But I think that's changed in the last year-and-a-half. I used to say that I would have cheat meals whenever there was an opportunity-like, I used to really want to go to Peter Luger's in Brooklyn and have a steak there. The environment and the corruption of the meat industry specifically have just become more and more difficult to ignore from a consumer's standpoint. So veganism started as a health thing, but it became more about activism for you.
We make our own sauce, and it's such a great comfort food that we also put in the fridge and eat cold. We make this heavenly butternut squash pizza with Miyoko's cheese. Cooking together or for each other has been really lovely. My wife and I are cooking a lot more again now that we’re on the same diet. Luckily, today, it's so much easier to get things that are similar-tasting if I really have a craving for junk food. I miss pepperoni pizza and I definitely miss barbecue. And when we changed to vegan, I would still eat a lot before the show so I was full, but I felt completely functional. I was so slow, my mental acuity was not quite there, and I was sleepy. Before I went vegan, when I was doing Aladdin and would eat before the show, there were some meals where my body would just feel terrible. I definitely have more energy and I feel lighter. We're about 99 percent vegan-we still eat honey-but it's been a good three years. And I realized, "Oh, I can do this." We got a whole bunch of vegan cookbooks, and it was difficult at first because it's such a different way to cook. So that first day I just went out and ate a really delicious vegan meal somewhere. Being Filipino, you know, we love our pork. I went into this whole swirl, like, "What am I gonna eat?" I previously supplemented my workouts with a lot of meat, protein, stuff like that. It's become a huge social and activist issue for us as well. And we found that veganism was that change for us. There's cancer on both sides of my family and there's a history of neurodegenerative disease on her side of the family, so we just wanted to tune our bodies and be in the best place possible to have a fighting chance for whatever comes our way. My wife and I have been vegan for just over three years now. That's one of the biggest benefits for me as an actor and a New Yorker-jiu-jitsu slows me down in a good way. You really have to think and be present, and just take things as they come. You can't muscle your way through a match. You need to blow off some steam, and jiu-jitsu does that, because you're exhausted when you're wrestling, but it also teaches you to slow down. Being in New York, you're kind of on guard all the time. Does that apply to jiu-jitsu as well?Ībsolutely. It's a lot more interesting than the weight room, because the weights are trying to choke you out.Ī big part of yoga for a lot of people is the mental health benefits. I look at it as yoga, but, you know, people fight back. Jiu-jitsu is something that I really enjoy. In my off time I'll be able to get back into class.
I never called out because of an injury, but I unfortunately can't practice jiu-jitsu during filming, because I'm the only person that they film, and God forbid I break a finger falling down. During Aladdin, I also did Brazilian jiu-jitsu on the DL. For the past five years I would always be doing something active at night. I also do cardio at night to mimic doing a show at night, because that's what my body is used to. I'll do cardio at the end of the day because I can veg out on the elliptical, but it takes a little more attention and form when I'm doing weight and bodyweight stuff. I imagine your current routine is different from what you did when you were performing on Broadway every night.Įnergy-wise, they’re actually very similar, but I developed this routine because I have to sustain energy for many more hours on this current schedule.
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