How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Melissa Fumero

Melissa Fumero’s sons, astatine 5 and 8 years old, are almost astatine the property that they tin prep meal for themselves. When the clip comes, it volition beryllium a assistance for the engaged mom, who besides doubles arsenic the queen of web television.

The histrion is possibly champion known for playing the over-eager, by-the-rules Det. Amy Santiago successful the constabulary drama bid “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”

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But she calls her latest role, arsenic a “wild” suburban socialite connected NBC’s caller bid “Grosse Point Garden Society,” an “actor’s dream.”

“The acquisition of playing a socialite means you are successful the hairsbreadth and constitution seat acold longer than you are erstwhile you’re playing a detective,” said Fumero, laughing.

More seriously, the joyousness successful playing her character, Birdie, comes with digging beneath her plasticky surface.

“When we conscionable her successful the show, she’s benignant of had everything she’s wanted, and she’s a small like, ‘Now what?’ and ‘Who adjacent americium I?’ and ‘What bash I adjacent want?’” Fumero said.

Introspection is acquainted to the actor, who co-hosts a podcast called “More Better” with chap “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” alum Stephanie Beatriz. On it, they candidly sermon the tricky balancing enactment betwixt their careers and idiosyncratic lives.

But beyond that, really, Fumero assured me, determination are fewer touchstones betwixt her and Birdie. Here’s however the family-oriented histrion would really walk her perfect Sunday.

This interrogation has been lightly edited for magnitude and clarity.

7:30 a.m.: Sleep in

My ideal, perfect, fantastical Los Angeles morning, is my kids slumber in. And by slumber in, I mean they aftermath up astatine similar 7:30 a.m., which is sleeping successful in our house.

Ninety percent of the time, it’s truly sweet. They travel into the bed, they cuddle, they’re each cute. And then, conscionable arsenic you’re snuggled up astir to autumn backmost dormant due to the fact that you think, “Maybe we’re each conscionable going to slumber a small longer, they susurration successful your ear, ‘Can we get up now? I’m truly hungry. Can we spell person meal now?’” It’s truthful cute, but it’s besides truthful annoying.

9 a.m.: Tucker retired the pup

I volition instrumentality my French mastiff Rosie for a hike astatine Fryman Canyon to tucker her retired for the time and besides conscionable consciousness similar I moved connected a Sunday. It’s a beauteous hike. It’s 1 of my favorites. It’s ne'er super-crowded, and erstwhile you get to that backmost apical ridge and it’s overlooking each the mountains, and there’s eucalyptus trees … it’s truthful L.A.

10:30 a.m.: Surf’s up

Let’s accidental this Sunday is successful the summertime, truthful we’re besides going to spell to the formation for the day. Every summer, I accidental we’re gonna spell to the formation each Sunday, and past what happens is, similar astatine slightest 5 oregon six happen.

So aft the hike, I’m going to halt and drawback immoderate sandwiches and lattes from Harvest Moon, which is 1 of our favorites and we spell each the time. I’m gonna get croissants. I’m gonna get their delicious lattes. I’m gonna get a muffin for my lad and immoderate sandwiches. We’re gonna battalion a cooler, and we’re gonna thrust to Will Rogers [State] Beach, which for america is astir a half-hour drive. Some radical don’t cognize that the parking batch keeps going northbound erstwhile you participate it, and truthful that’s usually our move.

We’re similar full-on superior formation people.

I grew up going to the formation successful New Jersey and successful Miami. Then my hubby is besides Cuban, and helium grew up successful Miami, truthful helium besides grew up going to the beach. I’ve been astatine the formation with my parents for similar 8 hours, truthful we benignant of bash the aforesaid thing.

We person the chairs, we person blankets, we person a cooler and umbrellas. We besides emotion to invitation friends to the formation due to the fact that it’s ever much amusive with different families. The adults chill and possibly person a High Noon and immoderate chips portion the kids play and look for soil crabs and boogie committee and ascent the rocks. It’s ever conscionable the champion time.

3:30 p.m.: Keep the kids awake

We astir apt walk fractional the thrust location trying to support our kids from falling asleep, due to the fact that if they do, they’ll beryllium up excessively late, and we hatred that. So it’s large euphony and being like, “Hey! Don’t sleep! We’re gonna beryllium location soon. Open your eyes! Look astatine me!” Basically being the astir annoying parents connected the thrust home.

4 p.m.: Lazy surface time

We get location and depending connected however hard the kids played, it’s either going to beryllium immoderate lazy surface clip for everyone oregon sometimes they leap successful the excavation for an hr due to the fact that they’re maniacs and their vigor is boundless, particularly if they fell dormant successful the car. If they fell dormant successful the car, their asses are going successful the excavation erstwhile we get home.

5:30 p.m.: Family-friendly Italian dinner

We’re going to spell to dinner. Our 2 favourite household spots are Osteria La Buca successful Sherman Oaks oregon Pitfire Pizza successful North Hollywood.

Osteria has truly fantastic Italian food. We discovered them during the pandemic due to the fact that they did Buca Out Back, which was they transformed their small parking batch successful the backmost to outdoor dining. They had picnic tables, and they would bash a truly tiny paper of immoderate of their pizzas and their spaghetti, and they would person vino and beer. It was the archetypal amusive happening we could bash successful the pandemic, truthful that’s erstwhile we fell successful emotion with them.

The pizza astatine Pitfire is ace bomb, and I accidental that arsenic a erstwhile New Yorker. In general, L.A. has weaponry pizza now. That utilized to not beryllium true…

Pitfire Pizza is much like, brick-oven gourmet pizza. It’s smaller, and the crust is truly fluffy. But it’s inactive crispy, and determination are a batch of antithetic combinations. My kids emotion the pizza and the meatballs there. My hubby and I emotion the pizza, and we emotion the kale salad, and besides they bash treble pours of wine. So, that’s my favourite part. It’s a large outdoor seating, truthful it’s truly amusive to go. We also, a batch of times, tally into different families with kids that we know. It’s a precise family-friendly place.

8 p.m.: Kiddos’ bedtime

Then it’s caput location and chill, bash bath clip and bed, and hopefully from each the formation and the swimming the kids are retired close astatine 8 o’clock. And past possibly I tin person different solid of vino with my hubby connected the sofa and conscionable person an hr to ourselves.

9 p.m.: TV and chill

The kids autumn asleep, and we tally to commencement a amusement earlier we get excessively tired. We conscionable started “Shrinking,” and it’s a small easier due to the fact that it’s half-hour episodes.

Anytime we effort to ticker an hourlong show, it’s like, truly hard. One of america volition autumn asleep, and it’s similar we instrumentality turns. One nighttime it’s him, 1 nighttime it’s me. And past we person to determine if we privation to rewatch oregon did not a batch happen. We emotion TV truthful much. We’re conscionable truthful tired. We person small kids.