EDGE Rewind: Watch: Luke Evans Does Push-ups in a Teeny, Yellow Speedo; Talks New Album

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How does Luke Evans stay so fit? He offered a hint in a recent Instagram post.

The post, which has received more than 35,000 likes, shows Evans doing exercises with a swing, a hammock, and with elastic bands attached to trees. He does push-ups in a teeny-weeny yellow Speedo from Australian swimwear company Budgy Smuggler.

Evans workout was part of his training regimen for the Apple TV+ series "Echo 3," in which he plays Bambi, a man with military experience who attempts to rescue his sister, Amber (Jessica Ann Collins), alongside his brother-in-law, Prince (Michiel Huisman), once she disappears near the Colombia-Venezuela border.

In the caption he wrote: "#mondaymotivation this was my [Echo 3] desert island and jungle training. Using whatever I had around me. FYI, hammocks are really useful!! Miss those training sessions. [Apple TV+'s 'Echo 3'] starts NOVEMBER 23rd."

The post came as he is doing press for his latest project, "A Song for You," his new album, which he discussed in an interview with the Independent. He called the album a return to "his first love."

He celebrated the album's success with a video post IG with a caption: "WE'RE NO.4 IN THE ALBUM CHARTS, BABY!!!!! Thank you so very very much! It's all because of you, A Song For You is top 5 in the official UK album charts and it's blowing my mind! It means everything to me! Thank you! ❤️ #asongforyou"

Not that movie audiences haven't heard Evans sing -- he was Gaston in the live version of "Beauty and the Beast," but he's yet to take on a full musical role, despite the fact that before he was an action star, he was a performer in West End musicals who got his first major role co-starring in the 2002 London production of "Taboo," the legendary flop about the London nightclub whereLeigh Bowery and Boy George first got their start. Playing the show's lead -- a straight photographer -- was Evans first big break.

Even then at the age of 23 he was open about his sexuality. He told the Advocate at the time: "Well, it was something I'd spoken to a lot of people about, including my boyfriend at the time – we've broken up now – but at the time I just got 'Taboo,' I knew that even though my part was a straight character everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London I never tried to hide it... I knew I was going to have to do interviews with gay magazines, I knew this was going to happen. So I thought, Well, I'm going have to be open. It's who I am. And if people don't like it, then I don't want their jobs. I've never been a very good liar, which is another thing... If this means I'm going to be a poor man at 60, then at least I've lived a happy, open, gay life and not had to hide it from anybody."

His album "A Song for You" was recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra that the Telegraph says, despite being comprised largely of covers, "feels like a deeply personal work." Amongst the covers are Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me", "Over the Rainbow", originally performed by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz;" Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters," and two traditional songs -- the seasonal "Silent Night," and P "Calon Lân", a traditional Welsh hymn turned rugby anthem.

Serendipity led to Evans singing a duet with Nicole Kidman, with whom he starred in the Hulu series, "Nine Perfect Strangers," that was filmed in Australia. On the album, they pair for Christina Aguilera's Grammy-nominated "Say Something". He declined to ask Kidman to do "Come What May," which she had introduced in "Moulin Rouge" with Ewan McGregor because he didn't think that version could be topped; instead he sang with Charlotte Church, whom he met in Cardiff about a year before moving to London on a dance and theatre scholarship. "We've been around each other's lives for almost 20 years, so it's amazing to do full circles," he says. "We've been through so much separately and together."

In between the covers are two original tracks, written with Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Wadge (who has written for Ed Sheeran, Kacey Musgraves and Camila Cabello). "One is very sad, full of regret and missed opportunity, and the other is about the beginnings of something, when you meet someone and it's not in your control, you've been chosen to fall in love," Evans explains. He was charmed by the idea of love being this unstoppable force: "You're on the journey, you've been chosen to do this. I like that feeling that there's something bigger than us, when two people meet."

When asked this past September if he would like to be the next James Bond, he said he "jumped" at the chance. "I don't know what the current temperature is with audiences, whether they care enough to worry about what James Bond does in the bedroom."

Asked by the Telegraph if he was talking about the character's sexuality, or his own, Evans responded: "Both, I suppose. [My sexuality] hasn't had any impact on any of the roles I've played, my slate is so diverse, so varied in such a brilliant way. I've played everything and no one seems to have a problem with that." Also, he points out, Bond has changed. "We're not in the Roger Moore [era] where he sleeps with five women per film, that's not really what he's about any more. That was the point I was making [in September]. I think people are more interested in the spectacle, the story." He's a fan of Craig's, crediting him with turning round what was already a much-loved franchise. "It's huge. What are they gonna do next?! They're so fantastic, I love the movies and whoever gets the role will have very big shoes to fill."

Check out these IGs from Evans' account: