How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Kat Dennings

To tv viewers, Kat Dennings is astir apt champion known for playing down-on-her-luck characters — archetypal successful a six-season tally arsenic Max Black connected the CBS sitcom “Two Broke Girls,” and, much recently, arsenic Tim Allen’s estranged-but-reunited girl connected ABC’s “Shifting Gears,” which aired its first-season finale earlier this period (all episodes are disposable for streaming connected Hulu).

But to perceive her archer it, there’s hardly a down-on-your-luck facet of her real-life perfect Sunday itinerary, which starts with treble belly rubs for her 2 cats, ends with drifting disconnected to “Columbo” and includes an eclectic lineup of museums, rare-book-browsing and meal prepared to the strains of unrecorded soft euphony (by instrumentalist hubby Andrew W.K.) successful between.

After she described her perfect day, I asked Dennings which existent co-star mightiness marque the champion Sunday wingman. She answered without hesitation.

“I’d unit Tim Allen to instrumentality maine astir municipality and spot what helium does connected a Sunday,” she said. “I consciousness similar helium astir apt conscionable tinkers with his beauteous vintage car collection. But who knows. Maybe helium does goat yoga. He’s truly a bloomin’ bulb of man. There are truthful galore sides to him and truthful galore layers.”

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

10 a.m.: Cuddle with the cats
Usually my small “soup cats” [Lentil and Barley] volition aftermath maine up and I’ll bash our adorable greeting routine: They’ll some rotation implicit connected their backs, and I’ll bash a treble belly hitch and cuddles. It’s the champion [because] they’re truthful affectionate. Then I’ll provender them and lavation their dishes. I got them done a feline rescue called Tail Town Cats successful Pasadena; it has a feline cafe wherever you tin beryllium successful a country and conscionable get covered successful cats. It’s virtually the champion happening ever. And they’re unfastened connected Sundays, truthful that could beryllium thing to do.

10:30 a.m.: Down immoderate decaf
I really stopped drinking caffeine — overmuch to my chagrin — for my anxiousness issue, truthful I’ll marque myself a small cookware of decaf. I’ve got a Moccamaster which is simply a fantastic java shaper that’s truthful casual to use. My champion person Brenda Song suggested it to me, and she’s precise benignant A and ever researches everything, truthful I cognize that if she suggests something, it’s the champion one.

[Coffeewise] I similar Peet’s Major Dickason’s [Blend] decaf and their French Roast [decaf] is besides truly good. So by 10:30 [a.m.] I’m having my bittersweet decaf java ... I’ll enactment a small oat beverage successful determination with a small maple syrup. It tastes truly good.

11 a.m.: Go for the garden
My favourite happening to bash connected a acold greeting is to instrumentality my java retired to the plot — I’m a large gardener — and look astatine my herb plants and bash immoderate of the small things that request to beryllium done: weeding, staking up the plants, clipping immoderate leaves astatine the bottommost of the plant. And, if I’m feeling truly indulgent, I’ll enactment connected an audiobook portion I garden. A large audiobook for for gardening — a large 1 play — is “Howl’s Moving Castle” [by Diana Wynne Jones]. I urge it for anybody doing anything.

Noon: Jet implicit to the Museum of Jurassic Technology
Then my hubby and I volition get acceptable for the time and determine wherever we privation to spell to bash thing fun. One enactment would beryllium the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. But my favourite spot successful [the] Los Angeles [area] is the Museum of Jurassic Technology [in Culver City].

It’s a depository but it’s an oddity; it’s benignant of science-based, but there’s besides folklore worldly successful there. It’s champion if you instrumentality idiosyncratic without telling them what it is, and past it conscionable benignant of blows their caput erstwhile they get there. I’m ever filled with childlike wonder, adjacent though I’ve been determination a cardinal times by now.

You spell [through the museum] from the bottommost [floor] to the apical [floor], and astatine the apical there’s a beverage country with this large brass samovar. And this woman — usually it’s a woman — gives you a small cupful of virtually the best-tasting, scalding-hot beverage you’ve ever had successful your beingness on with this small sheet of almond cookies. To marque it adjacent much amazing, there’s an aviary determination wherever you tin instrumentality your beverage and beryllium and look astatine these birds successful this fairy-tale environment.

2 p.m.: Find immoderate fusilli
My hubby and I don’t truly devour successful the greeting truthful by present we’d astir apt beryllium ace hungry. We’d caput to whichever Jon and Vinny’s determination we’re closest to astatine the time. I’m a large instrumentality of their spicy fusilli. I could teardrop down an full sheet of pasta with nary problem. So I’d astir apt bash that.

3 p.m.: Browse immoderate mind-blowing books
If I’m feeling truly luxurious I’ll caput to Mystery Pier Books, Inc. conscionable disconnected Sunset [Boulevard successful West Hollywood] adjacent Book Soup. It’s precise hidden and not a emblematic bookstore. It’s a postulation of books owned by these 2 fantastic men who are conscionable the astir knowledgeable ever, and they person archetypal editions and things similar that. It’s not affordable — I’ve ne'er bought thing much than a tote container — but if you had a spare $30,000 you could bargain a archetypal variation of thing with a missive from Einstein successful the beforehand of it. They person things that are conscionable mind-blowing.

4 p.m.: Grab immoderate groceries
If it’s a emblematic weekend, I would person planned a look I privation to marque for dinner, truthful I’d spell to Gelson’s and prime up ingredients for that oregon thing to barbecue, depending connected the season. The past look I made that was worthy of printing retired and putting successful my look container was the Creamy Italian Sausage Soup from Salt & Lavender.

I bash emotion to market shop, truthful I tin truly termination immoderate clip successful [Gelson’s]. My favourite is astir apt the caller nutrient section. I’m a existent stickler [for perfectly ripe fruit], truthful I’ll conscionable interaction each the melons similar a [strange] person.

5:30 p.m.: Some supper-prep piano
When we get location I’ll commencement [working connected preparing] dinner, and my hubby volition astir apt play soft for a mates of hours due to the fact that helium is simply a real-deal pianist and plays for hours each day. It’s truly astonishing to perceive Bach being exquisitely played successful different room; I’m precise spoiled by that. And past I usually similar to person meal acceptable astir 7:30 p.m.

8:30 p.m.: Peddle connected the Peloton
If I’m truly being motivated — which I usually americium not — I’ll get connected the Peloton [bike] for a 30-minute class. Or, depending connected however the time went, possibly I would person done it earlier. My favourite teacher is Christine D’Ercole, who’s conscionable perfectly the best. She’s a champion bicyclist. I don’t [typically] bash good with extreme-positivity workouts, and she’s positive, but it’s besides a precise affectional experience. I’ve cried successful those classes.

9 p.m.: Learn lines
Then, if I’m moving the adjacent day, I’ll instantly get successful furniture and obsessively larn my lines for the adjacent day. After I bash that for astir 2 hours, my hubby volition tally lines with maine doing each the voices of everybody else. He does a bully Tim Allen content and helium does a large Seann William Scott content that I cognize Seann is conscionable dying to perceive — which helium volition 1 day.

11 p.m.: Catch immoderate “Columbo”
The nicest happening that benignant of lulls maine to slumber is erstwhile my hubby is watching TV and I autumn dormant to him doing that. “Columbo” is our favourite show. If I didn’t autumn dormant to that, I mightiness effort to beryllium heroic and work a carnal book. I conscionable started speechmaking “So Thirsty” by Rachel Harrison. I’m lone 5 pages successful but I already emotion it.