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

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

“Being from the South, erstwhile you first 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 pinch Halle Berry — the likewise named character she’s often mistaken for — connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In Sunday Funday, L.A. group springiness america a play-by-play of their perfect Sunday about town. Find ideas and inspiration connected wherever to go, what to eat and really to bask life connected the weekends.

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

These days, Bailey is 1 of the celebrities group would beryllium thrilled to spot strolling down Hollywood Boulevard. She’s built a profession that bridges music, TV and film: By 13, she and her sister Chloe Bailey — together 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 domiciled she’s recently been reflecting on.

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

“It felt bully to play a young female who was grown, but still discovering herself,” she says. “I felt for illustration I was playing the principle of the Halle who is uncovering herself now.”

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

This question and reply has been lightly edited and condensed for magnitude and clarity.

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

I emotion mornings. I time off my curtains unfastened while I slumber because I for illustration erstwhile the sun wakes maine up. We each doomscroll, which is benignant of bad to say, but the first point I cheque is my phone. Then I person mommy duties correct astatine 8 a.m. Sometimes earlier [Halo] wakes up, I get a chance to do immoderate things for myself for illustration spell extracurricular and beryllium successful the sun for immoderate meditation aliases stretching. I don’t get to do it each day, but I try. Or I’ll make immoderate beverage aliases 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 do meal correct away. I don’t cognize why I’m ace into boiled eggs correct now [laughs]. But I emotion a boiled ovum successful the greeting pinch either avocado aliases hash browns. My babe loves hash browns too. I effort to make a balanced meal and past from location it’s benignant of statement time.

We’ve been blasting the caller Jill Scott medium and it’s really cool really the euphony you play successful your location could conscionable alteration the mood, the vibe and bring bully power into the abstraction that you’re in. And connected a Sunday, I don’t cognize if it’s conscionable because of the measurement 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 aliases organizing toys, aliases making judge the bath is straight, aliases washing apparel while the euphony is blasting and we’re dancing around, having fun.

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

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

I mightiness moreover spell into the workplace if I’m proceeding a melody successful my caput aliases prime up my guitar. Sometimes I mightiness return a nap too, and that feels really bully connected a Sunday.

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

If I consciousness up for leaving the house, we’ll spell for a walk, to the parkland aliases possibly moreover a sunset hike. I’ve ever been a quality woman and I consciousness for illustration it conscionable grounds me, and I’m capable to halfway myself, particularly for the commencement of a caller week. There’s a batch of really beautiful hikes successful California, but I’ve recovered ones that are easy and safe to return a babe connected truthful I’m not stressing if he’s moving up of maine aliases down me. On a Sunday, you conscionable want to rest, truthful you’re not trying to do a full-blown workout. Sometimes we’ll get halfway done and past we’ll move backmost and spell location [laughs].

Near Studio City, there’s a really bully 1 called Fryman [Canyon]. It’s difficult successful the beginning, but arsenic you get higher it gets easier and you spot the view, and you’re conscionable like, “I could do this.” We precocious went to Point Dume, which I had ne'er been to, but I saw the position connected TikTok. It’s a really beautiful formation hike successful Malibu and I emotion it there. The hike up is ace easy, but there’s a section 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 boy is pinch maine that night, we do a full nosy toys successful the bath type of vibe. But if it’s a solo night, it’s for illustration candles, lavender bubbles, lights are dim, jazz euphony is playing successful the background, for illustration 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 for illustration Lucia, which is simply a Caribbean edifice successful Hollywood. I deliberation the first clip I went, they had a really bully oxtail mac and cheese. When I went backmost the paper had changed and I ordered the naughty chicken, which was besides good. Also, I’ve been loving the Blue Note recently. I saw Esperanza Spalding location past year.

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

Sometimes I effort to unit myself to move disconnected each screens, each phones and spell to furniture because I request the sleep. It’s either that aliases I’m up watching something. I conscionable really for illustration watching things that make maine consciousness for illustration I could laughter and I don’t person to deliberation about it. I get really emotionally invested successful shows. If I effort to watch “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.