- [Interviewer] Hey, Zack, it's Men's Health.
- Men's Health, right?
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You guys wanna see my gym and my fridge.
Come on, come check it out.
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All right, you can see the fridge.
It's right over here.
- [Interviewer] All right, let's take a look inside.
- So glorious refrigerator.
This is where I keep my food.
- [Interviewer] What staples do you keep stocked
in your fridge?
- So the staples, the day to day,
egg whites, steak, chicken and broccoli.
Asparagus, there's normally an apple, green or red.
Everybody loves mango especially in California.
Every now and then though some food for the kids
like this baked ziti will sneak in.
I don't get to eat that.
- [Interviewer] What would we never see in your fridge?
- Olives.
I'm not a huge fan of olives.
I like olive oil.
Love it.
I love olive trees.
See those beautiful trees I have?
But olives themselves, just not.
- [Interviewer] How has your diet changed over the years?
- You can't out-train a bad diet.
We all have bad eating habits in our 20s and 30s
'cause our metabolisms are like blast furnaces
so we can get away with murder.
As you get a little bit older,
you start to become self-aware.
Eventually, that shit's gonna stick.
My trainer will make a menu for me.
Chicken and broccoli.
Then dinner is steak, broccoli and asparagus.
What a surprise.
- [Interviewer] What do you normally have for breakfast?
- My breakfast is a lot of egg whites.
I am very familiar and friend of egg whites.
I don't love 'em but I do eat 'em quite a bit.
Right now, I'm on a cycle with egg whites and one egg.
They're not quite as white, egg white as normal.
I get some fruit.
I get mango for breakfast with my frittata
and then every now and then I'll have a little oatmeal
so I'll look and be like, oatmeal.
It's like kind of glorious when the oatmeal shows up.
- [Interviewer] What's your snack strategy?
- Now, I get a snack which is normally an apple,
green or red.
Where I am right now, I get one of these
then at like 10 o'clock in the morning, I get two of them.
So it's a real huge treat for me.
- [Interviewer] You're very dedicated to your meal plan
but do you have any cheat days?
- Broccoli and chicken every day, yeah right
because my wife will take me to a beautiful restaurant
and she's like, "if you don't eat something here,
I will murder you" and then I'm looking for a pasta.
I'm looking for carbonara really in the end.
Carbonara addict.
Well, I've been chasing the dragon on carbonara
since I was in Rome shooting a commercial.
Had a carbonara, changed my life
and I've been trying ever since to duplicate that.
It could be that I've romanticized it in my mind
and the carbonara wasn't as good as I imagined
but yeah, it's definitely, it's carbonara.
- [Interviewer] Do you like spicy food?
- I do like spicy food, Mexican food, tacos.
My heat level's pretty high,
higher than the rest of the crew.
I'll cut up a jalapeno and put it in an omelet
and everyone's like, "whoa, what did you ruin this"
and I'll be like, what do you mean?
It's amazing.
- [Interviewer] Do you drink coffee?
- I do love coffee.
For breakfast, it has to be Peet's, Major Dickason's
and we've never got off that.
We've been on it for like 10 years.
Every time I try and switch it up,
my wife's like, "whoa, whoa, what's up with the coffee?"
Well, I just thought.
No.
No, no, no.
- [Interviewer] What food do you hate?
- Oh, hate that I like it so much maybe is ice cream,
coffee ice cream, any kind of good coffee ice cream.
I'll always get an affogato,
some vanilla ice cream and espresso.
That's pretty much my go-to apres meal, apres meal?
Is that how you say that?
Maybe.
- [Interviewer] Do you ever cook?
- I cook breakfast but it's for the kids.
Right now, we're in a crepe mode.
My daughter wants a crepe pretty much every day
so I have to make crepes
and I can flip 'em in the pan which is pretty sweet.
Sometimes they go on the floor, the dogs eat 'em.
Today, I did make waffles with a little whipped cream.
School.
- [Interviewer] Do you take any supplements?
- Of course I take some D, I take some vitamin C.
I take a little bit of fish oil.
I do like these immunity boosts on set.
It's a real huge thing
like at our crafty there's a bunch of these immunities.
That's elderberry but so much ginger.
You just got gingered right out of town on that one
which is great.
- [Interviewer] How's the crafty table
on one of your film sets?
- Debbie and I try and have healthy snacks
as much as we can.
We try not to have like soda.
There's a little bit in a stash somewhere if people have it
just 'cause they need it.
We do our best.
- [Interviewer] Do you ever follow the diets
of any of your superhero stars?
- Well, I like to train with the actors.
When we do a movie, I like to get on whatever they're doing
so I understand how intense what they're going through is.
It's always been an interesting journey
like a lot of times, they'll go on a calorie restriction
to really kinda cut.
