00:00Now I've had a lot of people talk to me or ask me questions about how I got into shape
00:05and
00:06what I did, what I ate, how I trained, what I did, how hard is it at your age and
00:11all of these things
00:12and honestly I just wanted to take a second to say yeah I had to turn up and I had
00:18to yep I had
00:19to do those deadlifts and I had to eat those meals but I had an incredible team that helped me.
00:25When I say team I'm going to mention like eight people and because there's not a hope in hell I
00:31would have got there without them. First I mainly want to mention Beth Lewis who's been my trainer
00:35for five years now and has trained me for doing an arena show, for doing a Broadway musical and for
00:42doing this. I am in better shape and when I say shape what I mean is physical health, my knees,
00:48my shoulders that have bothered me for years gone. She's helped me get through this, get the results
00:54I needed but feeling fantastic. She never makes me overwork, she made me realize that I had been
00:59overworking in the past. She always was present, thoughtful, kind and then when it was time to push
01:06me she could push me. Beth you really were the quarterback for this whole thing and I am beyond
01:12grateful that I have you supporting me on these journeys that I'm on and there was a period where
01:18Beth when I was in London where my friend Michael Ryan came in to train me for about, he was
01:23about a
01:23month when Beth had to go back and we were on hiatus because of the strike. Michael, I love you
01:29Mike and Mike and I have been training together since I was 20 so that was just awesome. And then
01:34I want
01:34to talk about the people who helped me eat right because for a year I didn't have to think about
01:38what
01:39I was shopping for, cooking for. I just had someone counting up my macros which for those people who
01:44don't know is basically how many grams of protein or fat or carbohydrate you have at different phases
01:52in your training in order to get the result. And Mario was the main one here in America who would
01:57deliver food for me that was delicious and fresh and sometimes bland because it had to be but always
02:04healthy and sourced beautifully. And then in England there was Saul and on the weekends I had Sarah
02:09and for over a year, I'm going to say a year and a half, I had someone preparing me meals
02:14which made
02:15it so much easier. Then there was Whitney, my makeup artist who was called in to, yep, put on, I
02:24don't
02:24even know what it was, some kind of oil to make my skin glisten. You'd hear Sean Levy yell out
02:32fresh
02:33lube on Hugh. And everyone would sort of cringe a little bit, not cringe, laugh. And while I'm at
02:40it, Ryan and Sean, and I'm saying this as producers, as directors who are like constantly like, tell me
02:45the date you want, when we're doing that power room scene with your shirt off, what date is it? I
02:50said I
02:50need it on this date and we can't move it and it was locked in. And Zulu, our first AD
02:56who I've done so
02:57many movies with, who literally the day we, I knew he was on, he goes, okay, how are we going
03:02to land
03:02this plane, man? How are we going to land this plane? Tell me which day you want to be and
03:06I'll
03:07lock it in and no one will be able to move it. And he understood the process and then on
03:11the day,
03:12because I was grumpy, I was not having water the night before, I was eating tilapia and beans for days
03:18and how to make that day work best for me. Everyone on set was just making it easy. So if
03:25you're still
03:26listening, thank you, but it's really important to me that I acknowledge those people who have spent
03:31a lifetime doing what they do. I'm in it, they're at the top of their game, they're the best in
03:36the
03:36world and I feel so privileged to have them in my corner and I would not have achieved that result
03:42without them. So thanks.
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