You look good.
Thank you, you do too.
Appreciate it.
So you were backstage.
You were probably getting all ready
and doing push-ups and stuff.
But I showed some of your body of work out here.
I don't know if you saw it.
Yeah.
Some throwbacks?
Yeah.
Just some, yeah, some body of work that the people liked.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
OK.
Yup.
That was pre-Black Panther.
Uh-huh.
I was trying to get in shape.
Yup.
OK.
Tropical vacation, switching it up.
Yeah, yeah.
Out in the Bahamas.
Yup.
There.
So it basically doesn't matter what movie you do?
You're just in good shape all the time?
I'm just trying to stay in shape for as long as I can.
And to get paid to do it--
why not, right?
Yeah.
But I mean, how much in advance before Black Panther
did you know that?
And did they ask you to get in that kind of shape?
Because you're already in good shape.
Yeah.
I was on the press tour for Creed.
Right.
And Ryan call me up it was like-- aye,
we're about to go shoot this other movie.
Do you want to do it?
And I was like-- cool, let's go have some fun.
And then that was literally it.
And from that moment on, I just decided
to dedicate everything to getting in shape
and becoming Erik Killmonger.
I read you didn't really get to have a social life
because you're drinking a gallon and a half of water--
so you have to pee all the time.
Do you know how often you have to use the bathroom?
Yeah, that's not fun.
Especially in the middle of night.
You're trying to sleep, you got to wake up, use the bathroom.
You're like, oh my god, I'm just going to hold it.
And then it just doesn't quite work out.
Right.
Yeah.
And then you just had to eat cleanly?
And then you had to like-- just how many hours a day
to work out?
We didn't really go by hours but like session.
So I will work out two to three times a day.
Eat six times a day.
And just-- I mean it's hard to go out to a club or party
when you're like-- oh wait, meal prep.
We got to go like pop this thing in the microwave and eat food.
So it's tough to socialize when you've
got to get in shape like that.
Yeah, and to work out three or four times a day too.
It is.
So as soon as I leave here, I'm going to the gym.
Really?
Yeah.
Why?
What are you doing next?
Creed 2.
You're doing Creed 2?
Yeah, yeah.
That's fantastic.
Congratulations.
Thank you, thank you,
Oh, that's great.
So in the process of getting back in shape
and getting that together.
So we start shooting that in April.
So it will be dope.
Don't you want to just play a character-- you lay on the sofa
and do nothing at all?
You just like eat pizza and just hangout?
Yeah, soon.
Like that you gain weight and that you're just lazy?
Just become method and just sit there with the belly?
Yeah.
Six pack to a keg?
Yeah.
I'ma work on that.
Try to get that.
You're on the cover.
You're doing so well.
I'm so proud of you and so happy for you.
And you're on the cover of Vanity Fair, right here--
with a bunch big shots.
That was a lot of fun.
Yeah.
That's a nice group to be included in.
Krista Smith.
Annie Leibovitz, she's a legend.
She's amazing to shoot with.
Yeah, she is.
Yeah, that was a fun shoot.
Yeah.
I was in it and a lot of people didn't see it but--
What happened?
Well, I don't know.
There I am under--
Ah, there.
Yeah.
[LAUGHING]
They didn't give you the prime real estate spot.
No.
They just kinda--
No.
Kind of stuck you down there.
No, I was--
OK.
Yeah, I was behind y'all for a minute and I was like-- no,
I'll come under here.
OK, OK, OK, OK.
Yeah.
I like it.
You're just kind of like peeking out there.
Yeah, yeah.
Oprah knew, she knew.
Yes, she definitely knew.
She knew I was there.
So I read that you're--
because the last time you were here,
you were talking that your folks are here.
Yup.
And you were all living together.
And thank you for the vacuum.
Oh!
They loved it.
Yes?
All the cleaning supplies--
Yeah.
And stuff like that for the house.
Kind of my first home starter kit in a way.
Yes.
Yeah, you helped me out a lot with that.
You need a vacuum cleaner.
Vacuum cleaner--
It's an adult purchase-- that and a ladder.
That's when you know you're an adult--
That's it.
When you have a ladder and a vacuum.
And irons.
And an iron, yes.
Do you know how to iron?
I love ironing.
Do you?
I do.
Wow.
Because you have to do it right-- otherwise
you're making more creases.
More wrinkles.
Yes.
Yeah, but it's something therapeutic
about seeing all these wrinkles and just--
it's like my mom with washing dishes.
She says there's something so soothing about washing dishes.
And I said-- OK, cool, whatever.
I agree.
I feel the same about washing and drying dishes.
I like to do it by hand and I love vacuuming.
OK.
There's something really, to me, comforting about vacuuming.
Anyway.
That's like me and ironing.
It's OK.
Odd jobs.
We could live together.
We could definitely live together.
Yeah.
But speaking of that-- so you're living with them now?
Are you going to move out at some point?
Because you should.
Immediately.
Yeah.
Yes, yes-- as soon as I can.
I love my parents, but we have a roommate relationship right now
which is interesting, you know?
You get home cooked meals but then
you also have random trips to the kitchen
in the middle of the night.
And just the random run-ins that just
might be a little uncomfortable from time to time.
Naked?
Sometimes shirtless, maybe a little naked.
A little naked?
Maybe a little naked.
Your mom or you?
Who's naked?
[LAUGHTER]
Me.
OK, all right.
Oh man, that was a mental picture.
Oh man, ugh!
Oh, dang.
She is dangerous, oh.
[LAUGHING]
I don't know.
You said naked and then you have to elaborate.
I have to specify.
You're right, yes.
OK, yeah.
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