Alec Baldwin is making his health and fitness a priority.
On the latest episode of The Baldwins, the 67-year-old actor and his wife, 41-year-old Hilaria Baldwin, tried an at-home yoga session.
“Alec coming and working out, being a little bit more active, can only help,” Hilaria, said. “He’s taken like exercise, a couple yoga classes with me over the past 13 years, not his thing. We tried to run together a few times. It’s just not his thing.”
“And it’s not just the age difference, it’s just that he’s a theater kid and I’m a jock,” she continued.
As Alec explained, the stressful events of the past year (which included him being charged in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins) have taken a toll on his physical well-being.
“It really, really negatively affected my health, and I wasn’t like that,” he admitted. “No matter what I had, my hip hurt, this hurt. I had energy, and now this sucked a lot of the energy out of me. And so a year from now, I want to have put a lot of focus on my health and have that be very different.”
The 30 Rock star said that his physical activity levels started dropping off after he turned 40.
“So to be married to somebody who’s as physically fit as you, as I’m kind of slipping — my strength and my coordination— it is bizarre,” he told Hilaria. “I just want to get healthy.”
Alec has made major body transformations in the past. He went on to recall the strict measures he took to drop 25 pounds for his 2013 film, Blue Jasmine.
“I didn’t have no pasta, no potatoes, no candy, no sugar, and I lost probably 25 pounds,” he said. “You see me in the movie and I look trim, comparatively speaking, but I did have the barbecue sauce in my hair.”
According to Hilaria, after just a few weeks, Alec’s efforts were already paying off.
“I’m seeing you more at the gym, I’m seeing you calmer,” she said. “It’s gonna take us a really long time to let this sink and learn how to live again.”