Joe Manganiello is featured in Elle Magazine and talks about how knew that in order to chase his dream he’d be forced to disappoint his father.
“There was a point when I was really down, uninspired, and in a bad place. I didn’t want to be an actor anymore. I was done because I thought that acting didn’t mean anything—that I wasn’t making a difference in people’s lives. I ended up seeing a therapist to help get me out of that rut. One day she amazed me and said, ‘I became a therapist because I saw Thirteen, and that made me want to help people.’ It was just the craziest aha moment because if I hadn’t done that movie, she wouldn’t have been sitting across from me. That coincidence blew my mind, and that fateful moment changed my whole perspective. It was a wake up call that what you do matters. When I create things and put them out into the world, even if I can’t always see the results, things happen unexpectedly. Some things die; art lives on and continues to inspire.”
source: Elle Magazine
