The sons of Melissa Fumero, at 5 and 8 years old, are almost At the age they can prepare for breakfast. When the time comes, it will be an aid for the occupied mother, who is also coupled with the queen of network television.
The actor is perhaps best known to play the exaggerated diversion. Amy Santiago in the police series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”.
In Sunday Funday, people give us a game game of their Sunday ideal in the city. Find ideas and an inspiration where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on weekends.
But she calls her latest role, as a “wild” suburban worldly on the new NBC series “Big point Garden Society”, “ A “dream of an actor”.
“The experience of playing a worldly means that you are in the hair of hair and makeup much longer than when you play a detective,” said Fumero, laughing.
More seriously, the joy of playing her character, Birdie, has just dug under his surface Plasticky.
“When we meet her in the show, she had everything she wanted, and she is a bit like:” And now? ” And “Who am I even?” And “What do I even want?” “Said Fumero.
Introspection is familiar to the actor, who co-hosts A podcast called “More Better” With another former “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” Stephanie Beatriz. With that, they frankly discuss the delicate balancing act between their career and their personal life.
But beyond, really, Fumero assured me, there are few touchstones between her and birdie. Here's how the actor focused on the family would really pass his ideal Sunday.
This interview was slightly modified for length and clarity.
7:30 am: Sleep
My ideal, perfect and fantastic Los Angeles morning is that my children sleep. And sleep, I mean they wake up at 7:30 am, who sleeps in our house.
Ninety percent time, it's really soft. They come to the bed, they cuddle, they are all cute. And then, just when you are falling asleep because you think, “Maybe we are all going to sleep a little longer,” they whisper in the ear: “Can we get up now?” I'm really hungry. Can we go have breakfast now? ” It's so cute, but it's so boring.
9 p.m.: Tucker out the puppy
I will take my French Mastiff Rosie for a hike in Fryman canyon To tucker for the day and also feel like you have moved on a Sunday. It's a great hike. This is one of my favorites. It is never super failed, and when you arrive at this crest of the background and overlooks all the mountains, and there are eucalyptus … it's so much
10:30 am: surfing is in place
Let's say that this Sunday is in summer, so we will also go to the beach for the day. Each summer, I say that we are going to go to the beach every Sunday, then what is happening is, like at least five or six occur.
So, after the hike, I will stop and take sandwiches and slats of Harvesting moonWho is one of our favorites and we are going all the time. I'm going to have croissants. I'm going to get their delicious slats. I'm going to have a muffin for my son and a few sandwiches. We are going to wrap a cooler, and we will lead to Will Rogers (State) Beachwhich for us is about half an hour drive. Some people do not know that the parking lot continues to go north once you have entered it, and it is generally our move.
We are like serious beach people.
I grew up going to New Jersey beach and Miami. Then my husband is also Cuban, and he grew up in Miami, so he also grew up by going to the beach. I have been on the beach with my parents for eight hours, so we have somehow do the same thing.
We have the chairs, we have covers, we have a cooler and umbrellas. We also like to invite friends to the beach because it is always more fun with other families. Adults cool down and may have a high lunchtime and tokens while children play and look for sand crabs and boogies and climb the rocks. It's always just the best time.
3.30 p.m.: Keep children awake
We probably spend half of the house at home trying to prevent our children from falling asleep, because if they do it, they will be standing too late, and we hated that. So it's strong music and being like: “Hey! Don't sleep! We're going to be at home soon. Open your eyes! Look at me!” Basically, being the most boring parents of returning home.
4 p.m.: Lazy screen time
We return home and depending on the difficulty of children, it will either be a lazy screen time for everyone, or sometimes they jump in the pool for an hour because they are maniacs and their energy is unlimited, especially if they fell asleep in the car. If they fell asleep in the car, their (butts) go to the pool when we go home.
5.30pm: Italian dinner adapted to the family
We are going to go dinner. Our two favorite family spots are Osteria la Buca in Sherman Oaks or Pitfire Pizza in North Hollywood.
Osteria has really fantastic Italian cuisine. We discovered them during the pandemic because they made the back on the back, that is to say that they transformed their small parking lot in the back in outdoor catering. They had picnic tables, and they would make a very small menu of some of their pizzas and their spaghetti, and they would have wine and beer. It was the first fun thing we could do in pandemic, so it was then that we fell in love with them.
The Pitfire pizza is super bomb, and I say it as a former New York. In general, A Bomb Pizza now. It wouldn't be true …
Pizza Pitfire looks more like gourmet pizza in the brick oven. It's smaller and the crust is really soft. But it's always crisp, and there are a lot of different combinations. My children love pizza and meatballs there. My husband and I love the pizza, and we love the chubby choula salad, and also they make double colors of wine. It is therefore my favorite part. It is a large outdoor seat (area), so it's really fun to go. Often we also meet other families with children we know. It is a very family place.
8 p.m. Kiddos' bedtime
Then, is to get home and relax, make the bath and bed, and hopefully from the whole beach and swimming, the children are at 8 o'clock. And then maybe I can have another glass of wine with my husband on the sofa and have just an hour for ourselves.
9 p.m.: TV and Chill
The children fall asleep and we run to start a show before becoming too tired. We just started to “shrink”, and it's a little easier because they are episodes of half an hour.
Whenever we try to watch a one hour show, it's like, really difficult. One of us will fall asleep, and it is as if we have turned. One night is him, one night it's me. And then we have to decide whether we want to see again or not. We love television so much. We are so tired. We have small children.
