What was your split like?
Oh, that’s a good question. I mean, I messed around with all different stuff. I don’t know what I did when, in terms of push-pull days, but it was mostly five days a week during the main bulking phase. I gained a considerable amount of weight. And then when we got closer to the shooting of the thing, we started to do two-a-days. I added some boxing and cardio, and that helped me shed some of the fat that came on. I wasn’t trying to shed all of it because like I said, I needed a fuller physique. We were trying to match Sly’s body as closely as we could. But me and Peter Farrelly spoke at length about this. Then once we added the boxing in, I ended up shedding a little bit of the fat and really starting to take the shape.
At your heaviest, how much do you think you put on?
Oh man, it’s hard to say. And it wasn’t all muscle, but somewhere around 40 pounds. It’s hard to encapsulate it, but it was a day in, day out thing. It was a lifestyle shift and it was a priority in my life for a great deal of time.
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I mean, you played baseball for Baruch College and surely the training for that must not have been as intense.
No, no, it wasn’t. I mean, I had some training experience from baseball, but you don’t need a certain type of physique necessarily for that sport. But for this, it was definitely different. It definitely tested me in more ways than one.
What’s your relationship with Dior Sauvage?
I first discovered it when I was a bit younger in a mall in my hometown and I was like, “Man, this is a great scent.”
How have your grooming habits changed over the years? I know you’re still fairly young.
I’ve had some makeup artists on some of these projects suggest I moisturize often. So I said, “Okay, I’ll try to focus on that.”
Don’t forget your sunscreen, dude.
And that. I can’t believe I left out sunscreen. Yes, yes. Absolutely.
You’ve spent so much time transforming your body and appearance to play these other people. What’s it take for you to feel like yourself again?
In this instance, shedding some of that weight because I really couldn’t—and didn’t really want to—continue eating like that. You start to see a little bit more of yourself in the mirror and just once you pour so much of yourself into the thing, when it’s over, there’s a bit of a grieving process I’d say, but you leave it behind and it kind of fades a bit.
