Joe Manganiello showed off a beautiful new Dungeons & Dragons table made for him by Black Forest Wood Co. in a video he posted on Instagram on Saturday.
The 46-year-old actor – wife of Sofía Vergara revealed was a ‘nerd’ in 2017 – shared a clip of the installation of the table.
The video starts with the star seeing the table and honestly saying ‘Holy sh*t’.
A member of Black Forest Wood Co., based in Canada, said in a voiceover that the company had been tasked with making a table for its next D&D campaign.
According to the voice-over, this table was made of bastogne walnut and had a midnight blue base layer with a clear top layer.
New Table: Joe Manganiello showed off a beautiful new Dungeons & Dragons table made for him by Black Forest Wood Co. in a video he posted on Instagram on Saturday
The table had clear land and water bodies, and the Black Forest team brought the table to Los Angeles for delivery.
After opening the table, Joe seemed in awe of its beauty as he walked around it to examine every nook and cranny.
When asked if he liked it, the True Blood actor replied, “Yeah, it’s a fucking wild man.”
He went on to name several celebrities with whom he campaigned in the fantasy role-playing game, including Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, comedian Vince Vaughn, director James Gunn, and Tiffany Haddish.
Vergara made a quick cameo in the video, handing their beloved dog Bubbles over to Joe.
He talked about how many “little nuances” the table had, adding that he was “stunned.”
Joe is a well-documented nerd and his wife Sofía mentioned it on a red carpet in 2017.
“The highlight of his life is playing Dungeons and Dragons,” she jokingly said at the time. “He’s talking to about eight friends… He’s got a dungeon room downstairs.”
Vergara also opened up about his addiction to the game in 2020 during an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show, when she said he still played with his crew via Zoom.
“It’s super weird,” she said at the time. “They’re really weird.”
‘Nerd’: The 46-year-old actor – who his wife Sofía Vergara revealed in 2017 was a ‘nerd’ – shared a clip of the table installation
‘Holy sh*t’: The video starts with the star seeing the table and honestly saying ‘Holy sh*t’
D&D table: A member of Black Forest Wood Co., based in Canada, said in a voiceover that the company had been commissioned to make a table for its next D&D campaign
Overwhelmed: After opening the table, Joe seemed in awe of its beauty, moving around it to examine every nook and cranny
‘Wild’: When asked if he liked it, the True Blood actor replied, ‘Yeah, it’s a fucking wild man
Cameo: Vergara made a quick cameo in the video, handing over their beloved dog Bubbles to Joe
Playing via Zoom: Vergara also spoke about his addiction to the game in 2020 during an interview on The Kelly Clarkson Show when she said he still played with his crew via Zoom
Open: Joe has been very open about his love for the game in previous interviews, after telling The Hollywood Reporter about it in 2017
Playing for years: “I ended up spending every summer on an island in Maine and the kids on that island were avid role-playing enthusiasts,” he said in the interview. “It was like the Blind Melon video when the gates open and it’s the land of the bees!” You meet your own kind’
However, she was also a supportive husband, adding, “But it sounds nice. Joe is a complete geek. I always tell him he’s stuck in the wrong body.’
Joe has been very open about his love of the game in previous interviews, after bringing it up The Hollywood Reporter in 2017.
“I ended up spending every summer on an island in Maine and the kids on that island were role-playing fanatics,” he said in the interview. ‘It was like the Blind Melon video when the gates open and it’s the land of the bees! You meet your own kind.’
He went on to say that he’s usually the dungeon master, the person who runs the games and comes up with the storylines, rather than a general player.
