Joe Manganiello is one of the few actors who’s managed to play supporting antagonists in both Marvel and DC movies. Recently, folks saw him debut as Deathstroke in the post-credits scene of Justice League, a role that he’ll hopefully follow up in his own solo film from director Gareth Evans. For his Marvel work, however, we have to rewind back to 2002 when he played Peter Parker’s high school nemesis Flash Thompson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man.

While speaking with Kevin Smith for IMDb at San Diego Comic-Con, Manganiello reminisced about his part in the wall-crawler’s debut cinematic outing, revealing that it was his first ever movie role. The actor revealed that he got the job by screen testing opposite James Franco, who went on to play Harry Osborn but at this point was auditioning for the title role.

“[Spider-Man] was my first role. When I moved to La,...