Now we all know Alex O’Loughlin looks hot shirtless…it’s quite evident in the above picture from his forthcoming movie, The Back Up Plan. Time Out New York had a chance to talk to Alex about he keeps his body just right. I really could stare at his stomach forever. Here are the highlights of the interview:
On his current fitness routine: Pretty extreme. I’m playing a surgeon currently, so I’m trying to say on the thinner, leaner side. I’ve seen a lot of the surgeons move around the hospital quickly, eat on the run; they’re pretty lean.
On how he keeps himself lean: I do circuit training, interval training. I do this interval thing called Tabata. It’s 20 seconds on, ten seconds off at 100 percent intensity. I aim for four days a week.
On what he doesn’t like to do fitness wise: Swimming in a pool back and forth drives me crazy, but I can run for hours. Whatever I can do outside I prefer to do. I much prefer to get up in the hills, use trees and rocks.
On if he hurts himself on the rocks: All the time! I been hurting myself since I was like five years old. People ask what kind of kid I was—I used to steal bricks from construction sites, build walls from them, then ride my trike down through them. I fell out of a rope swing when I was six years old and I’ve had a couple motorcycle accidents, so I have to keep my core really strong. Every workout I do has a core-based strength to it. If you focus on your core, doing Pilates and things, everything else will respond better.
On what kind of music he listens to while working out: Rock. Hard rock. Like, really old Metallica, from their first four albums, or Soundgarden. Tool. I love working out to Tool.
On what food he eats for a break: I have a very sweet tooth. You could put a giant chocolate cake in front of me and I will eat it. Unashamedly, no apologies. But if it’s not there, I don’t eat it. Once I a week, I have one day off where I eat whatever I want. Honey Smacks! They drive me crazy. And Froot Loops.
Froot Loops? He is perfect. I love them too! (Remember to watch Alex on Three Rivers on Sunday nights on CBS!)
I have to admit that I have been dragging my butt all day. I swear today is Monday! I got an alert for @TalkinToU about new pictures from The Back-Up Plan. I clicked over to see this one of Alex shirtless. I woke up instantly when I saw it. The people that are marketing this movie have one thing good going on. They know we like to see Alex shirtless! I say all the power to them and they should just keep working with that formula. (A bigger version of the picture above included below, just so you can memorize every part of his chest.)
The synopsis for this movie is the following: After years of dating, Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) has decided waiting for the right one is taking too long. Determined to become a mother, she commits to a plan, makes an appointment and decides to go it alone. On the day of her artificial insemination, Zoe meets Stan (Alex O’Loughlin) – a man with real possibilities. Trying to nurture a budding relationship and hide the early signs of pregnancy becomes a comedy of errors for Zoe and creates confusing signals for Stan. When Zoe nervously reveals the reason for her unpredictable behavior, Stan commits fully and says he’s in. Never before has love seen a courtship where a wild night of sex involves three in a bed – Stan, Zoe and the ever-present massive pregnancy pillow. Or, where “date night†consists of being the “focal point†at a near-stranger’s water birth which does for kiddie pools what “Jaws†did for swimming in the ocean. The real pregnancy test comes when both of them realize they really don’t know each other outside of hormonal chaos and birth preparations. With the nine month clock ticking, both begin to experience cold feet. Anyone can fall in love, get married and have a baby but doing it backwards in hyper-drive could be proof positive that they were made for each other.
The first stills of Alex O’Loughlin from The Back-Up Plan have been released by CBS Films. I am so surprised to learn that CBS produced this movie. But it must have been under Alex’s one year holding contract with them. (Sorry, I am still a bit bitter with the Moonlight thing.)
Alex also was talking about earlier this week a the TCAÂ Press Tour how while researching his role for Three Rivers that he found that he was so boring that he said he should have become a doctor himself.
“You know, I don’t have any training in medicine, and there’s so much to learn, even just to get off the ground and be convincing when you say the words. And, you know, the whole time we’re in Pittsburgh, and before that as well, I was into medical journals and I was on the phone, and I was researching all night. I’ve chosen the wrong profession. I’m so boring. I should have been a doctor. I found out that my father wanted to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. That was a dream of his later; it was something that he was obsessed with as well.â€
I think that I speak from all the fans when I say that we don’t find Alex boring at all. Even though we would love seeing him in scrubs all the time.
New promo pictures of Alex O’Loughlin in Three Rivers have come out today. I couldn’t be happier. The picture above is so beautiful. And speaking of Alex, I added him to my background on Twitter the other day. (You can check it out at @taylor_blue)
Alex also wrote a blog on his MySpace today. I haven’t been able to stop reading it since it arrived in my inbox. Alex is amazing to his fans and this post he wrote today really proves it. He talks about how he hasn’t stopped working since his last update and a bit about how it was working with Jennifer Lopez. But the last paragraph of the blog is was impressed me the most.
Thank you all so much for the constant support. It can be difficult to reach you all personally and individually, but none of your love and hard work ever goes unnoticed or unappreciated. It is something in my life that helps me find the energy I don’t always think I have, to get through another long work day and stay inspired. Without you all it would be kind of pointless so, again, thank you.
All my love
Alex O’Loughlin x
That’s Alex always thinking of other people. That’s why I love him as an actor. That’s why I’ll always support him.
I’ve finally had a chance to look through the last day’s pictures from The Back-Up Plan set. I’m sad that I won’t be able to get my daily fix of Alex O’Loughlin, but fall is coming soon and I’ll get to see him on TV all the time. So this isn’t the end, it’s only the beginning.
It’s that time of day again where I post yesterday and today’s photos from the set of The Back-Up Plan. I am loving the set out that (with help) I found of Alex O’Loughlin kissing Jennifer Lopez. There is something about that that makes me swoon.
I can only imagine how the dialogue for the characters went.
Alex’s character: I can kiss you right? I really want to kiss you.
Jennifer’s character: Well..you…can…do whatever you want.
Alex’s character: *Leaning close* Then I choose to kiss you.
*Both characters kiss and the crowd goes wild with Awwww’s*
There is even a video that goes along with the kiss. It is definitely worth watching!
