How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Mark Duplass

Mark Duplass offers a informing earlier helium starts talking astir his perfect Sunday.

“Be prepared,” helium says. “There’s not gonna beryllium a batch of leaving the location today.”

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 actor-director-producer has settled into a comfy bushed with his wife, Katie Aselton, their 2 kids and their battalion of rambunctious dogs. For them, location is Valley Village, a vicinity the mates rapidly fell successful emotion with. “It’s quiet, ace family-friendly and precise dog-oriented,” helium says.

Duplass’ career, however, has been thing but quiet. He stars alongside Ellen Pompeo and Imogen Faith Reid successful Hulu’s “Good American Family,” a ripped-from-the-headlines play astir the Natalia Grace case. Meanwhile, his bid “The Creep Tapes” was renewed for a 2nd play connected Shudder. Duplass besides runs an autarkic movie institution with his brother, Jay, and is besides a founding spouse of the recently relaunched Vidiots, the nonprofit movie theatre and rental store successful Eagle Rock.

His nonprofit the Soul Points Fund, which helium launched with Aselton successful 2020 to enactment artists, precocious shifted gears to assistance those affected by the Los Angeles fires. “If there’s 1 happening radical successful this municipality cognize however to do, it’s tackle unexpected problems,” helium says. “It happens each time connected a movie set, truthful that benignant of reasoning is 2nd nature.”

For Duplass, Sundays are for slowing down. Here’s however he’d walk his perfect day.

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

7:30 a.m.: The T-Man rises

Generally, I get up astir 7:30. I don’t truly enactment up excessively precocious connected weekends. I’m not a large drinker. I woody with a batch of anxiousness and depression. So I person precise circumstantial rhythms that I request to obtain, which is: Get a batch of sleep. So you’re not gonna find maine connected a Sunday greeting sleeping until 11 due to the fact that I got disconnected the rails. Daddy doesn’t get disconnected the rails anymore.

First things first: Open the door, some the dogs are up. I americium known successful the location arsenic “the T-Man,” and what it stands for is “the Treat Man.” But we can’t accidental “treat,” due to the fact that if you accidental “treat,” they’ll freak the f— out. My saccharine German shepherd-husky mix, Blue, circles maine sweetly. Murphy, who’s my pitty-Staffy mix, is simply a goddamn maniac, and he’ll leap connected maine and lunge astatine me. I springiness them their perfectly disgusting beef liver treats.

Then we spell for java No. 1. I get 1 caffeinated java per time because, again, Daddy stays connected the rails. I enactment a small cocoa successful it, and I enactment a small cinnamon successful it and I enactment a small earthy sweetener successful it. Then I spot who’s up. Usually it’s Molly, my youngest, who’s 12, and Katie, my wife. My oldest daughter, Ora, who conscionable turned 17, is astir apt inactive sleeping astatine this point. Breakfast is oatmeal with caller blueberries astir each day. And past a 2nd java — going into decaf mode astatine this point, which is good for me. It’s conscionable arsenic good. I conscionable privation the hot, brownish ritual.

10 a.m.: Endorphins up

We person a small location gym, and I bash a 20-minute, brutal, fast-paced blast connected the elliptical instrumentality to marque definite I get my endorphins up and my cardiovascular strategy going.

The dogs travel successful determination with me, due to the fact that they cognize soon arsenic I’m done with that, we’re gonna spell retired for a walk. I instrumentality the 2 puppies and spell for a 40-minute walk. I usage that arsenic a bully meditation.

I usually perceive to immoderate benignant of record. I’m not a playlist guy. I similar the afloat artist’s statement. I’ll effort to propulsion thing from my past that volition link maine to feeling 16 again oregon 23 again. Sometimes that’s arsenic ridiculous arsenic the Spin Doctors grounds that I utilized to love, oregon sometimes it’s 1 of my Indigo Girls records.

11 a.m.: Hot and acold plunges

When I’m done with the walk, I’ve been heating up the blistery tub. I bash 104 degrees successful the blistery tub and 57 successful the acold plunge, which, not to dependable similar a breached record, but that’s bully for the intelligence wellness and bully for the body.

Noon: Nothing goes to waste

I’m “the Leftovers Man.” I grew up successful the suburbs of New Orleans with an utmost Depression-era mentality bestowed connected maine by my grandma and my mother. You bash not discarded food, adjacent if it’s perchance rotting successful the fridge. You conscionable fry it up astatine aggravated vigor successful the cookware and hopefully it kills the bacteria.

Toward the extremity of the week, I’ll cook a large chickenhearted and the household volition devour a 3rd of it for dinner, and past I person that to propulsion from. I support a precise strategical radical of frozen vegetables and frozen atom successful my freezer that tin beryllium paired with the chickenhearted and antithetic kinds of sauces: “Oh, possibly this tin beryllium a soy-based meal” or, “We’re going to instrumentality it much to Mexico for this one.” And I marque a large stir-fry. And usually 2 oregon 3 radical successful the household partake of that.

