00:00We were raised in a very kind of like granola fashion.
00:03So going over to my friends' houses,
00:05I was packing my pockets.
00:06I was a little thief.
00:08Hi, I'm Lewis Pullman.
00:09Today, I'm going to tell you what my diet looks like
00:11and how it affects my training.
00:20I mean, my philosophy is pretty loose,
00:22unless I have a job that I'm preparing for,
00:24and then it's pretty regimented.
00:26I try and get as much protein in as possible.
00:29I'm also about rest.
00:30I think that's obviously very important,
00:33but I also think that like you should enjoy life
00:35and enjoy the things that you love.
00:37If you like beer, you should drink beer.
00:39And if you like bread, you should eat bread.
00:43My must-have foods are eggs, milk, avocado, and steak.
00:51Beef, actually in any form, really.
00:54I would say it's pretty slim.
00:56I'm like not a picky eater.
00:57I eat it all.
00:58My mom really made me clear the plate.
01:00If I have a choice,
01:01I'm probably going to scoot the asparagus
01:03to the edge of the plate.
01:06It makes your pee smell so weird.
01:10I wish that I was an early morning workout guy.
01:13I admire those people who can do that.
01:15I don't get the gumption and the kind of fuel
01:18that I need for a workout
01:20until probably like after 2 p.m.
01:23or I'm a late nighter after the day is done and then do it.
01:25I have no problem falling asleep after.
01:27I can pretty much sleep anywhere, anytime.
01:31I had to lose a lot of weight for this movie,
01:33Bad Times at the El Royale.
01:35That was kind of early on in my career.
01:38Should have looked in better avenues to kind of do what I did,
01:42but essentially that was just like really doing a lot of high cardio in the beginning
01:46and lowering my caloric intake gradually over the course of like a month and a half.
01:51And then eventually I cut out the cardio and just did die
01:54because your energies and output starts to really decrease.
01:58You don't want to be on set and, you know, be angry.
02:01Nobody wants that.
02:03Thunderbolts was a really interesting challenge
02:05because I play Bob who has multiple kind of facets to his to his character.
02:11And so in the beginning, he's very kind of scrawny and unassuming.
02:15We tried to kind of hide me under these really loose scrubs.
02:19And I tried to use my body language a lot to make him seem a lot smaller.
02:22And so how can you look like that scrawny in the beginning
02:25and then also look like your superhero in the end?
02:28I worked with this great trainer, Brendan.
02:31You know, I only had like a month and a half to prep,
02:33but it's what he eats, how to get superhero ready.
02:36Essentially, I did a lot of boxing, eating chicken, turkey, no carbs whatsoever
02:41and hitting the gym with him for like an hour and a half.
02:44That got me super lean.
02:46And then on like the day before, we kind of limited how much water I was drinking.
02:50And then like an hour before showtime, you're eating like Skittles and Snickers, which is fun.
02:57And you don't really even see it in the movie.
02:59You know, it's a scene where his shirt kind of gets like shot off his body.
03:02And Jake Schreier, to his credit, was like,
03:04it's kind of weird if just your shirt gets shot off your body and not like your pants.
03:08He was like, maybe we can just do this part.
03:10So then for like two hours before, I was just hitting Apt really hard
03:14because it was just that portion of my body.
03:16That was actually a tip that Wyatt Russell gave me early on.
03:21He was like, yeah, I did that in my first go.
03:23He was like, and then I saw the actual take that they used,
03:26and it was like two seconds on my back.
03:27He was like, I'm never doing that again.
03:28And I did it for myself.
03:29Now I know I can do it, and I learned a lot.
03:31And so I integrate a lot of what I learned into my solo workouts now.
03:36There is on set in Atlanta, which is also where all the stuntees work,
03:42and they do all their bad ass shit.
03:43And so that's in the day, if we ever had any kind of downtime,
03:47we could kind of plan a training session in there.
03:51Whoa.
03:53There are so many to choose from, and they're all probably good conversationalists.
03:59I'm wanting Iron Man.
04:00I'm wanting all three Spideys.
04:02Thor and Yelena, you know, Florence, because she just makes the dinner party lively.
04:10Chicken shawarma.
04:11I love chicken shawarma in my wine.
04:16Diet.
04:17I can be like an impulsive person, and so it's really just about staying at home
04:22and not keeping stuff in the fridge that you're not allowed to eat.
