00:00Man, I thought this interview was gonna be
00:03about how good I eat,
00:04and I have literally destroyed my credibility.
00:08What can I say?
00:09You know, I love food.
00:10I'm a foodie.
00:11I am a foodie.
00:11♪♪
00:17Hello, I'm Lazzalonzo.
00:18I play Mother's Milk on Amazon Prime's The Boys,
00:21and today I'm gonna tell you what my diet looks like.
00:24I was heavy on caloric surplus
00:28when I first started this show.
00:30Seasons one and two, I wanted to look like the comic.
00:34Season three, we shot during and after COVID,
00:38and I went from looking like the comic
00:40to looking like a very inflated version of the comic.
00:44Uber eating every day, eating a lot of pizza,
00:47eating a lot of burgers.
00:48I discovered Toronto's best pizzas and burgers,
00:52and I put on close to 40 pounds.
00:54It didn't hit me until I saw the promotional posters
00:59for season three, and I saw my face,
01:01and I was like, who the heck is that?
01:03And I actually asked Amazon if they had added weight to me.
01:07I didn't realize how big I had gotten.
01:09For a guy that's six feet with shoes on,
01:12I was pushing 250, and it was a lot of weight,
01:15and it wasn't healthy.
01:16Season four came around.
01:17I wanted to do something real different.
01:19I always meet with Kripke at the top of the season,
01:21and he told me, he said,
01:22this season, mother's milk is gonna go
01:24through a big transition.
01:26So I wanted to, in his OCD fashion,
01:30depict that and show that visibly.
01:32So I went into an extreme calorie reduction.
01:34I shaved because now he reports directly
01:37to the White House.
01:38This guy is back into his regimented military,
01:43you know, way of running things,
01:45and you'll see that as the season progresses.
01:47An average day for me eating is I wake up in the morning.
01:50I usually work out pretty early.
01:51I start off bouncing on a trampoline
01:54just to get everything going.
01:56I have a infrared sauna that I always start
01:59every morning with, and a glass of water
02:01with electrolytes, just to rehydrate my body.
02:05Then I make myself breakfast.
02:06I'll have either a green tea, a matcha latte,
02:09which is my favorite, or a coffee.
02:12And I'll have some egg whites,
02:13and I'll have some rice, and I'll have some
02:16and I'll have some rice.
02:17It's kinda like oatmeal, but it's made out of rice.
02:20That gives me my carbs.
02:21I try to stay away from oats.
02:22And then I go to the gym, and I work out with my trainer.
02:25That's pretty much every day.
02:28My workout consists primarily of weights.
02:31Once I start getting closer to the show,
02:34I change it, and I add in high-intensity interval training.
02:38I wanna be lean, I wanna be hard,
02:41I want my face and my jawline to be chiseled.
02:44And still, they throw some weights in there as well,
02:46but I add that in just to give that character
02:48the look that I'm looking for on camera.
02:53I've done prep and diet for every character that I play.
02:56When I played my character in Jumping the Broom,
02:58I was around 195.
03:00They didn't feel I looked leading man enough.
03:02I looked more like an action star, so I had to drop weight.
03:05When I prepared for Fast and Furious,
03:07I put on lean muscle for that.
03:09I did mostly calisthenics for that.
03:12When I prepared for Avatar, also,
03:14I did a lot of calisthenics to look as lean as possible,
03:17because obviously that would translate into the character
03:20when they digitize it.
03:21For Mother's Milk, I put on weight, probably 15 pounds.
03:25I wish I could say a solid muscle,
03:26but there was some donuts, some pizza,
03:29you know, and some burger weight added in there as well.
03:31Season three, I was Mother's Buttermilk,
03:34and I had to change that.
03:37Working on set is tough, I mean, especially on our show.
03:39Eric Ricci is a perfectionist.
03:42That means we're working 14, 15 hour days.
03:46We're doing every single camera angle.
03:48This guy doesn't mess around,
03:50but the proof is in the pudding.
03:53But it's tough to work out and eat healthy
03:57during production.
