Alan Ritchson says he pushed his body to the limit to gain 30 pounds for his role as Reacher, only to discover afterward that he had exhausted his testosterone levels.
“I was 205, 6-3, 205. I needed to put on 30 pounds for the role.”
“I built a gym in my house, and I worked my ass off. You cannot believe how hard I worked. Every day, like it was my life depended on it.”
“And I did it without any help. No steroids, no testosterone, nothing. Just hard work.”
“I go to the doctor, and ‘Let’s do a blood panel.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, you have no testosterone.’ I was like, ‘Okay, you know, I guess I beat it out of myself.’”
“So we started on testosterone, and it was like, ‘Oh my god, like a new me.’”
Glenn Powell says Tom Cruise pushed him to skydive solo, and when he couldn't find his parachute tab mid freefall, he thought Tom had just killed him.
“Tom hit me up a couple weeks later and was like, ‘Hey man, like, what are you scared?’”
“Tom's only request was that I couldn't go skydiving with another person. I had to go solo the first time.”
“My first thought was like, ‘Oh, Tom just killed me.’”
“I'm looking for the tab and I'm like, ‘You're not Tom Cruise. You'll never be Tom Cruise. Why did you do this?’”
“I finally pulled it. It was way below altitude. Came in hot. Made it. Went back up, did it again.”
Miles Teller says he broke out in hives after a flight while filming Top Gun: Maverick, and was shocked to discover he had flame retardant, pesticides, and jet fuel in his blood. Tom Cruise’s response was priceless.
“I landed, we got done, and I was like, ‘Man, I’m not feeling too good.’ I was really hot, and I just started itching like crazy. I get out of the jet, and I’m covered in hives. Like, head to toe.”
“My blood work comes back and I have flame retardant, pesticides, and jet fuel in my blood.”
“I told Tom, ‘Well, Tom, it turns out I have jet fuel in my blood.’ Without even skipping a beat, Tom just goes, ‘Yeah, I was born with it, kid.’”
“I thought, wait a second, this is actually kind of cool. And it was ,there’s your Top Gun. That was a very Tom moment for me.”
Miles Teller says he broke out in hives after a flight while filming Top Gun: Maverick, and was shocked to discover he had flame retardant, pesticides, and jet fuel in his blood. Tom Cruise’s response was priceless.
“I landed, we got done, and I was like, ‘Man, I’m not feeling too good.’ I was really hot, and I just started itching like crazy. I get out of the jet, and I’m covered in hives. Like, head to toe.”
“My blood work comes back and I have flame retardant, pesticides, and jet fuel in my blood.”
“I told Tom, ‘Well, Tom, it turns out I have jet fuel in my blood.’ Without even skipping a beat, Tom just goes, ‘Yeah, I was born with it, kid.’”
“I thought, wait a second, this is actually kind of cool. And it was ,there’s your Top Gun. That was a very Tom moment for me.”
Caller: Dave, my wife graduates dental school in May. We owe $750,000 in student loans, plus I have another $40,000 in consumer debt. Where do we even start?
Dave: You two don't understand how bad this is yet. Her debt is double what it should have been for that degree.
Caller: We were told dentists make good money and can handle it.
Dave: That's the trap. Dentists carry this stuff for 20 years and call it normal. It's not normal. It's a mess you made, and you have to own that.
Caller: Okay. So what do we do?
Dave: You live like absolute poor people. Rice, beans, no vacations, no new anything.
Caller: How long are we talking?
Dave: You're about to make $300,000 to $400,000 a year combined. Live like this and throw everything at the debt, and you can be done in about three years.
Caller: And if we don't?
Dave: Then you're paying on this until your kids are in college. Three years of misery, or twenty years of payments.
Caller: Dave, my wife graduates dental school in May. We owe $750,000 in student loans, plus I have another $40,000 in consumer debt. Where do we even start?
Dave: You two don't understand how bad this is yet. Her debt is double what it should have been for that degree.
Caller: We were told dentists make good money and can handle it.
Dave: That's the trap. Dentists carry this stuff for 20 years and call it normal. It's not normal. It's a mess you made, and you have to own that.
Caller: Okay. So what do we do?
Dave: You live like absolute poor people. Rice, beans, no vacations, no new anything.
Caller: How long are we talking?
Dave: You're about to make $300,000 to $400,000 a year combined. Live like this and throw everything at the debt, and you can be done in about three years.
Caller: And if we don't?
Dave: Then you're paying on this until your kids are in college. Three years of misery, or twenty years of payments.
Caller: “I’m 65. I have a $300,000 paid off house, $70,000 in savings, and I’m working as a receptionist making $1,600 a month.”
Dave Ramsey: “Keep $20,000 as your emergency fund and invest the other $50,000.”
Dave Ramsey: “You could sell your house, buy a $150,000 condo, and invest the remaining $150,000 for your retirement.”
Caller: “But isn’t it too late for me to start over?”
Dave Ramsey: “You used to be a medical lab technician. Why are you settling for a receptionist job? Go back and use the skills you already have.”
Dave Ramsey: “And never let your spouse make major financial decisions without full transparency. Day trading is not a retirement plan.”
Caller: “I’m 65. I have a $300,000 paid off house, $70,000 in savings, and I’m working as a receptionist making $1,600 a month.”
Dave Ramsey: “Keep $20,000 as your emergency fund and invest the other $50,000.”
Dave Ramsey: “You could sell your house, buy a $150,000 condo, and invest the remaining $150,000 for your retirement.”
