Fresh Juice, Monster Boots, and Purple Glue Stick: 24 Hours With ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ Star Luke Evans

Reported by Vogue.

There is a very specific kind of person who can credit daily carrot-beet-apple-celery-ginger juice for fifteen years of good health while simultaneously squeezing into a corset every night at Studio 54 — and that person is Luke Evans, currently tearing up Broadway in The Rocky Horror Show. According to Vogue, the Welsh actor has made his stage debut one for the books: a Tony nomination, a temporary home in a jaw-dropping Chelsea apartment, and the kind of career moment he freely admits he may never top.

The Ritual Before the Transformation

Getting Evans from morning coffee to showtime is less a routine and more a full production. His espresso machine — which he has, apparently, assigned a vocal register — anchors the early hours before he walks his dachshund, Lala, and collects that signature fresh juice. He eats a substantial lunch, then nothing for the two hours before curtain, because the corset waits for no one. From there, it's wigs, stage makeup, and the pair of "monster boots" that launch him to a staggering 6'8" — a physical elevation that tracks with something Evans himself has said about the role: it's "probably the most extraordinary transformation I've ever experienced as an actor in any role I've ever done." Physically and spiritually, he means it.

The machine doesn't run on discipline alone. Evans's life and business partner, Fran, manages the day-to-day for their apparel and lifestyle brand BDXY Studio, freeing him to focus on the performance. His dresser, Emma Blodgette, keeps the monster boots and everything else in fighting shape. And then there are the fans — "rabid," by Evans's own description — who fill the house each night and clearly fuel the whole enterprise.

What Evans has built here — the juice ritual, the corset, the Tony nod, the Chelsea aerie — isn't a press moment. It's a person who took a sharp creative turn and landed somewhere genuinely thrilling. "I possibly can never come back to New York after this experience," he said, "because I don't think it'll ever match it." Honestly? Fair.

When a role asks you to become someone unrecognizable and you say yes without hesitation, that's not just good acting — that's good instincts.

Read the original at Vogue.