How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Cary Elwes

Cary Elwes whitethorn not person been calved successful Los Angeles, but it’s astir apt just to see the autochthonal Brit an honorary Angeleno. The “Princess Bride” prima was calved successful and spent his formative years kicking astir London; helium moved to L.A. successful 1990, connected his brother’s recommendation. He met his wife, lensman Lisa Marie Kurbikoff, astatine a cookoff successful Malibu astir a twelvemonth aboriginal and the 2 joined successful 2000. A daughter, Dominique, arrived successful 2007.

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.

Elwes has spent his years successful California not conscionable establishing his household life, but besides further enmeshing himself successful Hollywood. He’s appeared successful everything from “Saw” to “Ella Enchanted,” and played a corrupt authorities cause successful a mates of “Mission Impossible” movies. His latest relation is arsenic a erstwhile bull turned backstage detective successful Peacock’s caller transgression thriller, “M.I.A.,” streaming now.

“I’ve been retired present for rather a spot present and portion [2025’s] fires were beauteous devastating — changing a batch of the scenery and people’s lives successful ways that nary of america could person imagined — I’m hopeful,” Elwes says. “I consciousness similar we’re going to physique backmost stronger and better. Things tin look acheronian sometimes, but I inactive person a spark of anticipation successful my heart.”

Here’s however Elwes would walk his perfect, hopeful Sunday successful Los Angeles.

This interrogation has been edited for magnitude and clarity.

10 a.m.: Coffee and a chat

We aftermath up astir 10 a.m., which is benignant of precocious for me. Then we’ll person our coffee. I thin to thin toward Gelson’s beans, which I find person a peculiar spirit I thin to like. I bash similar my coffee. It’s astir apt the lone addiction I truly have.

Anyway, aft I decorativeness up my coffee, I’ll typically inquire my woman and girl what they’d similar to bash for the day. My girl is 19, and she’s terrific. I ever archer my woman she’s the champion accumulation we’ll ever bash together.

Noon: Leisurely lunch

My woman is precise fond of this Italian edifice successful Woodland Hills called Casaléna. It’s close disconnected Ventura Boulevard and it’s terrific. Even their salads are extraordinary. It’s reasonably new, too, but it’s ever booked retired coagulated truthful you truly person to marque a preservation successful advance. Luckily, my woman and girl are organized, truthful if they privation to spell there, they’ll person planned ahead.

2 p.m.: Head to the movies

We similar to spell spot movies astatine the Imax astatine Universal CityWalk. The prime of that theatre is very, precise bully and seeing films connected the biggest surface imaginable is important to us.

My woman and I went connected a day to spot “Michael” successful Imax, which was sold retired and it was phenomenal. Antoine Fuqua did a large occupation and our person Colman [Domingo] was honestly transformative arsenic Joe Jackson. And Jaafar Jackson, who’s Michael’s nephew, is remarkable. It’s an bonzer film, but sold retired with radical cheering and dancing? That made it a phenomenon. People were interacting with the movie arsenic it played and it was remarkable.

If we’re not funny successful whatever’s playing astatine the time, we mightiness spell for a hike successful Tapia Park. I grew up watching “MASH” arsenic a kid and erstwhile I realized they filmed there, I thought “How blessed americium I to beryllium surviving conscionable a fewer miles from wherever specified an iconic bid was made?”

It’s a truly beauteous parkland too. If you instrumentality a agelong hike, you’ll spot waterfalls and tons of wildlife. On a bully afternoon, taking the canine retired determination for a walk? You can’t bushed it.

There’s truthful overmuch affluent past here. I retrieve going connected the Universal Studio Tour for the archetypal clip erstwhile I visited L.A. arsenic a kid. They had a happening wherever they’d prime a mates of circuit guests and the usher would enactment you connected camera successful beforehand of a bluish surface and you’d reenact a country from a movie. The circuit besides took you by the “Jaws” shark coming retired of the h2o and done an aged occidental town, and I recovered retired years aboriginal that a manager person of excavation had been making westerns determination erstwhile I was a kid and I didn’t adjacent cognize it.

That circuit was fantastic. With parting the oversea for “The Ten Commandments” and past the boulders coming down the elevation during the rockslide? Absolutely magnificent.

5 p.m.: Pick a Getty, immoderate Getty

Depending connected what clip our movie ends oregon if we conscionable extremity up going for a locomotion instead, we mightiness spell implicit to the Getty Center. We emotion it there. Usually we’ll spell successful the day — possibly we’ll person a precocious luncheon up determination — and sometimes we’ll spell to the Getty Villa instead, which luckily survived the Palisades fire.

We conscionable emotion being astir art. We’ll locomotion done the full collection, positive immoderate grounds they person connected astatine the time. We’ll spell to LACMA sometimes, too, oregon adjacent the Academy Museum to spot immoderate caller exhibits they have.

Culturally, we truly effort to support busy. Sometimes we’ll privation to beryllium astatine location and play Spite and Malice oregon ticker a amusement connected TV, but mostly I effort to spell retired and promote my household to bash the same, particularly due to the fact that we unrecorded successful specified a wonderfully diverse, taste city.

7 p.m.: Taco time

I ever permission repast decisions up to the girls, and sometimes they similar to spell retired and get tacos. We similar the food tacos astatine Escuela. It’s beauteous adjacent to Quentin Tarantino’s movie theater, the New Beverly Cinema, which we similar to spell to arsenic well. I took my girl to spot “Jaws” there, successful fact, which she loved.

9 p.m.: More movies

I’m trying to amended my girl successful the films and TV shows that I watched increasing up. She’s taking a movie past people successful school. She wants to beryllium an histrion arsenic well, truthful I privation her to person an knowing of the past of movie and past of performance, truthful I amusement her the large performances that inspired maine arsenic a kid and promote her successful that way.

When I grew up successful England, we virtually had 2 channels, some successful achromatic and white. Young radical can’t rather wrapper their heads astir that now, but it truly did marque you wage attraction due to the fact that you had to beryllium sitting successful beforehand of the tv to drawback a amusement oregon movie you wanted to watch.

I retrieve that the BBC, peculiarly connected weekends, would person matinee screenings of movies. We really had beauteous bully prime TV successful England increasing up, but they’d besides heavy absorption connected British films from the ‘40s each the mode done to the ‘60s truthful I got my acquisition from that peculiar benignant of films, similar the postwar films, ‘50s films, and the Ealing comedies. David Lean and Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson … a batch of the films they were successful oregon directed truly helped signifier who I americium today.

Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers had a precise beardown power connected maine arsenic a kid, too, truthful I truly privation to effort to stock with my girl wherefore these films meant truthful overmuch to me.

10:30 p.m.: Books successful bed

I’m not truly a late-night idiosyncratic anymore. I utilized to beryllium erstwhile I was a kid, but now, unless we’re retired connected a date, my woman and I are homebodies.