03:58So I try my best to eat as healthy as possible,
04:01because once I rap, I don't have the energy to work out.
04:04Tomer, who plays Frenchie, he thinks he knows everything.
04:07He thinks he is the oracle of literally any subject,
04:11and nine out of 10 times, he's wrong.
04:14He'll sit there and try to tell me
04:16why you should be eating more carbs,
04:19the carbs and the this and the that,
04:20and it's like, bro, like, I got this.
04:22This right here, I got.
04:24I've lived in this body for a long time.
04:26Carl, he's a chicken and salad dude,
04:30literally from when we were kids.
04:32And salad dude, literally from when we start shooting
04:35to when we rap, I think that's all he eats.
04:38Karen is a foodie.
04:39She is like 90 pounds wet,
04:43and she can eat anything she wants.
04:45I'll describe nights hanging with Karen.
04:48Meat sweats and food coma.
04:53Oh, the diet, hands down.
04:55Because the diet involves discipline.
04:57Like the workout, I enjoy working out.
04:59Working out for me is like, it's my favorite pastime.
05:02It's stress reliever, it's therapy,
05:04but the diet is what really, you know,
05:07because on set, they're constantly making snacks
05:10to keep the crew going so that you don't feel the 14 hours.
05:13Your body craves it when it's like 20 below outside
05:16and you're shooting in the snow.
05:17Your body wants some comfort, so that part becomes hard.
05:22Toronto has really elevated the game.
05:27They are masters at pizzas and burgers,
05:31and I discovered Toronto's best smash burger.
05:34And they pair it with onion rings
05:37or some seasoned curly fries.
05:40Their pizzas are just like, you know,
05:41the perfect, perfect combination of crisp, crunch,
05:46a nice crunchy crust, but then the top is like nice
05:50and soft and melted and saucy.
05:53My mouth is watering as we speak.
05:57I've gone to some more peanut butter.
05:58I used to be a chunky guy,
05:59because I felt like I was getting more, you know,
06:01real stuff, you know, peanuts.
06:03But smooth peanut butter, it just doesn't break the bread.
06:06You use it in a smoothie,
06:08but I've been doing more almond butter than peanut butter.
06:13Ooh, out of all my characters, I would say Mother's Milk.
06:16I love his analogies and the way he looks at life.
06:20So if I could have a meal with any of my characters,
06:22it would definitely be Mother's Milk.
06:23I would definitely ask him for advice.
06:27So I was just in London.
06:29I got to work on a film with Guy Ritchie.
06:30Again, this is our second film together.
06:32And I discovered this church
06:34that had been turned into a food hall.
06:37Upstairs in the church, there were these two pop-up shops
06:42that were next to each other.
06:43And it was perfect because I love surf and turf.
06:47I was able to start my meals off with a nice dozen oysters.
06:51And then I would pair it with a nice sirloin steak
06:56and crisps.
06:57They call fries crisps.
06:59I didn't feel as guilty eating crisps.
07:01And a side salad.
07:03Always throw your greens in there.
07:06I eat ice cream in bed.
07:07I've discovered some sugar-free ice cream
07:10that makes me feel a lot better
07:11about finishing up a whole pint.
07:13I thought this interview was gonna be
07:15about how good I eat.
07:17And I have literally destroyed my credibility.
07:20But there is sugar-free ice cream out there
07:22that's very good.
07:25So you know what I do tend to munch on
07:28that helps me lose weight is nuts.
07:30So I'll eat pistachios, macadamia nuts.
07:33Those are probably the two nuts
07:34that I eat the most.
07:35Cashews come in third.
07:36I make my own cashew milk at home.
07:38Sometimes I make cashew and coconut milk
07:40just to stay away from as much lactose
07:43and dairy as I can when I can.
07:45I try to eat as much whole food as possible,
07:47as little processed food as possible.
07:49If you eat more like your parents wanted you to eat
07:53when you were a kid,
07:54you're pretty much on the right track.
07:56I'm Lazzalonzo, and that's what my unhealthy,
07:58healthy diet looks like.
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