2 p.m.: The colony Vidiot

This is wherever the time successful my “ideal” Sunday would displacement a small bit. [On an perfect Sunday], I would spell to Vidiots for either a 2 oregon a 4 o’clock movie. Vidiots is my church. Sometimes they’re playing a family-friendly Japanime movie we each privation to spot — immoderate of the household volition travel with. Or the Mubi Microcinema successful Vidiots is showing second-run art-house movies.

I conscionable consciousness truthful bully there. It’s connected to my full life. There was a view-and-brew second-run art-house cinema successful New Orleans called Movie Pitchers that I went to for years successful precocious school. I went to assemblage successful Austin and, of course, we had Alamo Drafthouse. And I lived successful New York, truthful I’ve ever had a theatre similar that.

3:30 p.m.: A strategical acold one

You got the Fosters Freeze adjacent to Vidiots successful lawsuit you privation to bash thing nasty to yourself aft a screening. Or, 1 of my favourite things to bash is person a portion astir similar 3:30 oregon 4 o’clock astatine the pinball barroom [Walt’s] connected an bare stomach, truthful I tin get a comparatively inexpensive buzz connected without putting excessively overmuch intoxicant successful my body. And past person meal truthful it doesn’t person immoderate temper harm oregon hangover harm for me. And I tin inactive retrieve who I was — that New Orleans kid astatine 14 years aged who did truthful galore drugs. So. Many. Drugs. I can’t judge I’m here.

4:30 p.m.: Zankou and Rummikub with the folks

My parents unrecorded successful Pasadena, and we’re very, precise adjacent with them, and they’re precise adjacent with my kids. They’re successful their precocious 70s. My dad’s gonna crook 80 this year.

You ever ticker a movie and someone’s dying astatine the extremity of it, and they’re like, “Man, I conscionable privation we could person had much memories similar that 1 travel we took here’?” There’s not conscionable 1 representation with my parents and my member and his family. We person hundreds, and they’re great. So there’s nary making up for mislaid time, but I conscionable selfishly privation much of it.

All this clip we spent unneurotic has present afloat taken the unit off. It’s not like, “We’ve got to spell to Europe and bash it each up.” All we privation to bash unneurotic is: My parents travel over, I bid Zankou Chicken, and we volition play Bananagrams oregon Rummikub oregon there’s a puzzle going on. We’ll look astatine immoderate aged videos of erstwhile the kids were younger, which they emotion to do. And it’s truly boring successful the champion mode — it’s precise comforting.

7 p.m.: “Alone” successful a crowd

So I bash immoderate dishes, and Ora, my oldest, volition scatter to spell enactment connected an audition oregon speech to her boyfriend. Katie and I volition enactment connected “Alone” connected the History Channel. It’s the somewhat low-rent, Canadian mentation of “Survivor.” You larn a batch astir berries and ethical hunting. But much importantly, you person a batch of personalities who person not truly had the luxury, oregon successful immoderate cases, horror, of existentially facing themselves.

9 p.m.: Rekindling his emotion of books

When you person kids, thing comic happens, which is, erstwhile they’re precise young, you get them successful bed, and past you contention to get successful furniture yourself, due to the fact that you’re perpetually trying to store up slumber due to the fact that you cognize they’re gonna aftermath you up. My woman and I person stayed connected that schedule, adjacent though we don’t person to anymore. Our kids are 12 and 17, but we emotion conscionable getting into furniture astir 9 o’clock oregon so.

We get our books. I emotion my Kindle due to the fact that I’ve got it connected to my Los Angeles Public Library account. The nationalist room — they marque you wait. So determination volition beryllium a publication I truly privation to read, and it’ll beryllium similar an eight-week waiting list, and past erstwhile it comes in, it’s similar Christmas.

Then I spell into the bathroom, brushwood my teeth, and instrumentality my precise important 20 milligrams of citalopram — [an] SSRI — which keeps Daddy connected the rails. I’ve been taking that for 16 years. And I instrumentality a small probiotic due to the fact that I americium 48.

I accidental 5 small things arsenic I adjacent my eyes earlier I spell to furniture that I americium either grateful for oregon excited astir for the adjacent day, which is self-help 101, arsenic basal arsenic it comes, but that s— works. Just to beryllium determination successful furniture and say, “I’m gonna unfastened the door, and those frickin’ dogs are going to beryllium truthful blessed to spot me, and I’m gonna beryllium capable to bring them joy. So adjacent if the full time goes to s— tomorrow, I’m gonna person this fantastic small enactment with these small puppies that I love.” I effort to halfway myself earlier I zonk out.