Mark Duplass offers a warning before starting to talk about his ideal Sunday.
“Be ready,” he said. “There will not be much departure from the house today.”
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The actor-director-producer settled in a comfortable pace with his wife, Katie Aselton, their two children and their exuberant dog package. For them, the house is Valley Village, a neighborhood whose couple quickly fell in love. “It's calm, super family and very focused on dogs,” he says.
Duplass's career, however, was anything but silent. He plays alongside Ellen Pompeo and Imogen Faith Reid in the “Good American Family” of Hulu, a drama torn apart by the head of the head on the Natalia Grace affair. Meanwhile, his series “The Creed Tapes” was renewed for a second season on Shudder. Duplass also manages a Independent film company With his brother, Jay, and is also a founding partner of the newly relaunched vidiots, non -profit cinema and the rental shop in Eagle Rock.
Its non -profit organization The point fund of the soulThat he launched with Aselton in 2020 to support the artists, recently changed speed to help people affected by Los Angeles fires. “If there is one thing that people in this city know how to do, it solves unexpected problems,” he said. “It happens every day on a shoot, so this kind of reflection is second nature.”
For Duplass, Sundays are to slow down. Here's how he would spend his ideal day.
This interview was slightly modified and condensed for duration and clarity.
7:30 am: T-man increases
Generally, I get up around 7:30 am. I don't really stand too late on weekends. I am not a big drinker. I treat with great anxiety and depression. So I have very specific rhythms that I need to get, that is to say: sleep a lot. So you won't find me a sleeping Sunday morning until 11 years old because I got off the rails. Dad does not leave the rails.
First of all: open the door, the two dogs are in place. I am known in the house like “The T-Man”, and what it represents is “The Treat Man”. But we cannot say “treat”, because if you say “treat”, they panic the F-Out. My sweet mix of German shepherd, blue, turns me slowly. Murphy, which is my mixture of Pitty-Staffy stadium, is a fucking maniac, and it will jump on me and will give me on it. I give them their absolutely disgusting beef liver treats.
Then we are going to have a coffee n ° 1. I have a coffee coffee per day because, once again, Dad remains on the rails. I put a little chocolate there, and I put a little cinnamon there and I put a little raw sugar. Then I see who is standing. Usually, it is Molly, my youngest, who is 12 years old, and Katie, my wife. My eldest daughter, Ora, who has just been 17, probably still sleeps at this stage. Breakfast is oatmeal with fresh blueberries almost every day. And then a second coffee – switch to Décaf mode at this stage, which is good for me. It's just as good. I just want the hot and brown ritual.
10 am: endorphins
We have a little gymnasium at home, and I make a sudden and fast 20 -minute explosion on the elliptical machine to make sure my endorphins get up and my cardiovascular system.
The dogs come there with me, because they know that if I am done with that, we will go out for a walk. I take both puppies and I walk 40 minutes. I use it as a beautiful meditation.
I usually listen to a kind of recording. I am not a guy from the playlist. I like the declaration of the complete artist. I will try to pull something from my past which will connect me again 16 or 23. Sometimes, it is as ridiculous as the spin doctors records that I loved, or sometimes it is one of my indigo girls discs.
11 am: Hot and cold rain
When I finished with the walk, I heated the bathtub. I do 104 degrees in the whirlpool and 57 in the cold dive, which, does not look like a broken record, but it is good for mental health and good for the body.
Noon: Nothing is wasted
I am “the man of the remains”. I grew up in the suburbs of New Orleans with an extreme mentality of the era of depression which was granted to me by my grandmother and my mother. You do not waste food, even if it is potentially rotten in the refrigerator. You just fry with intense heat in the pan and I hope it kills bacteria.
Towards the end of the week, I will cook a big chicken and the family will eat a third for dinner, then I have it to shoot. I keep a very strategic group of frozen vegetables and frozen rice in my freezer which can be associated with chicken and different types of sauces: “Oh, maybe this can be a soy-based meal” or “we are going to take it more in Mexico for it.” And I have a big jumper. And generally two or three people in the family participate.
2 p.m.: The Vidiot village
This is where the day in my “ideal” Sunday would move a little. (An ideal Sunday), I would go to Vidiots For a film of 2 or 4 hours. Vidiots is my church. Sometimes they play a family Japanese film that we all want to see – part of the family will come with it. Or the Mubi Microcinema in Vidiots shows second row art films.
I feel so well there. It is linked to all my life. There was an artistic cinema of second row in New Orleans entitled Pitchers of films to which I went for years to high school. I went to university in Austin and, of course, we had Alamo Drafthouse. And I lived in New York, so I always had a theater like that.
3.30 p.m.: Strategic cold
You have it Fosters Greeze Besides the vidiots in case you want to do something bad for you after a projection. Or, one of my favorite things to do is to have a drink like 3:30 or 4 hours at Pinball Bar (Walt's) on an empty stomach, so that I can get a relatively cheap buzz without putting too much alcohol in my body. And then say so that he has no mood damage or a lot of wooden damage. And I still remember who I was – this child from New Orleans at 14 who did so many medicines. SO. A lot. Drugs. I cannot believe that I am here.
4:30 p.m.: Zankou and Rimyub with people
My parents live in Pasadena, and we are very, very close with them, and they are very close to my children. They were in the late 1970s. My father was 80 years old this year.
You have already watched a film and someone is dying at the end, and it is said: “Dude, I would just like that we could have more memories like this trip we made here”? “There is not only one memory with my parents and my brother and his family. We have hundreds and they are great. So there is no time to waste time, but I just want to selfishly.
During all this time, we spent together, has now completely removed the pressure. It's not like: “We have to go to Europe and do everything.” All we want to do together is: my parents come, I order Zankou chickenAnd we will play bananagrams or the player where there is an ongoing puzzle. We will examine the old videos of when the children were younger, which they like to do. And it's really boring in the best way – it's very comforting.
7 PM: “alone” in a crowd
So I do dishes, and Ora, my older on, will disperse to go to work on a hearing or speak to his boyfriend. Katie and I are going to put “alone” on the history chain. This is the Canadian version slightly up to “Survivor”. You learn a lot about berries and ethical hunting. But more importantly, you have many personalities who have not really had luxury, or in some cases, horror, to face the existential.
9 p.m.: Reviving your love for books
When you have children, something funny happens, that is to say when they are very young, you put them in bed, then you run to bed yourself, because you are constantly trying to put sleep because you know they will wake up. My wife and I stayed on this calendar, even if we no longer have it. Our children are 12 and 17 years old, but we just like to sleep around 9 am.
We get our books. I love my kindle because I connected it to my Los Angeles Public Library account. The public library – They make you wait. So there will be a book that I really want to read, and it will be like an eight -week waiting list, then when it happens, it's like Christmas.
Then, I get into the bathroom, I brush my teeth and take my 20 milligrams very large from Citalopram – (an) SSRI – which keeps dad on the rails. I have been taking this for 16 years. And I take a little probiotic because I am 48 years old.
I say five little things when I close my eyes before going to bed, which I am grateful or excited for the next day, which is self-assistance 101, as basic as it happens, but it works. Just to sit there in bed and say, “I'm going to open the door, and these Frickin dogs will be so happy to see me, and I will be able to bring them joy. So, even if the whole day goes to S – tomorrow, I'm going to have this wonderful little interaction with these little puppies that I like. ” I try to focus before Zonk.
