Work Out Routine

I basically was dieting the entire time I was filming Buffy. Because it occurred to me that the only vampires to really stick in the imagination of the audience were the ones who were very thin when they played the role. There weren’t a lot of pudgy vampires that people remembered, even though there are pudgy vampires in film. The only exception to that was Bela Lugosi. Somehow he was so amazing that even though he was overweight he was still cool enough to be Dracula. But everyone else is just rail thin. I think it’s because vampires are metaphor for hunger — not just physical hunger, but psychological and sexual hunger. And it was a mandate for me that I just stopped chewing very much.

And then a lot of stomach crunches and a lot of free weights with a lower weight but at higher repetitions. If you do high weights with low repetitions, you tend to get larger muscles that are not well-defined. But if you do lower weights with higher rep, you get a leaner look that is sharper looking, which I think is better for a vampire.