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Joe Manganiello was a guest on “ID10T with Chris Hardwick” last week and spoke in great detail about all the preparation he did to play Deathstroke in The Batman when it was still Ben Affleck’s project. You can tell that Manganiello has a real love for the character, because when The Batman plans changed he put together a backstory and short script for a Deathstroke origin movie and got director Gareth Evans involved.

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