(soft knock)
- [Interviewer] Hey, Jay
we're here to see your gym and fridge.
(soft dinging tones)
- Men's Health! What's going on, man?
You know what, I usually don't do this.
I usually don't let random white folks
in my house like this but come on, you know.
Y'all can come in.
Come on.
(bright music)
- I do comedy, sir.
I make a room full of people laugh.
Well, I'm Will Smith.
Whoa!
All right!
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- [Interviewer] Let's go check out your fridge.
- All right guys (clapping).
Y'all know the deal.
Check out my fridge!
- [Interviewer] What do you always have in your fridge?
- I always like to have my watermelon juice,
you know, that's good.
Ginger juice!
This has been in here since pre pandemic.
(dramatic tones)
So this at this point this is ginger alcohol.
(tense dramatic tones)
You know, so check this out.
We got the almond milk, you gotta do that.
Grapefruit juice have to do that.
Grapefruit juice is really healthy, I like that.
Pineapple, orange and banana.
You have to mix this up.
Make a little healthy cocktail, you know, a mocktail.
That's what you're doing pretty much all right.
While we're on the subject of juice,
the ultimate juice for me (vocalizing).
That's right.
I'm all about that healthy life
but I'm all about getting lit and turnt up.
My favorite is Red Grapefruit
and if you cross these two together, whoa!
But just a splash is fine, you know.
Have a little Grapefruit in your life.
(mumbles)
I have a lot of juice because I'm a sweaty guy
so I'm always sweating out my liquids.
So I have to replenish myself constantly and watch this.
Boom!
Look at all this!
Fresh produce that I have in here
that will in turn to juice.
It's gonna turn into juice.
Okay, I hear what you,
I hear what you're saying.
The refrigerator basically said close the damn door.
Like your grandfather,
"Close that gaddamn door around here."
Oh, y'all don't know about that.
Okay.
All right.
- [Interviewer] What goes into your smoothie?
- I normally do it with beets,
an apple,
I'll take a lime or lemon.
Put it all in this cup right here
so we gonna get the juicing.
(juicer whirring)
That's right, juice that!
Oh yeah, there you go!
Yay!
There we go, we making juice!
It ain't no secret
that quarantine definitely let everybody
get a little bit loose. (juicer whirring)
I had a lot of fried food over the pandemic.
I gained some weight.
Now, thank you to me setting up my own gym system
and me juicing that I dropped 25 pounds.
Um, look at that beautiful juice.
Finally, you see that?
Let me get a little sip.
(slurping noise)
Oh, that's delicious.
- [Interviewer] What does your diet consist of?
- Pretty much the same thing after I left SNL.
So, you know with SNL's crazy schedule
it's kinda hard to eat healthy
just because of the choices that are available late night.
Pretty much used to do protein and vegetables.
Like I'll do baked chicken.
I'll do fish.
Sometimes I'll have some steak.
I know that's red meat, but it'd be good.
Now, some days you have a cheat day.
I'll have a cheat day like every two weeks.
I'm not Dwayne Johnson.
I don't do that, you know.
He really goes off and he eats 18 pizzas.
How many people are you?
How do you eat all of this?
All in those, you know,
have a nice burger, you know what I mean?
Get some fries, whatever
but making sure that I get back on track afterwards.
That's a timeshare you know,
hey baby, enjoy while we're here
'cause we ain't gonna stay here, you know what I mean?
Your body is like an engine.
whatever you put into it (chuckles).
Of course y'all know this.
This is Men's,
what am I telling y'all?
Keep it healthy.
(clapping) yes.
- [Interviewer] What will we never see in your fridge?
- I'm really not a big mushroom guy.
I don't like the consistency, they're slimy.
They go down your throat sadly.
I don't like it.
You'll probably never see like Arby's anything in here.
Look, if we do business in the future Arby's, its business.
But long as y'all know
that there will never be any of those roast beef sandwiches
that Ving Rhames narrates in here.
" We have the meats."
Not for my frigerator you don't!
- [Interviewer] What's your comfort food?
- You know what?
I'll tell you what my comfort food is.
Almonds.
All right?
I would just be sitting there chomping.
If I don't eat,
I have like a handful of almonds or something
just to sustain me.
- [Interviewer] Do you switch up your diet for roles?
- Yes, I do!
All My Life that I did with Harry Shum Jr, Jessica Rothe,
this is the lot of people in this movie, right?
I was in New Orleans.
So my diet was,
ah-ah
it was no diet, okay?
It was catfish, pub crawls with lobster po'boy
and
(sighs)
you ever had a flashback
to like a real good plate of food
and you just tasted it for us.
That's what just happened.
That's why I phased out for a second there.
So my diet for that movie was different
because I was in New Orleans.
Meanwhile, this one I just shot with Christina Milian,
I totally changed my diet for it because I was on the beach.
I was like, I might have to take my shirt off.
I gotta make sure that my breasts ain't drooping.
I ain't trying to have nobody saying I got a dad bod
because I don't even got kids yet.