04:25Because if I go out and people are eating a burger, I'm going to probably lose that battle.
04:32Okay, this is my average day.
04:34This is my average breakfast.
04:35I'm not saying this is what everyone should do.
04:37This is just what I do and what I like have an appetite for every day.
04:40I usually will do four eggs, either sunny side up or soft-boiled with two pieces of sourdough bread
04:48with lots of butter and avocado and maybe some tomatoes in there.
04:53I'm not a huge coffee drinker, so usually I'll just have a, you know,
04:56so I always have to remind myself to drink a bunch of water.
04:58It's never something that, like, intuitionally comes to me when I first wake up,
05:02but it really does kind of help move things along.
05:06Lunch is trickier because I sometimes will skip lunch
05:09or have a late lunch and then a light dinner, but usually it's something like chicken or turkey.
05:16In my off days, I love burgers, but if I'm prepping for something,
05:19burgers are kind of the light at the end of the tunnel for me.
05:22I keep those on the horizon. They keep me going.
05:25It's the carrot, the dangling carrot that kind of keeps me moving forward.
05:29And yeah, so something light, you know, I can kind of go overboard with lunch
05:34and then have a kind of sagging portion of the day, so I try to avoid that.
05:38Dinner. Yeah, I grew up, like, my mom was making a lot of very, like, healthy,
05:43very conscious decisions when she was feeding us kids.
05:47So I have a palate for a lot of different things.
05:49Just try and get some greens in, usually roasted chicken, salad with chicken.
05:54And I'm not a picky eater, so in that way, I just basically try and not do anything too greasy
05:59to something that's going to make me feel really groggy when I wake up the next day.
06:04I love a good smoothie. It's hard when you've got a busy schedule to get it in,
06:08so I love protein bars. They're very, like, limited ingredients. I had two of them this morning.
06:14That's getting me to where I am right now. I wish I had had my eggs and sourdough and turkey bacon,
06:19but I didn't have time for it, so smoothies or some sort of meal bar is great.
06:24I just started taking AG1. I think there's a lot of minerals that I'm missing in my daily
06:29diet. I literally don't eat enough greens, and I don't have enough, like, of a consciously
06:34balanced diet. That's been great. It really has been helping my energy. They have not hired me.
06:39They're not paying me. I've only been doing it for, like, two months, but it's great. And then
06:43when I'm prepping for a roll, I'll start doing some creatine if the job requires it.
06:50That's hard for me. It took me a long time to learn to share. I'm the youngest
06:53kid, and so I'm used to everything getting snagged off of there, so I eat really fast.
06:58I'm at a place now where I'm comfortable with it. If it's somebody who I love and who I want to be
07:03nourished, I have a lot easier time sharing up my plate. I like to cook. I like to cook with my mom
07:09because I learn a lot from her. She's a very intuitional chef, and so it's cool to watch her
07:14do that and the artistry of that. I'm not as experienced, and I don't have the patience.
07:19I'm a great sandwich maker also. I make a mean sandwich. Turkey, arugula, avocado,
07:26some heirloom tomatoes, maybe some sauteed, like, farmer's market mushrooms, mayo. I know that's
07:33controversial. And, like, maybe just a thin layer of mustard in there. I hate a dry sandwich more than
07:41anything. My family's obsessed with fruit because my dad came to LA and was, like, blown away by how
07:48many fruit trees there were that were, like, there was always something in bloom, and there was always
07:52something that was, like, ripe, and they were always kind of just draped over the sidewalk,
07:56and it seemed like they were begging to be picked. So he kind of, like, ended up planting a lot of fruit
08:01trees, and so there's always very interesting fruits being integrated into our diets and our meals. My dad
08:07makes an incredible sapote sorbet. It's almost like a sweet avocado. You don't see them a lot in
08:14farmers markets because they brew so easily. And he puts nothing in them. He just de-seeds them,
08:19de-peels them, blends them, freezes them, and then puts them through this champion juicer. And it's,
08:24like, it's some of the best thing you can ever have, and you can only have in a Pullman household.
08:29So come on over and have some sapote sorbet. I have no qualms with eating in bed. Eating
08:35bad as long as you're okay doing a little brush off. I don't like crumbs. I'm not, like, under covers
08:40eating bad. I'm, like, cross-legged over the covers watching something. Just eat smart.
08:46I'm Lewis Pullman. Take it all with a grain of salt. But that is what my diet looks like. Thank you, guys.