Caller: “But isn’t it too late for me to start over?”
Dave Ramsey: “You used to be a medical lab technician. Why are you settling for a receptionist job? Go back and use the skills you already have.”
Dave Ramsey: “And never let your spouse make major financial decisions without full transparency. Day trading is not a retirement plan.”
Eddie Murphy recalled how Keenen Ivory Wayans ended up wearing his iconic red leather suit out to Studio 54 back when they were teenagers.
“Keenan's like 6'4", with muscles, so the suit was busting off him. And I said, 'I dare you to go out with that suit on.'”
“He was 'Frenchy' one night from 10:00 to 6:00 in the morning, and didn't come out of character... and at the end of the night the suit was destroyed.”
“Girls would call the house to be like, 'Is Frenchy there?' He was like, 'I can't go out with her. She met me as Frenchy.'”
Eddie Murphy recalled how Keenen Ivory Wayans ended up wearing his iconic red leather suit out to Studio 54 back when they were teenagers.
“Keenan's like 6'4", with muscles, so the suit was busting off him. And I said, 'I dare you to go out with that suit on.'”
“He was 'Frenchy' one night from 10:00 to 6:00 in the morning, and didn't come out of character... and at the end of the night the suit was destroyed.”
“Girls would call the house to be like, 'Is Frenchy there?' He was like, 'I can't go out with her. She met me as Frenchy.'”
Nathan Fielder hilariously claims his real Boeing 737 flight over the Mojave Desert could become a turning point in aviation, even comparing it to the “Miracle on the Hudson”
“I found someone who would lease me a 737, and it’s very hard to convince someone to lease a comedian a 737. But I found someone to do it, and we chartered a real flight over the Mojave Desert.”
“When people look back at this miracle over the Mojave, they will see that this might be a turning point in aviation.”
Nathan Fielder hilariously claims his real Boeing 737 flight over the Mojave Desert could become a turning point in aviation, even comparing it to the “Miracle on the Hudson”
“I found someone who would lease me a 737, and it’s very hard to convince someone to lease a comedian a 737. But I found someone to do it, and we chartered a real flight over the Mojave Desert.”
“When people look back at this miracle over the Mojave, they will see that this might be a turning point in aviation.”
Jenna Ortega says she’s been comparing herself to the biggest action stars in Hollywood, Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger while training for her upcoming gymnastics film
“Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’ve been doing a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.”
“Tom Cruise, there’s two people who operate at this athletic level that I’m on right now, and I think it’s me and Tom going back to back. Neck and neck.”
Jenna Ortega says she’s been comparing herself to the biggest action stars in Hollywood, Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger while training for her upcoming gymnastics film
“Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’ve been doing a lot of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.”
“Tom Cruise, there’s two people who operate at this athletic level that I’m on right now, and I think it’s me and Tom going back to back. Neck and neck.”
Eddie Murphy reveals how Rudy Ray Moore turned low budget movies and hilarious mistakes into a legacy that inspired him as a filmmaker.
“You could see the microphone coming in the shot. And that’s what made everybody start watching them initially.”
“When I got into movies, I found out how he made his movies, he became an inspirational figure to me. He’s a guerrilla filmmaker.”
Eddie Murphy reveals how Rudy Ray Moore turned low budget movies and hilarious mistakes into a legacy that inspired him as a filmmaker.
“You could see the microphone coming in the shot. And that’s what made everybody start watching them initially.”
“When I got into movies, I found out how he made his movies, he became an inspirational figure to me. He’s a guerrilla filmmaker.”
John Oliver claims he once cooked breakfast for the Queen at Buckingham Palace, then reveals an even crazier story.
“I made the Queen an omelette for breakfast.”
“The Queen would not eat feta cheese!”
“I flew in on an umbrella, you racist!”
“At 19, I was thrown out of a Tokyo sauna for not being naked enough.”
John Oliver claims he once cooked breakfast for the Queen at Buckingham Palace, then reveals an even crazier story.
“I made the Queen an omelette for breakfast.”
“The Queen would not eat feta cheese!”
“I flew in on an umbrella, you racist!”
“At 19, I was thrown out of a Tokyo sauna for not being naked enough.”
Helen Mirren says she was nervous about having to smoke on camera because she does not smoke at all in real life, but she discovered a trick to make it look believable.
“I’ve discovered actually, all you really need to do is have a lit cigarette in your hand,” Mirren explained. “And just once, in the whole two hours, you have to [exhale smoke]. But only once. The rest of the time, you just have a lit cigarette in your hand.”
Helen Mirren says she was nervous about having to smoke on camera because she does not smoke at all in real life, but she discovered a trick to make it look believable.
“I’ve discovered actually, all you really need to do is have a lit cigarette in your hand,” Mirren explained. “And just once, in the whole two hours, you have to [exhale smoke]. But only once. The rest of the time, you just have a lit cigarette in your hand.”
Jenna Ortega says horror films felt like a dream job because they gave her the chance to portray intense, insane emotions, and reveals how deliberately pursuing the genre helped shape her career, leading to Scream, X, and Wednesday.
“I just signed to a new agency, and they asked me what I wanted to be doing, and I said, ‘I really want to get into horror films.’
“When I was younger, when I was really little, I was always interested in dark things, but I would freak myself out and not sleep for weeks.
“I thought that it was a great opportunity for an actor to portray such high, intense, insane feelings. Horror just seemed like a dream job.
“I think Scream came around first. I filmed my X tape in the hotel room while shooting Scream, right after we had shot the opening sequence.”