How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Antony Starr

New Zealand-born histrion Antony Starr, champion known to American audiences arsenic arch-villain Homelander from the Prime Video superhero parody “The Boys,” says that though he’s lived successful Los Angeles for the amended portion of a decade, his engaged shooting schedules person kept him acold afield for agelong stretches.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. radical springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday astir town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to devour and however to bask beingness connected the weekends.

“The Boys,” present successful the mediate of accumulation connected its 5th and last season, shoots successful Toronto, and Starr’s caller film, “G20” — which starts streaming connected Prime Video April 10 — was changeable connected determination successful Cape Town, South Africa. “So immoderate clip I person successful L.A., I similar to marque the astir of it,” helium told The Times successful a caller interview. “Because it’s my location present and I emotion it.”

That’s wherefore helium was enthusiastic to stock what helium cautioned successful beforehand was a super-ambitious perfect Sunday itinerary.

“There are going to beryllium immoderate crushed rules,” helium said. “This is simply a hypothetical, truthful there’s going to beryllium immoderate time-jumping backmost and distant similar a Marvel film, due to the fact that I’m going to get it each in. [Also] determination are nary calories and there’s nary cholesterol, OK?”

With these crushed rules agreed to, Starr began to sketch retired the pursuing supes-worthy Sunday.

This interrogation has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

6 a.m.: “Waking Up” with the sun
I emotion making java archetypal happening successful the greeting [right] earlier the prima comes up. And I meditate each morning. It’s an unthinkable mode to commencement the day. I usage an app called “Waking Up” by Sam Harris. It’s fundamentally a room of antithetic radical taking you done guided meditations. It sounds incredibly pretentious, [but] it sets maine up for the day. Then I fto the dogs in[to the bedroom] and person astir fractional an hr to conscionable chill.

8:30 a.m.: Saddle up the Sprinter
I person a 2005 Dodge Sprinter camper van, which I’ve had since conscionable earlier COVID-19. It’s been fitted retired by VanCraft successful San Diego, and they bash a hellhole of a bully job. It’s wholly self-sufficient. It’s got a bully blistery ablution successful the back, it’s got a small room and it’s got surfboard storage, which is bully due to the fact that I’m a surfer.

I’ve got 2 ace mutts, Maxine and her annoying small brother, Oliver, who is from Tijuana, Mexico. I conscionable adopted Ollie past twelvemonth from a spot called Pups Without Borders successful Van Nuys who bash an unthinkable occupation [rescuing pets]. So we each load into the van and deed the road.

9 a.m.: Pop implicit to Uncle Paulie’s for a Prosciutto
First I caput to Uncle Paulie’s connected Third Street. There’s a [sandwich determination called the Prosciutto], which is conscionable prosciutto, basil, mozzarella and a small spot of balsamic drizzle. So I get that [for later] — it’s conscionable the archetypal of respective nutrient stops — and past I caput to King’s Road Cafe, wherever I’ll astir apt get an Americano and a croissant.

10 a.m.: A broadside travel to Sidecar Doughnuts
After that, we’re going to caput up north, but we person to halt astatine Sidecar Doughnuts successful Santa Monica first. My favourite is the huckleberry [doughnut]. It’s pinkish and got each these small bits and bobs connected it, and it’s perfectly delicious. So I get that and immoderate much coffee.

11 a.m.: Catch immoderate waves
There’s a spot successful Malibu wherever you’re close connected the borderline of Ventura [County] called County Line Beach. [For my perfect Sunday] determination are conscionable capable radical successful the h2o that the likelihood are that if a shark attacks, it mightiness not beryllium me. And I’ll surf for possibly an hr and a half.

If I don’t spell there, I’d spell to [North Beach at] Leo Carrillo [State Park], which is simply a bully small spot due to the fact that the surf breaks truly good determination and it’s a dog[-friendly] formation arsenic well. Everyone volition beryllium thrilled to cognize that the van is solar-power ventilated truthful the dogs are successful fantastic signifier and not locked successful a stuffy car. The dogs emotion that beach. So we mightiness walk an hr oregon 2 there.

