GQ's always a good time.

Makes me feel special when I shoot with GQ.

[upbeat music]

Bonjour GQ, my name is KJ Apa, and these are my essentials.

Like the little bonjour I added in there guys?

This here is a guitar made by Fender.

I'll get a closer look on that.

This guitar here I keep on set all the time.

I like the color because yellow is my favorite color.

Any guitar is okay.

I can't live without a guitar I don't think.

I've been playing since I was 11 years old

and I'm 22 years old right now.

I have many guitars, but this guitar is my favorite guitar.

I will not be playing the guitar for you right now.

[laughing]

The next essential item that we have here is moisturizer

for the face.

I start the day with a moisturizer,

I end the day with a moisturizer.

I have moisturizer after lunch,

I have my moisturizer after morning tea.

After everything really.

It's really important to stay moisturized, stay healthy,

and stay young [laughing].

I just think it's simple.

You know as a man I think typically men don't wear makeup.

Typically, but we can do whatever we want.

I don't wear makeup myself,

but I like to keep it simple

and I think moisturizer's the best way to do that.

To look after the skin.

The next essential that we have is a pen.

Any kind of pen will do.

The reason why I chose a pen too, instead of like a phone

or something you can write down on

is 'cause I can live without my phone.

You have problems if you can't live without your cell phone,

but a pen is a great way to jot some notes down for me.

You know, I like writing letters to my girlfriend,

so this is perfect for me.

You know what I mean?

I'm writing, I'm writing ideas.

I'm constantly drawing things.

I'm an artist, I'm just doing [laughing].

I'm kidding.

Okay, a pen, a pen's good.

[laughing]

- [Interviewer] Where do you usually keep your pen?

- Right here.

But every back that I have, backpack that I have,

99% of the time has a pen inside of it.

And the next essential that we have is a protein bar.

This protein bar has about 200 calories in it

which is a perfect little snack.

I like to work out a lot

and I like to keep my diet regularly pretty clean.

This is killing you isn't it sound?

[squeaking tearing foil]

It's fine.

You can handle it.

It's just a standard kind of chocolate chip protein bar.

Sometimes you can put them in the fridge,

harden it up a little bit.

Makes it last longer.

Cookie dough.

It can be really hard, you know, when you're on set

and you need a quick little snack.

Run by craft team, what can I get?

Oh, a protein bar.

Grab one of these, all sorted.

Also really good for traveling

if you need to take a little snack for the plane

or something while you're waiting

in the business lounge.

You can take one of these [laughing].

Next [laughing].

The next essential is a blindfold.

Just a classic, normal blindfold, like so.

Completely blacks out everything when you're sleeping

which is really, really important

if you don't have blackout curtains,

which, by the way, is a really good investment as well

which I would also add in to the 10 essentials,

but I couldn't bring my blackout curtains

so I brought this blindfold.

Really awesome for traveling.

Me, myself, because I do travel first class [laughing],

it comes with one of these, so.

Unnecessary piece of information there,

but it's all good [laughing].

To my other fellow actors or other nomads

who are out there traveling all the time, you guys know.

You know what I'm talking about with one of these.

Sleep is a necessity.

It's also very scare in the business that we're in

so we need to make sure that we're looking

after ourselves and we're resting

and we're getting lots of sleep.

This thing, is gonna help you with that.

The next essential is headphones.

This is probably one of the favorites actually

out of all the essentials,

just because music.

I love listening to music.

You can listen to music anywhere.

I constantly find myself using this essential

probably more than most of the other essentials,

other than the moisturizer, I'd say.

This is a hat.

I have red hair.

Sometimes you know, when I go out in public,

it's good to cover up the carrot top,

just so I can keep it a little low key

if you know what I'm talking about.

This specific hat is one of my favorite hats too,

but any hat will do if I'm outside.

I love this hat, it's green [laughing].

It's just a hat.

Obey worldwide, but any hat, like I said,

any hat will work, as long as it covers the red.

Okay the next essential that we have is

a watermelon.

Happens to be my favorite food.

I used to take watermelons to school every day

with me in my backpack and that was my lunch.

I used to cut it open and just eat it straight,

straight from the thing with a spoon.

Oh, it's been my favorite since I was a young man.

Bit of hair's good on that too

if you want some hair on your watermelon, it's always nice.

Cheers for that [laughing].

I'm kidding, it's my hair, it was red.

Ah, but yeah.

Watermelon's a great little snack.

It's refreshing, it's 90% water.

I think.

And yeah, that's why it's on my 10 essentials.

[laughing]

Thank you.

It's quite heavy, aye?

- [Assistant] Just a little bit.

- Okay, now this next essential is also, you know,

up there in my favorites.

Charles Melton, ladies and gentlemen.

Probably my best mate.

I keep this next to my bed actually every night.

You know, just to remind me of, you know,

my friends and just look at him.

He's just this legend.

Getting a good closeup on that?

Get a good closeup if you can.

That's good.

Charles Melton everyone.

Ladies and gentleman.

Round of applause.

[clapping]

He would not be happy with that, actually.

There should be a lot more people clapping,

but it's all good.

Okay, the next essential is an essential

and I'm sure a lot of you guys can relate to me on this one.

This is coffee.

I can't show you that but I promise you

there's coffee in here.

[slurping]

I like my coffee black, no cream, no sugar.

It's just a standard thing, you know,

that I need in my life actually.

Just to keep me going when times get rough.

On set it's also another thing that

if you get hungry sometimes, just have a coffee.

It can just really push down the hunger

and if you need a little pickup, coffee's perfect for it.

[slurping]

Dean, how many cups of coffee do I have a day?

I'm closing in on about seven.

Dean is in charge of my hair

and he makes really good coffee.

Anyway guys, that is it for the 10 essentials.

I really hope that you enjoy it.

I wish that I could sit here

and tell you about all my essentials all day long.

I have many, many more.

Unfortunately, that is it for us.

GQ, thank you so much for having me.

Have a great one.

Bon voyage, salute.

[slurping]

[hands pounding]