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How To! with Mike Pesca

How To Look Like a Superhero

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

How did Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman get so buff to play Deadpool and Wolverine? An up-and-coming Hollywood actor wants to know so he can land his own superhero role. In this episode of How To! we turn to Reynolds' and Jackman's trainer, Don Saladino, who says the key to six-pack abs and bulging biceps is not what you think. In fact, it's something we can all do.

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0:00.0

This one is insane this thing called the duck walk the duck walk

0:04.8

All right I'm about to walk as a duck

0:08.2

Okay, so first of all...

0:13.0

How'd that feel? If it, I mean if it walks like a duck and if it talks like a duck...

0:18.0

Does it fly like Superman? This is how to, and I'm Charles Duig.

0:28.0

Each week on this show, we tackle life's big problems,

0:30.3

one question at a time, like how to withstand pain or how to uproot your life.

0:35.0

Then we do some research and we track down an expert to get their advice and we see if it helps.

0:42.0

This week we're talking with an up-and-coming Hollywood actor.

0:47.0

If you wouldn't mind telling me your name and how you would introduce yourself at a cocktail party?

0:53.3

Sure.

0:54.3

Well, my name is Jeff Leach, and I would introduce myself

0:57.5

at cocktail party by jumping on the nearest table,

1:00.7

taking off my clothes and pouring liquor directly down everyone's throat so I can live

1:05.2

vicariously through their alcoholism. I want to play superheroes and supervillains in big movies and you can't do that if you drink. You'll always have a little

1:15.3

bit of puppy fat hanging on the sides and as we all know superheroes you know they're too busy saving

1:19.8

the world to get drunk. Jeff's serious about wanting to play a superhero, and it's a realistic possibility for him.

1:28.0

He's already gotten a few minor TV and movie roles, and he's got the charisma and the swagger to make it as a superhero. As long as he can get

1:35.5

buff enough to look the part. Certainly I've never been out of shape, but I also have never

1:41.2

been absolutely stacked and that's currently the path I'm trying to get on.

1:46.8

Being the lead in a big superhero movie, that's something he's always wanted since he was a kid reading comic books in the UK. I liked antiheroes more so I like

1:54.8

someone like Loki or Loboos you know or Deadpool. Like what appeals to you about

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