How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Niecy Nash-Betts

Niecy Nash-Betts has lone ever lived successful Los Angeles — and she’s arrogant of that.

“I’m an OG Angeleno,” says the Emmy-winning histrion who’s lived each implicit the county, from Compton to Palmdale. When I inquire her wherefore she’s stayed, she says, “The weather.” And also: “My household is present and I consciousness similar arsenic a whole, radical who are from L.A. are a batch much down to earth. It’s the transplants who travel present with immoderate weird energy. But the radical who are from L.A. are conscionable lovely.”

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.

Starting Tuesday, Nash-Betts volition prima successful Ryan Murphy’s caller Hulu show, “All’s Fair,” which follows a unit of pistillate divorcement attorneys arsenic they permission their male-dominated steadfast to motorboat their ain practice. It’s a relation she astir didn’t take.

“I was conscionable coming disconnected of doing ‘Grotesquerie,’ truthful I was like, “Ooo. It sounds similar it mightiness beryllium a batch work,” says Nash-Betts, whose credits see “Claws,” “The Rookie: Feds” and “When They See Us.” “So I waited a small spot and past I slipped successful astatine the past infinitesimal and was similar ‘OK, I’m in!’ “

She joins a star-studded glamorous formed of badass women including Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian, Glenn Close, Naomi Watts and Teyana Taylor. What was it similar moving with them?

“We don’t conscionable genuinely similar each other, but we person respect for each other,” Nash-Betts says. “And erstwhile you respect somebody’s time, their talent, their effort, you cognize that you’ll ever person 1 of your sisters to thin connected that time adjacent if you’re going done thing successful your idiosyncratic life.”

When Nash-Betts isn’t connected set, she tin beryllium recovered bopping astir the metropolis with her “hersband” singer-actor Jessica Betts, whom she joined successful 2020, and spending clip with her 3 big kids. Her cleanable Sunday successful L.A. involves hitting up the farmers market, getting a couple’s massage and ending the nighttime successful the aforesaid mode she did erstwhile she won her archetypal Emmy successful 2024.

This interrogation has been lightly edited for magnitude and clarity.

7:30 a.m.: A dilatory greeting

It depends connected however aboriginal I privation to get to the farmers market, truthful I whitethorn aftermath up astir 7:30 a.m. and past conscionable dilatory rotation the day. Make my spouse a cupful of coffee. We’re not large eaters successful the morning. Occasionally I volition get up and marque an omelet with each the things and immoderate smothered potatoes, and bring it upstairs connected a cart with immoderate juice. Now, I’m telling you the truth. “Baby, americium I telling the truth?” [Looks backmost and screams retired to Betts successful different room].

9:30 a.m. Get my essentials astatine the farmers marketplace

I’d drawback a ablution and say, “Let’s get dressed and spell outside, and spot what the satellite has for america today.” I emotion to spell by the farmers market. It’s wherever we get each of our peppers and vegetables. We similar the eggs, the caller pressed juices and we get our canine snacks from there. I similar to spell to the farmers marketplace connected Saturdays astatine the Commons successful Calabasas, but if I’m going connected a Sunday, it’s the 1 successful Westlake. I conscionable deliberation that it’s a one-stop store for everything that we’re looking for and typically the vendors are truly kind. I don’t cognize if that’s due to the fact that they privation you to bargain their worldly oregon that’s conscionable who they are, but either way, I’ll instrumentality it.

And each present and then, I mightiness find a small bop, a small sundress, a small thing to propulsion on, driblet the things backmost disconnected and past caput down into the city.

Noon: Stroll astir the Grove

If the upwind is great, we’ll instrumentality thing retired of the store that’s a convertible due to the fact that there’s thing similar the L.A. sunshine. Then depending connected what clip we tin get spa appointments, we mightiness spell to the Grove archetypal and locomotion around. I similar the shops that are there. Sometimes you mightiness get a small saccharine dainty erstwhile you’re walking around, but you tin ever impromptu determine you privation to spell to the movies and propulsion your plans a small later. It’s conscionable centrally located and it has each of the bully things that I like.

2 p.m. Couples massage and a cocktail

Next, we’d caput to the Four Seasons for a couple’s massage and a cocktail. Sometimes we’ll spell to the Four Seasons Westlake. Sometimes we’ll spell to the Four Seasons connected Doheny [Drive], but we similar to get a spa room, which is successful the back. It’s similar a suite with a fireplace and a furniture successful there. You tin relax. You person your ain backstage plunge excavation and we get our services successful the suite. We some ever get heavy tissue.

5 p.m.: Thai nutrient for dinner

Afterward, we’d thrust down to Farmhouse Thai successful West Adams due to the fact that we emotion it determination and we person travel to emotion the owner. I ever get the crab fried rice, the full crispy fish, the cupful of ramen noodles with the abbreviated rib connected apical and outpouring rolls. That’s the modular order. But if I don’t spell retired to dinner, I volition marque crabs each weekend. So sometimes, my kids volition travel implicit and eat. If I get to laic my eyes connected them during the weekend, that’s ever a bully time.

9 p.m.: Skinny dipping and champagne

When we get back, we are decidedly getting successful the pool. Skinny dipping and champagne is however we’re going to extremity the day. We bash this often. Even erstwhile I won my Emmy for “Dahmer,” radical asked, “How volition you celebrate?” and I said, “Skinny dipping and champagne.” And it conscionable truthful happened, we recovered a edifice downtown that had a full-sized swimming excavation wrong the room, truthful there’s pictures connected my Instagram of america successful that pool, skinny dipping and drinking champagne. I deliberation that night, we were astir apt drinking Perignon.

11 p.m.: Hang successful the excavation until I get sleepy

If I person to get up aboriginal connected Monday morning, past I mightiness effort to laic down astir 11 p.m., but if I don’t person to get up and beryllium anywhere, it’ll possibly beryllium astir 12:30 oregon 1 a.m.