See that's disrespectful.
So I just told him to change it up and I got healthy.
- [Interviewer] All right, are you ready to work out?
(bright music)
- Let's head to the gym?
(upbeat music)
Welcome to Pharaoh Gym.
Or as I like to call it, the (mumbles)
cause we die in here and we come back to life baby.
- [Interviewer] How often do you work out?
- About five times a week.
- [Interviewer] When did you start your fitness journey
and what inspired it?
- Yeah, I was a fat kid, you know
so I really didn't have a choice.
I've been on this kick for about 16 years
and I was fat for like 17 of them.
One more year and I will have matched
the amount of time I was fat
with the amount of time I was kind of in shape.
So that's kind of dope.
- [Interviewer] What's your favorite exercise?
- Pull ups are one of my favorites to do.
Definitely help curve your upper body to the maximum
and when I was younger,
eighth grade, seventh grade,
I couldn't even do one.
- [Interviewer] Are there any other exercises you like?
- I like Cleans.
And it make your back,
make your back looks so defined
and it works on your core.
Helps your posture
and all of these muscles right here,
these are the ones that pop through your shirt,
you know what I mean?
- [Interviewer] What exercises do you hate?
- Squats.
I hate squats.
My neck is so long and all the weight right here,
It just hurts so bad for me.
Squat, I like the result
but I hate having to go like this.
And I hate,
I'd rather take my weights
and do it like this and come up with it,
you know what I mean?
- [Interviewer] What does a week of training
look like for you?
- So I like to get up,
like get on the treadmill first.
Do about four miles.
I just alternate back from legs to chest and to arms
and just work it on.
In like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
but I just interchange my stuff.
The more confused you're muscles are, the faster you go.
- [Interviewer] What's your favorite part of working out?
- The results.
There's nothing better than being exhausted and fatigue
and you can't go anymore
and then couple of weeks later,
you see all that stuff pop out.
You're just, aww!
It feels good.
- [Interviewer] Do you use any special equipment?
- I mean the weight band
is definitely something specialized that I use.
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(whirring noise) (feet stomping)
- [Interviewer] What are your fitness goals?
I wanna be as ripped as I can,
for as long as I have my mind, I would say that.
- [Interviewer] How do you keep your mind fit?
- Meditating, praying, talking to my family,
talking to my grandmother of course.
She has put up with Jay Pharaoh shenanigans my whole life.
When I say Jay Pharaoh shenanigans I mean,
allowing me to be myself at her house.
I never felt like I had to be restricted.
She'll see me on television
and she'll say,
I just saw you for a few minutes
but it was nice to see you, you know.
My grandmother is the bomb.
I love my grandma.
- [Interviewer] What kind of music do you listen to
when you work out?
- Oh my gosh!
300 Spartan music.
I'm all about Epic.
You come to my gym, you ain't gonna hear
Drake playing all the time.
I've no disrespect, I love Drake's music
but when I come in here,
I'm trying to be a warrior.
So I'll listen to warrior music to motivate me.
Like Rick Ross, motivation music one-on-one.
Don't eat the lemon pepper wings.
- You gotta always satisfy your sweet.
(chuckles)
- [Interviewer] How does working out
help you as a performer?
- Well, working out puts your mind in a structured state
and being a performer, you have to be so calculated.
Lifting weights just adds to that.
Keeping your body together just adds to the mental focus.
It's adds to being able to kill at any time.
- [Interviewer] Do you have any tattoos?
- I haven't gotten any tattoos yet.
I just rather not have any.
Not saying I won't get one, one day.
I just haven't gotten to yet.
You know, and if I do get one
it would probably be very small,
in a place that can be covered up quickly and easily.
I like tattoos.
All the girls with tattoos, holla.
Cardi B, what up?
Okkrr!
Yeah, Okkrr! (chuckles)
I like all of them tattoos.
- All right time for Rapid Fire questions.
Work out time,
7:00 am or 7:00 am?
- That's 12 pm.
- [Interviewer] Squat or deadlift?
- Deadlift.
- [Interviewer] Favorite song on playlist?
- 300 Soundtrack, so Marshall The Greeks.
- [Interviewer] CrossFit, yay or nay?
- Nay.
- Pull ups or chin ups?
- Pull ups.
- [Interviewer] Dumbbells or kettlebells?
- Dumbbells.
- [Interviewer] Run on the treadmill or the great outdoors?
- Treadmill.
- [Interviewer] Cardio or weights?
- Both.
- [Interviewer] Big legs or big arms?
- Both.
- [Interviewer] Biggest compliment,
jacked, ripped, cut, or swole?
- I wanna have your kids?
- [Interviewer] If you could work out with anyone
in the world, dead or alive, who would it be?
- It'd be the Rock Jabroni
because the Rock, the Rock lives.
He does what he does.
He eats 12 pizzas, comes back, plays the SmackDown.
He just smell what Men's Health is cooking.
All right now y'all get out.
'Cause its the last time I'm doing
the Rock impression for free.
Get out.
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