1:30 p.m.: Reel successful immoderate food and chips astatine Neptune’s Net
They’d instrumentality a nap portion I thrust up to Neptune’s Net. I’d decidedly get thing deep-fried with a broadside of chips — astir apt the food and chips — and past possibly get backmost successful the h2o for different 45 minutes [near there] earlier heading backmost to L.A. And, since it’s a semi-road trip, I forgot to notation that determination has to beryllium euphony arsenic well.

I marque a playlist that feels due and character-based for each occupation that I do, and since the premiere of “G20” is coming up, I recovered my playlist for that and present I’m obsessing implicit it again. It’s got Filter’s “Hey Man Nice Shot” connected it, immoderate Danzig, Foo Fighters, a New Zealand set called Headless Chickens, Iggy Pop, Joy Division, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, a small spot of Rammstein. It’s rather hard and rather moody — a batch similar my quality successful the movie.

4 p.m.: Catch a flick astatine IPIC
There’s a [movie theater] I’ve lone been to a fewer times called IPIC Theaters [in Westwood]; it’s got super-comfortable chairs and a dine-in enactment arsenic well. I’m not that funny successful the nutrient part, but I volition wholly overload connected popcorn — arsenic galore refills arsenic I tin get. It’s my Kryptonite. But connected this [ideal Sunday] it won’t marque maine consciousness sick.

The past movie I saw was astir apt “Nosferatu” — though I’m not definite if I saw it determination oregon determination else. I don’t get to the movies arsenic overmuch arsenic I’d like, and I thought this movie was bully for each the reasons different radical didn’t similar it.

6 p.m. Go afloat Princess and the Pea
Once I get retired of there, it’s astir apt nap clip due to the fact that basically, if I wasn’t going retired connected this peculiar Sunday, I would person spent the full time watching movies successful bed. I went brainsick precocious and turned my furniture into a afloat nest — I deliberation it indispensable beryllium due to the fact that I’m getting older — truthful I’ve got 1 of those memory-foam mattresses and precocious recovered this broad that’s similar a [cross between] a quilt and a large super-soft throw. [And] each of a abrupt I’ve turned into the Princess and the Pea. If I don’t aftermath up from that [nap and slumber done the night] it could, realistically beryllium the extremity of the day. It’s benignant of a rotation of the dice. [Otherwise] determination are 2 options.

7 p.m.: More movies oregon centrifugal to El Compadre
Option A would beryllium that I aftermath up, rotation over, flick the TV connected and enactment connected a movie. My favorites are “The Mission” and “Goodfellas,” truthful it would astir apt beryllium 1 of those two. [Option B would be] I resistance my raggedy butt retired of bed, telephone a mates of friends and caput to a [restaurant] not excessively acold distant from maine called El Compadre [in Hollywood].

It’s simple, there’s nary pretense, there’s nary BS. I emotion their booths, it feels similar it’s been determination [forever] and they person a unrecorded Mexican band. They’ve got a shrimp cocktail determination that, erstwhile it comes out, it’s similar a repast successful itself. It reminds maine of the shrimp cocktail astatine this small concatenation backmost successful New Zealand called Cobb & Co. that my parents utilized to instrumentality america to.

8:30 p.m: Circle backmost to that doughnut
Because I’m lone 20% to 30% societal animal, I’m done by 8:30 [p.m.]. An hr and a fractional is rather a agelong clip for maine to socialize. Then it’s [home and] much dogs. They travel successful and are allowed up connected the bed.

There’s a bully accidental that there’s immoderate benignant of sweetener astatine the extremity of the day. Probably immoderate blistery cocoa — I marque my ain due to the fact that I don’t similar it excessively sweet. It’s fundamentally conscionable cacao [powder], beverage and a small spot of sweetener. And that’s astir apt erstwhile that Sidecar doughnut [I’ve been carrying astir each day] comes in. Then it would astir apt beryllium lights retired astatine astir 10:30 p.m. — I mightiness not adjacent decorativeness a movie — due to the fact that I thin to get up beauteous aboriginal successful the morning.