting classes. So it was these little freshman kids and then me giant, this giant senior in the class doing these breathing exercises, that was weird stuff, but that's kind of how it started. And then I wound up getting a scholarship to, to go to Carnegie Mellon, which was, you know, I mean, such an honor and such a shot in the dark. There were 800 people that tried out my year and they took 17 actors and, and I was one of them. So, I mean, that's such a, such an honor to do that. And then, you know, I made it through all four years and people don't make it through all four years. So, you know, I made it through that and the rest is, is kind of history. But yeah, I just kind of fell onto it and realized, you know, was, was love at first sight. And that was it. I was like, okay, this is what I'm going to do and, you know, come out of high water. Exactly. And that story alone is just like inspirational is just like if you really want to do something that you feel like you love and it's your passion, just go for it no matter how late in life you think it is that you're getting into it, go ahead and go, you know. It's a tough, it's a really tough business. I mean, it is, you know, and you, and that's kind of what, you know, people also have such a tough business. But you know, for me, you know, the word love or, or being in love with something, it just means that you're willing to fight for it and, and that's, and that's just how I feel about, about acting, about, about filmmaking, about, you know, the whole process, the, you know, the ensemble, the camaraderie, the backstage stuff, the offsets, the, I mean, I love it. I love being around it. I love being there. And, you know, when times are rough, it's like, I love it enough to keep fighting for it. Exactly. And I like that. I like that answer. Very good. Did, do you have any, any actors that you looked up to that inspire you? Yeah, I did, when I, when I first, you know, started acting, Gary Oldman, Gary Oldman has always been my favorite actor, just hands down. I mean, that guy has just, you know, continually transformed himself and, I mean, especially when he was younger, man, that guy was a rock star, you know, I mean, I just, just, he was still alive and, and such a maniac in his parts, you know, I was just, you know, you can't take your eyes off the guy, whether it was playing Sid, Sid Vicious and Sid Nancy or, you know, Dracula or Beethoven and Immortal Love It or Drexel and True Romance. I mean, that guy just, the span of parts that he played and, and the, the creativity that he brought to it and the vibrancy, I really, I loved that guy. I, I still do. I mean, you look at him in the Batman and how he's kind of, you know, reinvented himself and Harry Potter and kind of, you know, turned into this kind of older man, but, but still doing some really interesting stuff. I love that guy. You know, of course, you know, I grew up watching Brando and James Dean and funny to watch, funny to watch those guys when you're younger and kind of idolize them and then you grow up and realize, like, I idolize this, like, crazy 400-pound weirdo guy, you know, like, who lives on an idol and it's, I'm idolizing this crazy guy who is miserable and sitting outside the church and there's like, ex-girlfriend is getting married and then crashes and calls me. Wait a minute. You know what I mean? Maybe, maybe I shouldn't idolize these guys so much, you know, it always, oh, it scares me. The girls that have, you know, I go, you meet a girl and you're over at a apartment or something and she's got all these Marilyn Monroe posters all over the place and you just kind of look at her and are like, do you really understand what you're idolizing right now? They're crazy, you know, so, you know, I think Gary Oldman's aging well and if he's somebody that I can, I don't know, he's probably a safe bet to stick around for a while. And that segues into my next question, do you have any actor or access do you like to work with in any medium? Oh, if I could pick anybody, I mean, well, I mean, I think Kate Blanchett is the best actor's going right now. I think she's amazing. I mean, did you see Benjamin Button? Yes. I mean, she did think I would actually like that movie to be quite honest with you. You know, Brad Pitt, but. No, she's amazing. I mean, and how smart she is and how much of an understanding she has of human nature. I mean, when she plays the girl in her 20s, it's like that's every girl I've ever met in her 20s. You know, and then the older woman, I mean, just the amount of grace and ease that she has. I mean, she's amazing. So obviously, yeah, I think she's great. Elizabeth Banks, she's in Zach and Miri make a porno and she's okay. But she, every time I see her man, I think she is fantastic, whether it's dramatic or comedic. And, you know, she's somebody that I definitely I think would have a lot of fun working with. And, you know, aside from that, you know, as far as the guys go, I mean, obviously, you know, it's very old and that would be great. But, you know, I think like Mel Gibson fan. I know that's kind of probably, you know, I could probably take flack for saying that. But I mean, I just, I love that guy's body work and, you know, so I like those, those man's men. I like Eric Fanon. I like Russell Crowe. I like those, you know, those kind of throwback old school tough guys. Pretty cool. Very, very cool. Now, do you have, I don't know if you know anything of what's to come with your character in one tree hill with Owen or not that you can give us? Do you have anything that you can speak? I don't give away what happens on tonight's episode. That's the one thing. I don't want to give that away. But after, but I will say that because of the events that happened last episode and this episode, because of that, I will be, Owen will be taking a break for a few episodes on one tree hill. But I've been assured by the show creator, Mark Schwan, that Owen is just taking a break and then I will come back, Owen will come back, but we're not sure what he's going to be doing and who he's going to be doing it with. Hmm. That's interesting. So in other words, you have to watch tonight. Oh, you guys. Yes. You've got to watch tonight. You've got to watch tonight. That's the final answer. Tune in tonight. Yeah. Do you have anything else in the works as far as the size one tree hill, are you doing anything else, do you have any other movies that were pitched and everything? Yeah. You know, once you know, I was recurring on the show till death with Brad Garrett, the sitcom and there's an