What Felix Mallard has appreciated about living in Los Angeles is that there is a pocket of the city to match each environment, even if that atmosphere is “Australian”, which is proud, having moved from Melbourne seven years ago.
“There are many places that remind me of home,” says the 27-year-old actor, who plays Marcus de Shele-Shell in “Ginny & Georgia” from Netflix, who returns for his third season next week. “The coastal cities and certainly some parts of Silver Lake and Echo Park feel very Melbourne. They feel very hipster. I mean, that word has changed so much: I don't know if Bohemian is the right word. But there is a feeling of wanting to interact with good food, good coffee and good art. That kind of thing is very important for Melbourne people.”
On Sunday Funday, the people of Los Angeles give us a play per game of their ideal Sunday in the city. Find ideas and inspiration about where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on weekends.
While carving its own space in Los Angeles, Mallard has been captivating the public of the Z generation with its nuanced papers, which tend to resonate with young men in the midst of all the different pressures they face. Last year, the romantic drama “Turtles All The Way Down” starred, the film adaptation of John Green's young adult novel that explores the complexities of compulsive obsessive disorder. Now he is ready to head “Nest”, a movie about a young family whose house is invaded by mortal arachnids. (“It is a quiet meditation on masculinity and being a father, wrapped in a really funny scratch horror movie,” he explains. “A real blow”).
For Mallard, a perfect Sunday in Los Angeles involves Surf (an essential), play music strong (He knows his way around the guitar, bass, piano and drums) and trekking from West to the east side in the name of the adventure. Here is a playing play.
This interview has been slightly edited by length and clarity.
5:30 am: Pursue the waves
I would get up early and surf. The curious thing about surfing in Los Angeles is that you have to go to where the waves are good. Then it could be anywhere: Manhattan Beach, beautiful Beach, Huntington Beach, Malibu or Ventura. You have to consult the Surfline application and also know the stations, such as the way Winter brings Swells and Summer brings South Swells. But it is a riddle game. You arrive a dart and follow it, you know? There is a good team of Australians, Kiwis and American. We all try to sail together, which is really sweet.
8 am: burritos after the surface
Now I will probably be in an irregular flannel lid and some track pants and some birkestocks. Really just a little asleep. But it is mandatory after a surf to get a breakfast burrito. There is a very, very good place in beautiful Beach called Burritos of the brother. They do not make the typical massive breakfast type. Theirs come in two small burritos the size of a bite, which is perfect for breakfast, you know? And then there is another place in West Sachi.la That is right next to the Culver loop. It is a small cafeteria and cafeteria really great and funky with a small album store next door, the perfect type of environment after having a surf and being in nature all morning. I really try to enjoy the peace after that.
9:30 am: Put on the shows
I'm going home and I catch up with the shows of the week. At this time, I am really deeply “hacks”, obsessed with him. I feel that I got to that quite late and I had to recover lost time. And I'm really loving “Everybody's Live with John Mulaney” and “Last week with John Oliver.” I feel that if you are going to register with the news these days, you have to be in a digestible format. I think John Oliver has an excellent way to do it, presenting outrage and absurd in a fun context.
Noon: try to find the joy of cooking
I have always found a challenge to see the kitchen as the expression of love that I know is, I simply have not had inspiration. But Jamie Oliver's books have really helped me because he explains the recipes in a way that shows you the foundations. He has this kitchen book, “he asks a pan”, with a grass chicken tray oven and is really simple. You can place the vegetables at the bottom of the tray, and a lot of rosemary and a lot of lemon, and place the chicken in the bars on the tray, so that when it is cooked, the chicken fat falls into the vegetables and creates this really lovely flavor in the vegetables. And then you finish it with a little lemon and olive oil. So that's what I think I can do. But if someone has seen that recipe, they will know that it is the easiest in the book, so I'm not trying to show off here.
1 pm: get lost in music
It is always difficult to get up from the couch, but once there has been some food, I'm going to play music. There was a beautiful, very fun, cheap and dirty general trial study in Culver City called Exhibition Studios. It would be, as, $ 25 or $ 30 per hour, and could rent instruments and rent a room and touch so strong and the time you want. He is no longer there, but there are some other places like that in the city. I have gone to Pirate Studios In West Adams a couple of times, and just anywhere that can play music, very, very strong.
I have an EP of songs I am working for. It is very dirty, very based on emotion. It is probably quite distressed. There is a lot of going there, and then I think maybe a lot of sadness. Many of the most flavals of our psyche that we all have is touched.
4 pm: car entertainment
Now we begin to prepare the trip east. Because it is the, you cannot pretend that you will not spend part of your day in traffic. Then a podcast is essential. I will be listening to Louis Theroux. I love how you ask questions, how it gives a space for your guests to show who they are or perhaps, without knowing it, they reveal parts of themselves that do not even intend. The way it maintains the space for that is quite impressive, and it is a good distraction while driving.
5 PM: Fuel with hamburgers
Let's Burgers. They make a really simple menu. You can get a Smashburger, I think that a vegan hamburger and something else, and have a very good selection of artisanal beers. And it is like a renewed version of a 50 -year restaurant inside.
7 pm: release in a punk show
From there, we will go to Cebulon. I love it. I do not see too many places with a type of interior-exterior space. They have a large garden, so you can go and take a break outside and then return and enjoy that change of rhythm. It is one of my favorite places in Los Angeles to go to see music, sure.
The last time I went, we saw the spit. They are, you know, really adequate punk. And then on another occasion, we saw a band called Espia, and were supported by fentanil, concrete stained with blood and patio, which is a Polish hardcore band. So, every time we are there, it is usually a little more than an unconditional scene. And they are the most fun concerts to go. Everyone is there to release some tension, some energy. Fans are always super, super and super stales fans.
Midnight: directly to bed
I will make the walk home and get in bed. That is usually around midnight. I would like to say that it is before and that I am, as, healthy, but I am not.
