Since making his debut as werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO's True Blood in 2010, Joe Manganiello has become a major sex symbol for gay men and straight females alike.

Manganiello reveals in the cover story of the current issue of OUT Magazine that he does not not feel exploited by having to reveal his buff body when he transforms from human form to lupine form.

'As far as the butt cheek stuff goes, it just makes sense,' he says. '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.'

Manganiello will also be wearing very little in the upcoming feature film Magic Mike in which he joins Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer and others as male strippers working at a club.

They dance for women at the club but the film is said to also be homoerotic.

His character is called Big Dick Richie but the actor will not reveal whether he stuffed his G-string for the role.

'Um, I’ll let everybody see the movie and they can decide,' he says.

But one thing he does make clear is that he did not do any waxing.

'I don’t have any body hair,' he says. 'It stops at my neck. I’m part Sicilian and Armenian.'

Manganiello tells OUT that he doesn’t mind one bit that this is the second big role that requiring him to show lots of skin.

'Somebody’s gotta do it,' he says. 'Am I afraid of being typecast? I could care less.'