How to have the best Sunday in L.A, according to Halle Bailey

When Halle Bailey moved from Georgia to Los Angeles arsenic a wide-eyed preteen astir 15 years ago, the metropolis felt similar a wonderland of possibility.

“Being from the South, erstwhile you archetypal travel to L.A., you’re like, ‘Hollywood. Wow. This is wherever each the celebrities are,’” says the Grammy-nominated vocalist and actress. At immoderate moment, she thought she mightiness transverse paths with Halle Berry — the likewise named histrion she’s often mistaken for — connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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.

But aft surviving successful the metropolis for a while, Bailey, present 26, says she realized L.A. is made up of each sorts of antithetic pockets — ones “where radical are truly Hollywood, bougie” and others “where radical are chill, similar hippies,” she says. Her favourite neighborhoods are Silver Lake, Venice and “places wherever radical are conscionable like, yeah, 1 love,” she says, laughing.

These days, Bailey is 1 of the celebrities radical would beryllium thrilled to spot strolling down Hollywood Boulevard. She’s built a vocation that bridges music, TV and film: By 13, she and her sister Chloe Bailey — unneurotic known arsenic Chloe x Halle — had signed to Beyoncé’s label; she’s earned six Grammy nominations (including 1 for her debut solo medium released past fall); and she played young Nettie successful “The Color Purple” and starred arsenic Ariel successful Disney’s live-action “The Little Mermaid,” a blockbuster relation she’s precocious been reflecting on.

Bailey’s adjacent venture? Starring successful her archetypal romanticist comedy, Universal’s “You, Me & Tuscany,” which hits theaters April 10. She plays Anna, a young pistillate who impulsively crashes astatine a bare Italian villa by pretending to beryllium the owner’s fiancée.

“It felt bully to play a young pistillate who was grown, but inactive discovering herself,” she says. “I felt similar I was playing the essence of the Halle who is uncovering herself now.”

On her cleanable Sunday successful L.A., Bailey would person a time of amusive with her 2-year-old son, Halo. Here’s what they’d do.

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

7:30 a.m.: Wake up and leap into mommy duties

I emotion mornings. I permission my curtains unfastened portion I slumber due to the fact that I similar erstwhile the prima wakes maine up. We each doomscroll, which is benignant of atrocious to say, but the archetypal happening I cheque is my phone. Then I person mommy duties close astatine 8 a.m. Sometimes earlier [Halo] wakes up, I get a accidental to bash immoderate things for myself similar spell extracurricular and beryllium successful the prima for immoderate meditation oregon stretching. I don’t get to bash it each day, but I try. Or I’ll marque immoderate beverage oregon a smoothie and conscionable person a infinitesimal of gratitude for waking up that day.

8:30 a.m.: Crank up the euphony

Once Halo is up, we bash meal close away. I don’t cognize wherefore I’m ace into boiled eggs close present [laughs]. But I emotion a boiled ovum successful the greeting with either avocado oregon hash browns. My babe loves hash browns too. I effort to marque a balanced meal and past from determination it’s benignant of enactment time.

We’ve been blasting the caller Jill Scott medium and it’s truly chill however the euphony you play successful your location tin conscionable alteration the mood, the vibe and bring bully vigor into the abstraction that you’re in. And connected a Sunday, I don’t cognize if it’s conscionable due to the fact that of the mode I was raised, but automatically I think, “OK, I request to straighten up for the week. I request to get the location reset.” So possibly I’m cleaning up the room oregon organizing toys, oregon making definite the bath is straight, oregon washing apparel portion the euphony is blasting and we’re dancing around, having fun.

12 p.m.: Solo clip portion the babe naps

I’ll instrumentality a luncheon break. If I’m successful the cooking mood, I emotion making comfortableness nutrient similar chickenhearted and atom with cabbage and mac and cheese. Something that is conscionable lukewarm and comfy. If I’m not doing that, I’m ordering Wing Stop oregon Chipotle. I would chill extracurricular for a portion until my son’s nap time, which is astir 12:30 p.m. He’ll slumber until similar 3:30 p.m., truthful past I person 2 hours to myself and sometimes I bash nothing. Sometimes I conscionable request to beryllium down and I’ll beryllium connected my telephone connected TikTok oregon I’ll ticker a show. I precocious binged the caller “Love is Blind” season. I besides started watching “Real Housewives” again, but, like, the opening seasons. I truly emotion the amusement “My Strange Addiction.” It’s conscionable truthful hilarious to me. Those are immoderate guilt-free shows that I crook connected and my encephalon tin crook off.

I mightiness adjacent spell into the workplace if I’m proceeding a melody successful my caput oregon prime up my guitar. Sometimes I mightiness instrumentality a nap too, and that feels truly bully connected a Sunday.

4 p.m.: Go connected an casual sunset hike

If I consciousness up for leaving the house, we’ll spell for a walk, to the parkland oregon possibly adjacent a sunset hike. I’ve ever been a quality miss and I consciousness similar it conscionable grounds me, and I’m capable to halfway myself, particularly for the commencement of a caller week. There’s a batch of truly beauteous hikes successful California, but I’ve recovered ones that are casual and harmless to instrumentality a babe connected truthful I’m not stressing if he’s moving up of maine oregon down me. On a Sunday, you conscionable privation to rest, truthful you’re not trying to bash a full-blown workout. Sometimes we’ll get halfway done and past we’ll crook backmost and spell location [laughs].

Near Studio City, there’s a truly bully 1 called Fryman [Canyon]. It’s hard successful the beginning, but arsenic you get higher it gets easier and you spot the view, and you’re conscionable like, “I tin bash this.” We precocious went to Point Dume, which I had ne'er been to, but I saw the presumption connected TikTok. It’s a truly beauteous formation hike successful Malibu and I emotion it there. The hike up is ace easy, but there’s a tract of flowers that you locomotion done to get to the viewpoint wherever everyone takes pictures overlooking the beach.

6:30 p.m.: Bath time

I emotion a bubble bath. If my lad is with maine that night, we bash a full amusive toys successful the bath benignant of vibe. But if it’s a solo night, it’s similar candles, lavender bubbles, lights are dim, jazz euphony is playing successful the background, similar Billie Holiday, and that is the eventual reset.

7:30 p.m.: Dinner and a show

If I person a sitter, I mightiness spell retired to dinner. I similar Lucia, which is simply a Caribbean edifice successful Hollywood. I deliberation the archetypal clip I went, they had a truly bully oxtail mac and cheese. When I went backmost the paper had changed and I ordered the jerk chicken, which was besides good. Also, I’ve been loving the Blue Note recently. I saw Esperanza Spalding determination past year.

10 p.m.: Watch thing low-stakes earlier bed

Sometimes I effort to unit myself to crook disconnected each screens, each phones and spell to furniture due to the fact that I request the sleep. It’s either that oregon I’m up watching something. I conscionable truly similar watching things that marque maine consciousness similar I tin laughter and I don’t person to deliberation astir it. I get truly emotionally invested successful shows. If I effort to ticker “The Pitt” astatine the extremity of the day, it feels truthful emotionally exhausting. During the time is OK, but astatine nighttime, I conscionable request to laugh.