Sarah Snook recently made her Broadway debut, and she found inspiration in a pretty unexpected place when preparing for the physical demands of the role. The Emmy-winning Succession star revealed she took a page from Taylor Swift’s book and embraced an interesting approach to treadmill workouts.
Snook is currently reprising her Olivier Award-winning performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway, which sees her playing 26 different characters. The show will play a strictly limited engagement of 14 weeks, and preparing for it was quite a physical undertaking for Snook.
“No alcohol, no caffeine. Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. And I do my lines at pace on a treadmill, you know. I heard that [Taylor did that] and thought, ‘That’s a genius idea. I’m gonna do that,’” Snook recently told The New Yorker.
Performing the play at London’s West End last year was even more physically demanding for Snook.
“It’s valuing sleep, needing to keep nutrition up because she’s taking a lot of it from breastfeeding. Keeping myself healthy for being a new mom also kept myself healthy for doing this marathon,” she explained.
As for Taylor Swift’s workout that inspired Snook, the singer previously told Time that she prepared for The Eras Tour by running on the treadmill and singing the entire set list out loud, changing the pace based on the speed of the songs.