I've made them mad but in the end, they look good on film
so that's really the most important part of it.
A lot of times, because I'm directing a movie,
you don't want me like passing out in the middle of the,
so I try not to go too hard that way
but when I'm off like right now we're in editorial
so I try to hit it kinda hard.
- [Interviewer] Thanks for showing us your fridge.
Should we hit it hard to the gym?
- Look, there's Alessandro.
We call it the black box gym.
I've been training in here for about what, what,
three years? - Three years.
- About three years.
- [Interviewer] Wow, looks like a movie set in here.
- The inside where we made it look like aged
and kind of like the inside of an old French basement.
- [Interviewer] What's your typical workout routine?
- Today, I'm in here like today's chest
so it's high rep chest, it's bench, incline,
it's cable crossover gotta be one day.
The next day, back, same thing, high reps,
15 reps back to back.
This is our first week on it
so we're on this for three weeks.
- [Interviewer] Does your exercise routine change
when you're in production?
- Yeah, that's always hard.
I mean, on the movies, we don't train as much,
maybe one day a week, mostly weekends
but when I'm off of the shooting schedule,
every morning, we're just down here doing it.
- [Interviewer] What's your favorite exercise?
- Anything for biceps and triceps.
I'm an arms person.
I like arm workout.
On my birthday, I normally like to train arms
as a gift to myself.
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- [Interviewer] What's your least favorite exercise?
- Sometimes when I squat,
I tweak my back so it makes me nervous
but you gotta squat so it kinda is what it is.
- [Interviewer] What keeps you motivated?
- The thing that keeps me mostly motivated
is probably just that I'm old, I'm an old fart
and so you gotta train.
Making movies is pretty taxing.
I do a lot of handheld
so those are the things that motivate me.
- [Interviewer] What do you consider an intense workout?
- Literally there's an aspect of our training program
called intense, as heavy as you can do four reps
and then strip the weight without
and then do six right on top of it
and so it is intense and we did no rest.
You just go choom, choom, choom, choom, choom, choom.
At the end, Alessandro's always like, "that was intense"
and that's how I know that it was intense.
- [Interviewer] What's your morning routine?
- Really, my morning, morning routine
is I get up early around 4:35
and then I kind of have a quiet house for a little while
and then I cook breakfast, take the kids to school
and then come train
and then every now and then I have to train
before I take the kids to school
so then it requires me to get up before I cook breakfast
so that's when it's an early, early.
5:30 in the morning's my least favorite time to workout.
If it was up to me, I would train like 11,
trained at my office.
I had an office gym over at Warner Bros.
and there we trained like at 11.
It was like a lunchtime workout and it was great.
It's 'cause I felt awake and ready
and sometimes clear your head in the middle of the day
and it really worked great for that.
- [Interviewer] Do you love working out?
- I found a lot of camaraderie in the gym
and I've found a lot of like family and the ritual,
those are the things I really love about working out.
You get some result from it and that's always good too.
- [Interviewer] Which one of your actors
would you love to work out with?
- I trained with Momoa quite a bit when we were in England
'cause he was always in this gym that that we built.
He was in there quite a bit so
and Henry I trained with a little bit but not as much.
So be fun to train with Henry.
- [Interviewer] What other types of training do you do?
- I played badminton and I played pickleball.
We built a pickleball court upstairs.
We've been hitting the pickleball around which is fun
and you can actually get a pretty good sweat on
playing pickleball.
You might not believe it but it's true.
And badminton I play is legit hard.
- [Interviewer] Hope your badminton training
has prepared you for our rapid fire questions.
- Rapid fire, let's go.
- [Interviewer] Workout time, seven AM or seven PM?
- Seven AM.
- [Interviewer] Squat or deadlift?
- Ooh, both.
- [Interviewer] Favorite song on your workout playlist?
- Jose Feliciano, California Dreamin'.
- [Interviewer] CrossFit, yay or nay?
- Nay.
- [Interviewer] Pull-ups or chin-ups?
- Pull-ups.
- [Interviewer] Dumbbells or kettlebells?
- Dumbbells.
- [Interviewer] Run on the treadmill
or in the great outdoors?
- Don't really run.
- [Interviewer] Cardio or weights?
- Weights.
- [Interviewer] Big legs or big arms?
- Big legs probably.
- [Interviewer] Biggest compliment,
jacked, ripped, swole or cut?
- Don't say ripped 'cause Alessandro would say
"maybe you're okay for the beach but not ripped."
- [Interviewer] If you could work out
with anyone in the world, dead or alive, who would it be?
- Oh, Arnold or Serge Nubret maybe.
All right, guys, that was fun.
I'm actually gonna finish my workout
so I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
I'm sorry but it is what it is.
Cheers.
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