Joe Manganiello: “We’re gonna go further than my character went in the books.”

At last night’s Duracell event to support the U.S. Olympic basketball team, True Blood star Joe Manganiello gave Extra some tantalizing teases about season 5.

He’s already worked more in the first six episodes of True Blood season 5 than he did in all of seasons 3 and 4, and he promises that Alcide will go further than he did in the books – “action-wise, romantically…” Ooooh!