episode, I have an episode of that that hasn't aired yet, but I'm not exactly sure when that's going to happen. And then of course, tomorrow, Tuesday, January 6th, the DVD release of my new movie that is starring behind enemy lines, Columbia, which is a pretty badass old school action movie. And there's also some stuff in there, I think, that the average one tree hill fan would like to. So that comes out tomorrow, so I'm really excited about that. You started that movie with Mr. Kennedy. Yeah, Mr. Kennedy was my right hand man in the movie. Dying. Yeah. Which is fun because I'm a big wrestling fan and always happens. So yeah, it was cool to hang out with him and get to know him. There's another Carnegie Mellon actor in there named Yancey Arias, he plays my nemesis, my Columbia nemesis and Steven Bauer from Scarface is in it. Keith David from Platoon and there's something about Mary and men at work, he's in it and then he was directed by Tim Matheson from Animal House of Fletch and West Wing and he's also in it. So there's some great, you know, older heavyweight actors and some, you know, some good young acting up and commercial. It's a really fun movie. That's really good. And then, I see he does Congest Boss on the side of the drama series, you know, like you said, Tiltath, which is a comedy, is comedy harder than drama like everybody says it is? Yes, yes it is. It's much more precise. Some of the smartest people I've ever met in entertainment work in comedy, those people are geniuses. They're magicians. They know how to, they know how to elicit a response from another human being. They know what to say to make someone laugh, they know what to say to make someone cry. I mean, they're just, they're geniuses and you clearly can't mess around with those words. You can't ad-lib. You can't, you know, you really have to stick to what's on the page. Those words have been scrutinized and then you also have to throw into that. There's that thing that people call timing. Timing. Right. I mean, they can't be caught, it's kind of this internal mechanism that this instinct that kind of tells you how to pause things out and space things out and it's just kind of this intangible thing that you have to mix with this intense, rigorous, you know, technical work. So yeah, comedy is tricky, man. It really, it really is. You have to work harder at the comedy, I think, than you can be a little dirtier with the drama. Kind of, kind of, you know, mumble it out or sluff it up a little bit and dirty it up, but you can't really do that with comedy. It has to be clean, precise, and sharp. I'd be very nervous to do a comedy show because I'm just not that funny. I mean, you know, I mean, I, hey, well, hey, you laugh, so I must be fine. But-- There it is. It was a lot-- But seeing for some of it, especially 'til that is a live audience. So once again, you've got to get out there and do it in front of a crowd, you know? Yeah, exactly. And it's just like, if you don't get that laughter, then it's just like, oh, fuck. Probably like the cleanest word I could use was just that word. I couldn't come over to anything cleaner than that, but you've got to have the chops for comedy, I think. Honestly, I don't think I do, but, yeah, I've heard differently, so, but if you've got it, use it. That's all I say. But then once again, I think that's something that I was prepared for by doing theater, coming from theater. I'm used to being up in front of an audience, and I'm used to making decisions, and making choices, and sharp choices, and things, and I think that that is-- that education is certainly well in comedy. For sure. Exactly. Very exactly. So before we let you go for the reigns here, I can't believe we're buying this half hour. Since you are actually second guest of the new year, we never had-- you'll be like our first guy to do a stinger for us. Would you like to record a stinger for our show? Yeah, let's do it. All right. You could say something along the lines of, hi, this is so-and-so, and you are listening to buzzworthy radio, if you can put your own spell on it, it doesn't have to be like that. You know, you can improvise it however you want. Right on. Cool. All right. Hey, yeah. Hey, this is Joe Manganello. You're listening to Buzzworthy Radio. I like it. I like it, sir. And for those of you who are listening out there, check it out once you're here tonight. You have to start tonight, 9 p.m. Eastern time on the CW. Joe is back as Owen, so you better watch, that's all I'm saying. Yeah. Find out what happens with Owen and Millie. Ooh. And find out why he's going on the break. Hey, there you go. Did you have a good time? Did you have a good time on the show? Oh, man. Yeah, it's a blast. I love it. And I love the character. And I love what they, you know, I mean, obviously the past couple of episodes, I read those scripts and kind of like, oh, no, come on, man, you know, but, but yeah, man, I have a blast. I mean, you kidding me? Like, it's like, just hang out with pretty girls all day. Where are I going for that? By the way, these people, these people often, you know, save lives and be this hero and, you know, yeah, it's just, come on, man, it's so cool. Great. Gee, where do I sign up for that job? You know what I mean? Yeah. Where do I send my headshots to? Who do I send my headshots to? Right? I know. So, seriously, yeah. I mean, I had no idea, really. I mean, I was, you know, I'd never really watched the show and then I found out, you know, once I, once I got there and was like, oh geez, wow, okay, I can do this. This is cool. You know, and then you kind of get out about the fan base and you find out how passionate all those fans are and you just, wow, you know, okay, this is, this is, you know, this is the whole, one tree hill world out there I had no idea about, but, yeah, no, it's been great. It's probably won't been one of the, been one of the highlights of my career, for sure, for sure. Absolutely. Well, we're going to be looking out for you on the show and definitely when the character Owen comes back, so, and we'd love to have you back on the show anytime. Absolutely. Anytime, man, this is a blast. She's so fun and I'm sorry about the time mix up. I know we were-- Hey. It happened. Well, look at the world of entertainment folks. That's how it is. That's how it is, man. I understand it completely. Don't worry. All right, man, we've been out for you. Take care. Good talking to you. All right, you guys. We are going to be back on again 9 p.m. Eastern time. I've been tickling. 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