How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Meredith Hagner

About 5 years ago, erstwhile Meredith Hagner (whose characters scope from clueless to maniacal successful “Search Party,” “Vacation Friends” and “Bad Monkey,” to sanction conscionable a few) afloat committed to giving up her rent-controlled Williamsburg flat successful Brooklyn, N.Y., to marque a location connected the West Coast, she thought she knew precisely wherever she wanted to live.

“I told my hubby [actor Wyatt Russell, lad of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn] I’d effort retired L.A., but I’ll lone bash the Eastside due to the fact that that’s the closest to [where I lived successful New York City]. And helium was like, ‘When we person kids, you’re astir apt going to privation to determination to the Westside.’ And I was like, ‘No,no, no.’”

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Now, arsenic the Westside-dwelling ma to sons who are 11 months and 3½, she’s sold. “I can’t judge I thought I was taking 1 for the squad by moving to the Westside,” she said. “It’s large implicit here, and we’re conscionable a two-minute thrust from [Wyatt’s] family.”

Before digging into her perfect (and Westside-centered) Sunday itinerary, I asked which of the characters she’s played mightiness person an L.A. play to rival her own. She instantly pointed to her latest relation arsenic Neve, sister to Reese Witherspoon’s Margot successful the Nicholas Stoller movie (also starring Will Ferrell) “You’re Cordially Invited,” which started streaming Jan. 30 connected Prime Video .

“Oh, God. I’ve played truthful galore tragic, messed-up people,” Hagner said “[Neve] is the archetypal mentally unchangeable idiosyncratic I deliberation I’ve ever played. I’d beryllium making these benignant of bizarre show choices, and our director, Nick Stoller, would beryllium like, ‘No, she’s truly a together, steadfast person.’ So I deliberation she would astir apt person the astir beauteous Sunday. She has a fantastic relationship, and she’d astir apt bash thing classy and incredible. And I would astir apt privation to person her Sunday.”

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

7:30 a.m.: Quaff java from Canada
In my cleanable day, my very, precise tiny babe and my toddler would slumber until the blissful hr of 7:30 a.m. They similar to aftermath up precise early, but successful my hypothetical day, my hubby and I get up earlier than them, which has virtually ne'er happened, but we’re gonna spell with it, and we person coffee. We’re precise obsessed with our greeting coffee. It’s from a java store that we emotion truthful overmuch that we recovered erstwhile we were moving successful Calgary, Canada. It’s called Monogram [Coffee]. We’re java snobs, truthful we person the beans shipped down and we person a small Breville espresso machine. And Wyatt makes maine my java successful the morning. Then I unfastened each the doors and the windows and enactment a grounds connected and we person a small quiescent coffee. Then the kids get up.

9 a.m.: Grab immoderate griddle cakes
We utilized to spell to Patrick’s Roadhouse for breakfast, but sadly, it’s closed, which is devastating due to the fact that it’s ever been a staple. So we’d spell to either Breakfast by Salt’s Cure for pancakes — which is 1 of my favourite spots — oregon Huckleberry successful Santa Monica. At Salt’s Cure, I get the OG griddle cakes. They’re my favourite happening successful the full world, and they’re ridiculously good. That with a broadside of sausage is the cosmopolitan order.

10:30 a.m.: Find immoderate flowers, crank immoderate tunes
I emotion to bash angiosperm arrangements, truthful I’ll spell to [a local] angiosperm vendor and get a ton of flowers. And past I spell location and laic them each out, and past enactment connected immoderate truly large euphony portion my kiddo helps maine [arrange them]. I perceive to a batch of Gillian Welch, and I emotion Mazzy Star — I can’t play capable Mazzy Star. And I ever person the doors open. We’ll bash this for astir an hr oregon truthful portion the babe takes a nap.

1 p.m.: Make a meal, play with the boys
I similar to bash immoderate benignant of large meal, similar a long-cooking roast — I precocious did braised abbreviated ribs — oregon I’ll bash this truly yummy Thai coconut meatball soup. I’ll bash thing similar that, and erstwhile I’m done, I’ll enactment it successful the fridge. And we’ll devour it aboriginal oregon the adjacent day. Then we’ll each spell retired and play, possibly bring immoderate tennis rackets, conscionable bent out. And I’ll person a small [outdoors] infinitesimal with the boys.

3 p.m.: Sip astatine sunset
In my hypothetical Sunday, my in-laws are coming implicit to babysit, and they volition beryllium babysitting portion we get ready. Then my hubby and I volition enactment immoderate achromatic vino successful our Yeti [wine tumblers] and spell backmost to the beach. A mates blocks from our house, there’s an underpass nether [Pacific Coast Highway] wherever you tin spell to the beach. Then we’ll beryllium connected the formation and ticker the sunset and person a small cocktail.

5 p.m.: Wander to dinner
Then we would awkwardly enactment our Yetis determination and spell person meal astatine either Muse oregon the Golden Bull. Muse is 1 of the champion meals I’ve had. They conscionable opened, and it’s similar this small jewel container [of a] edifice wherever everything you devour is the champion happening you’ve ever had successful your life. The rack of lamb is insane. And the Golden Bull is 1 of those staple vicinity restaurants. There’s a occurrence going successful the winter, truthful it’s the champion cozy place. If you spell there, you person to beryllium astatine the barroom and get the premier rib and the Yorkshire pudding and a mezcal margarita. I highly urge [it].

7 p.m.: Gather the household astir the fire
We’d beryllium location successful clip to bash bedtime [for the kids] and person household clip hanging retired with my in-laws, which is usually what we bash connected a Sunday evening. The dudes volition enactment the boys to bed, and past we’ll bent retired successful beforehand of the fire.

9:30 p.m.: Take successful a small TV earlier lights out
I ne'er spell to furniture past 9:30 unless I truly privation to consciousness similar canine [crap] the adjacent day. In my hypothetical, I wouldn’t autumn dormant wrong 2 minutes, which I deliberation I’ve done each clip I’ve tried to ticker thing for the past 2 years. Last night, we started watching this caller documentary astir the Stanford Prison Experiment [“The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth”] that a person of ours, Juliette Eisner, directed, and it was truthful bully and truthful creepy. We’re besides watching [the Netflix series] “Nobody Wants This,” which I truly like. A shout-out to my person Justine Lupe, who plays the sister. She’s truthful good, and it’s amusive to ticker your friends.