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RING MASTER At 50, Frank Grillo boxes daily and carries only 5% body fat. THE FIGHT OF HIS LIFE > ACTOR FRANK GRILLO IS A REAL-LIFE ACTION HERO WHO’S READY TO SAVE HOLLYWOOD. BY SEAN HYSON /// PHOTOGRAPHS BY DUSTIN SNIPES There’s a 50-year-old man sitting across from me who looks like he could take my head off with one clean shot. Frank Grillo, who plays the supervillain Crossbones in this summer’s Captain America: Civil War, is having lunch, and with each slice of his knife through the grilled salmon on the plate in front of him, the vein in his swollen biceps leaps from his skin. But that’s nothing compared with the veins on the right side of his neck: They look like the hydraulic cylinders that help the Terminator turn his head. To compare Grillo to a machine, particularly a killing machine, is neither a swipe at the guy nor an embellishment. Consider that he gets up at 6 a.m. daily to travel to one of L.A.’s premier boxing gyms, where he’ll put in two hours of training, including sparring sessions with professional fighters. Then he’ll go film either his MMA- 42 MUSCLE & FITNESS JULY/AUGUST <strong>2016</strong>
FRANK GRILLO themed TV show, Kingdom, or the next installment of one of his huge movie franchises—The Purge series or Captain America—and then he’s back home at night to be a husband and dad to three kids. “My wife used to ask me, ‘Why are you always fighting?’ ” says Grillo with a smile. “I said, ‘I don’t know, but there’s a reason.’ ” UP-AND-COMER There are several reasons, in fact, and they started for Grillo in the second grade. “I’ll tell you what did it,” he says to me, pushing himself back a bit from the table as if bracing for impact after I ask him what got him interested in combat sports in the first place. “I had a fight with a kid named J.J. Morales. He beat me up. Then he beat me up again. So I said to myself, ‘I’m going to learn how to fight, and I’m going to beat up J.J. Morales.’ And I did.” Grillo’s dad taught him to throw a single punch, and Grillo landed it on Sled Drag q Grillo attaches a rope to a weighted sled and will row it toward him for the length of the room. Then he’ll grasp the sled itself and push it all the way back immediately. The sled builds endurance and strength. the bully’s face, ending his torment and beginning a lifelong love affair with all things martial. He wrestled in high school and began boxing in his mid-20s. In 1991, he discovered Brazilian jiu-jitsu—two years before the rest of the world did when Royce Gracie effortlessly dominated the first UFC event. He trained under Rickson Gracie (widely regarded as the best jiu-jitsu fighter ever), ultimately ascending to the rank of brown belt. Grillo was born in the Bronx (that much is evident as soon as you hear him speak) and raised an hour north in Rockland County. Apart from his blue-collar Italian roots and schoolyard fisticuffs, he says he doesn’t really know where he got the drive to push his body or his limits and that the last thing anyone expected was for him to become a movie actor. Grillo went to New York University and landed a job on Wall Street. “I did it for about a year, but it wasn’t for me,” he says. “Wearing the suit? No.” He had dabbled in theater, performing in school and regional plays, and decided to move to L.A. to make a run at acting. “Nobody in my family ever acted or was in the arts. It was like my dirty secret. Who would take me seriously as an actor?” Casting agents did. They responded to his dark good looks and natural charisma, and he got TOW THE LINE Box ’N Burn co-owner Tony Jeffries looks on as Grillo gets after it. cast on the long-running CBS soap opera Guiding Light. “And that’s when I didn’t have to work odd jobs any more,” he says. “They paid me $2,500 a day and guaranteed me three days a week. I figured I was rich.” The job had other perks, too: Grillo met castmate Wendy Moniz, and the two married in 2000. IN THIS CORNER Grillo turns 51 this month, but his body could easily pass for 30. He carries just 5% body fat. When I remind him that imdb.com has him turning 53, he snaps, “I know! And you know they won’t change it? I have to go to them with my passport, not my license, to get them to change it. I have no idea why.” He reaches into his back pocket and produces his California driver’s license. It confirms his age will be 51 on June 8, his height is 5'10", his weight 170, and (in case you’re wondering) he is, in fact, an organ donor. Like his body, Grillo’s face, too, is surprisingly youthful, which he partially credits to switching his martial arts mainstay from jiu-jitsu to boxing since he became serious about acting. How exactly can getting punched in the kisser be better for your looks? “When you get punched, you get a lump,” Grillo explains to me, mushing his cheek with his own right cross to demonstrate. “You put some ice on it, and it goes away in a couple of days. But with jiu-jitsu, they’re abrasions.” Repeated headlocks and rubbing of one’s face into an opponent’s gi, or the mat scrapes and scratches the face, he says. “Being an actor, you have to be careful with that.” I laugh, pointing out to Grillo that his job is forcing him to care about his looks far more than he ever would on his own. It’s made him a “pretty boy,” right? He replies that, most of the time, he doesn’t even wear makeup in his movies. GROOMING BY CARLY CAMPBELL JULY/AUGUST <strong>2016</strong> MUSCLE & FITNESS 43
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