- [Interviewer] Hey Ross, open up.
- Hey, you guys are here to see
the gym and the fridge, right?
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Come on.
- [Interviewer] All right Ross, we're here to see your gym
and check out your fridge.
You ready? Let's go.
- So, this is the gym.
This is where I live a lot of the week.
- [Interviewer] Have you always been into fitness?
- Yeah, I played sports when I was a kid
but, honestly, it wasn't until,
oh I gotta do reps.
It wasn't until I moved to Ohio State,
because I went to the college there for one year.
And a couple of my roommates were body builders.
So they really got me into like drinking protein shakes
and lifting four five times a week,
and lifting heavy.
So, that was the beginning, that was when I was like 18.
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- [Interviewer] How did you get in shape
to play a high schooler on 13 Reasons Why?
- For 13 Reasons, I actually had to do the opposite,
because I play a high schooler, I can't be like too built.
I usually try to keep it pretty slim.
I do more of those high-intensity interval training
workouts to stay lean.
- [Interviewer] Who do you train with?
When I'm shooting 13,
I work out with a couple of my castmates.
Especially like Justin Prentice and Timothy Granaderos,
we all like to stay in pretty good shape
and we push each other
and we're actually living together this season
so we're pushing each other inside and outside the gym.
- [Interviewer] Are you trying to bulk up now?
- Oh yeah, yeah. I mean, especially 'cause I'm starting
to do more action, especially with Shazam
and starting to move out of high school
I can actually start to build a little bit more.
'Cause I would say, if they didn't make me
wear as many sweaters on 13
I wouldn't look as much like a high schooler.
- [Interviewer] What about working out
on P.S. I Still Love You?
- On P.S. I Love You there was,
or it was actually the third one
we were shooting in New York,
I actually worked out really hard prior to the New York trip
so that I could go to New York and just eat.
It really is a balance for me 'cause I'm such a foodie.
So, if I'm going to somewhere where I know it's good food
I'll prep my body (laughs).
- [Interviewer] How do you stay in shape on the road?
- When I'm traveling,
it really depends on the gym of the hotel
or if there's a gym nearby.
If there's not, I usually just do a lot of like
body weight training in the room.
So I'll do like a lot of body squats, a lot of pushups.
Even though I hate cardio, I'll sometimes go for a jog.
So it really depends where I'm at.
Sometimes the shooting schedule,
when you're shooting 14 hours a day,
it's hard to get in the gym.
I'm not The Rock so I can't, I can't work out like him.
- [Interviewer] How often do you work out?
- I'd say between 3 and 5.
5 if I have nothing else better to do.
4 if I'm trying to stay in pretty good shape.
3 if I'm lazy.
- [Interviewer] What's an intense workout for you?
- Oh, intense workout for me is anything that's like
high-intensity interval training.
'Cause I don't like cardio, so I usually like
the traditional 8 to ten reps, 4 sets sort of thing.
But high-intensity interval training kills me.
- [Interviewer] What do you listen to when you work out?
- I listen to a lot of 90s rock.
Like a lot of Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana.
I listen to some Linkin Park, even that's not 90s but.
Some electronic music, depending on what I'm doing.
Cardio is usually for deep house.
- [Interviewer] What are your fitness goals?
- So my fitness goals right now
I'm trying to get more lean
so I'm doing lighter weight higher reps
just because I've been
eating more than I'd like to the last couple months.
I've been on break so.
So yeah, I'm just trying to drop
some of that fat and get more toned
and then I'll start building again, I think.
- [Interviewer] Do you do any group fitness classes?
- Yeah, I'll do some spin classes sometimes.
That cardio isn't as bad as running
so and also my knees are a little bit weak
from playing sports younger
so I find that cycling is really good for non-impact.
- [Interviewer] Do you have any scars?
- I do, but they're not really interesting stories.
I had my appendix taken out.
I got one on my abs and one on my belly button.
That's really boring, but that's all I got.
- [Interviewer] What about tats?
- Nope, been thinking about getting one but
it just adds more time in the makeup trailer
and I would prefer not to show up
30 minutes earlier than I have to
to cover up the tattoo (laughs).
- [Interviewer] How do you keep your mind fit?
- I'm also picking up new hobbies, constantly.
Like I just love to learn new things.
There's kind of a rush in learning something
that you know nothing about.
And as an artist, they say that
you always want to reinvent yourself as an artist.
So that kind of keeps the new part of the brain growing.
All right, well that's my gym guys.
