How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Felix Mallard

What Felix Mallard has grown to admit astir surviving successful L.A. is that there’s a pouch of municipality to lucifer each vibe — adjacent if that vibe is “Aussie,” which his proudly is, having moved from Melbourne 7 years ago.

“There are a batch of places that punctual maine of home,” says the 27-year-old actor, who plays tough-shelled Marcus successful Netflix’s “Ginny & Georgia,” which returns for its 3rd play adjacent week. “The coastal cities and surely immoderate parts of Silver Lake and Echo Park consciousness precise Melbourne. They consciousness precise hipster. I mean, that connection has changed truthful overmuch — I don’t cognize if bohemian is the close connection either. But there’s a consciousness of wanting to prosecute with bully food, bully java and bully art. That benignant of happening is precise important to radical from Melbourne.”

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As helium carves his ain abstraction successful Los Angeles, Mallard has been captivating Gen Z audiences with his nuanced roles, ones that thin to resonate with young men amid each of the chiseled pressures they face. Last year, helium starred successful the romanticist play “Turtles All the Way Down,” the movie adaptation of John Green’s young big caller that explores the complexities of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He’s present acceptable to header “Nest,” a movie astir a young household whose location is invaded by deadly arachnids. (“It’s a quiescent meditation connected masculinity and being a father, wrapped up successful a truly amusive spider fearfulness movie,” helium explains. “A existent one-two punch.”)

For Mallard, a cleanable Sunday successful L.A. involves surfing (a must), playing euphony loudly (he knows his mode astir the guitar, bass, soft and drums) and trekking from West L.A. to the Eastside successful the sanction of adventure. Here’s a play by play.

This interrogation has been lightly edited for magnitude and clarity.

5:30 a.m.: Chase the waves
I’d get up aboriginal and person a surf. The comic happening with surfing successful L.A. is that you person to spell wherever the waves are good. So it could beryllium anyplace — Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, Huntington Beach, Malibu oregon Ventura. You’ve got to cheque the Surfline app and benignant of cognize the seasons arsenic well, similar however wintertime brings northbound swells and summertime brings southbound swells. But it’s a guessing game. You benignant of propulsion a dart and travel it, you know? There’s a bully unit of Aussies, Kiwis and Americans. We each effort and surf together, which is truly sweet.

8 a.m.: Post-surf burritos
Now I’ll astir apt beryllium successful a raggedy flannel apical and immoderate way pants and immoderate Birkenstocks. Really conscionable benignant of fractional asleep. But it’s mandatory aft a surf to get a meal burrito. There’s a really, truly bully spot successful Hermosa Beach called Brother’s Burritos. They don’t bash the emblematic benignant of monolithic meal burrito. Theirs travel successful 2 small bite-size burritos, which is cleanable for breakfast, you know? And past there’s different spot successful West L.A. called Sachi.LA that’s conscionable disconnected the Culver loop. It’s a truly cool, funky small java store and cafe with a small grounds store adjacent doorway — the cleanable benignant of vibe aft having a surf and being successful quality each morning. I truly effort to bask the bid that comes aft that.

9:30 a.m.: Catch up connected shows
I’m going location and catching up connected the week’s shows. Right now, I’m truly heavy into “Hacks” — obsessed with it. I consciousness similar I came to it rather precocious and I’ve had to marque up for mislaid time. And I’m really, truly loving “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney,” and “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.” I consciousness similar if you’re going to cheque successful with the quality these days, it’s got to beryllium successful a format that’s digestible. I deliberation John Oliver has a truly large mode of doing that, presenting the outrage and the absurdity successful a amusive context.

Noon: Try to find the joyousness of cooking
I’ve ever recovered it specified a situation to spot cooking arsenic the look of emotion that I cognize it is — I conscionable haven’t had the inspiration. But Jamie Oliver’s books person truly helped maine due to the fact that helium explains recipes successful a mode that thatch you the fundamentals. He’s got this cookbook, “One-Pan Wonders,” with an herb-y chickenhearted tray cook that’s truly simple. You tin enactment the vegetables astatine the bottommost of the tray — and a batch of rosemary and a batch of citrus — and enactment the chickenhearted connected the bars supra the tray, truthful that erstwhile it cooks, the chickenhearted abdominous drops into the vegetables and creates this truly beauteous spirit successful the veggies. And past you decorativeness it disconnected with immoderate citrus and olive oil. So that’s the 1 I deliberation I tin do. But if anyone has seen that recipe, they’ll cognize it’s the easiest 1 successful the book, truthful I’m not trying to brag here.

1 p.m.: Get mislaid successful the euphony
It’s ever a conflict to get up disconnected the couch, but erstwhile there’s been immoderate food, I’m disconnected to play immoderate music. There was this beautiful, truly fun, cheap, grungy rehearsal workplace successful Culver City called Exposition Studios. It would be, like, $25 oregon $30 an hour, and you could rent instruments and rent a country and conscionable play arsenic large and arsenic agelong arsenic you want. It’s not determination anymore, but determination are a fewer different places similar that astir town. I’ve gone to Pirate Studios successful West Adams a mates times, and conscionable anyplace I tin play immoderate music, really, truly loud.

I’ve got an EP of songs that I’m moving my mode through. It’s precise grungy, precise emotion-based. It’s astir apt rather angsty. There’s a batch of choler successful there, and past I deliberation possibly a batch of sadness. It’s touching connected a batch of the uglier sides of our psyche that we each have.

4 p.m.: Car amusement
Now we commencement preparing the travel east. Because it’s L.A., you can’t unreal that you’re not going to walk immoderate portion of your time successful traffic. So a podcast is simply a must. I’ll beryllium listening to Louis Theroux. I conscionable emotion however helium asks questions, however helium benignant of gives a abstraction for his guests to either showcase who they are oregon possibly unknowingly uncover parts of themselves they whitethorn not adjacent mean to. How helium holds the abstraction for that is rather impressive, and it’s a bully distraction portion you’re driving.

5 p.m.: Fuel up with burgers
We’re going to Burgerlords. They bash a truly elemental menu. You tin get a smashburger, I deliberation a vegan burger, and thing else, and they’ve got a truly bully enactment of trade beers. And it’s benignant of similar a redone mentation of a ‘50s diner inside.

7 p.m.: Let escaped astatine a punk amusement
From there, we’ll spell to Zebulon. I emotion it. I don’t spot excessively galore venues with an indoor-outdoor benignant of space. They person a large garden, truthful you tin spell and instrumentality a interruption extracurricular and past travel backmost successful and bask that alteration of pace. It’s 1 of my favourite spots successful L.A. to spell and ticker music, for sure.

The past clip I went, we saw the Spits. They’re, you know, truly due punks. And past different time, we saw a set called Spy, and they were supported by Fentanyl, Blood Stained Concrete and Yard, which is simply a Polish hardcore band. So immoderate clip we’re retired there, it’s usually for a spot much of a hardcore benignant of scene. And they’re the astir amusive gigs to spell to. Everyone’s determination to merchandise immoderate tension, immoderate energy. The fans are ever super, super, ace die-hard fans.

Midnight: Straight to bed

I’ll marque the trek location and tuck into bed. That’s usually astir midnight. I’d similar to accidental it’s earlier and that I’m, like, healthy, but I’m not.