You've seen all that there is to see
but I think you wanna check out the fridge too.
So, that's this way.
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Hey so this is my fridge, the outside and
the inside.
- [Interviewer] What are those pieces of paper
on your fridge?
- So yeah, when I was prepping for Shazam
I met with Thomas DeLauer, who's my nutritionist,
and he gave me this crazy
diet plan where every day there's like a non-fasting day,
there's a fasting day, there's like a no-carb day.
- [Interviewer] So I see you have some supplements there.
- Yes, so the supplements are great,
especially when I'm on keto,
to give me the vitamins that I don't really get
or the ones I'm missing out on.
And then there's a lot of them that I just take,
like fish oil and glucosamine for my joints,
some D3 for like deep sleep.
I take like 15 vitamins a day, it's kinda crazy.
- [Interviewer] Do you have any fridge essentials?
- So because I travel a lot,
there's like a few things that I put in my fridge
that I need pretty much everywhere I go.
The big one is the apple cider vinegar and lemon
'cause I do that drink every morning.
It's really good for your metabolism,
really good for your gut.
Fruits since I'm not training for anything specific.
I like to have some sugar and it's not like processed sugar.
So I'll have like watermelon, blueberries, pears, all that.
- [Interviewer] What does your diet consist of?
- So my diet usually consists of
honestly, just I keep it really balanced.
I usually don't eat breakfast.
I usually fast until about 1 or 2:00 p.m.
But when I do eat and I'm not on keto
or intermittent fasting, I'll have your complex carbs,
like potatoes and all of that.
I'll have some brown rice
depending on if I worked out or not.
I'm a big steak guy, I like a lot of red meat.
I know it's not the best for you,
it's hard on your digestion.
But, again, I'm a foodie so I like to do that.
And then just leafy greens,
just stuff that'll help with fiber and all.
- [Interviewer] Do you cook?
- My signature dish I would say,
truly signature is my mom's Malaysian curry.
So it's a recipe that's passed down
from generation to generation
my mom taught me about 3 or 4 years ago.
And it's just like chicken and green beans
and some extra secret ingredients that I can't tell you.
- [Interviewer] Damn, that's a lot of sauce.
- So, sauces and condiments are my guilty pleasure.
Obviously, I have a lot of them.
'Cause they will give flavor to food
that's otherwise flavorless.
The unfortunate part is that
a lot of them have a lot of sugars you gotta be careful.
But hot sauces like, I mean,
this is the go to, just old Louisiana.
Another hot sauce that I love is like this,
there's this restaurant up in San Fran where we shoot
called Soul Food in San Rafael,
best hot sauce ever.
You can it on like a shoe and tastes great.
- What do you eat on a cheat day?
- Cheat day is always dedicated, I shouldn't say always,
mostly dedicated to ramen.
That is a favorite.
Pizza, pasta, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream,
the good stuff.
- [Interviewer] What are you gonna eat tonight?
- So yeah, I just finished working out
so I'm gonna have my post-workout meal.
But it's also kinda dinner time
so I'll probably make like a
maybe like a little stir fry,
cook up some steak, some peppers,
put on some lemon.
Yeah, I'll chop the meats up.
- [Interviewer] All right,
time for some rapid fire questions.
7:00 a.m. workout or 7:00 p.m. workout?
- Oh God, I always do the afternoon ones.
If I had to choose, 7:00 a.m.
- [Interviewer] Squat or deadlift?
- Deadlift.
- [Interviewer] Favorite song on your playlist?
- Money in the Grave, Drake.
- [Interviewer] Crossfit, yay or nay?
- No.
- [Interviewer] Pull-ups or chin-ups?
(Ross groaning)
- Pull-ups.
No, chin-ups (laughs).
- [Interviewer] Kettlebells or dumbbells?
- Kettlebells.
- [Interviewer] Run on a treadmill or the great outdoors?
- Treadmill.
- [Interviewer] Cardio or weights?
- Uh, weights.
- [Interviewer] Big legs or big arms?
- Arms.
These legs need to fit in jeans.
- [Interviewer] Which would you rather be:
jacked, ripped, swole, or cut?
- Ripped?
Yeah, dude you're ripped.
That sounds right.
- [Interviewer] If you had to work out with anyone,
dead or alive, who would it be?
- Mark Wahlberg, he just seems
like he goes for it in the gym
and he seems like he would be a supportive gym partner.
All right, I am done chopping the meats.
But I'm not gonna show you my secret recipe
so if you could kindly
leave.
Kindly.