{"id":337679,"date":"2026-05-29T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337679\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:41:14","slug":"how-to-have-the-best-sunday-in-l-a-according-to-cary-elwes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337679\/","title":{"rendered":"How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Cary Elwes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cary Elwes may not have been born in Los Angeles, but it\u2019s probably fair to consider the native Brit an honorary Angeleno. The \u201cPrincess Bride\u201d star was born in and spent his formative years kicking around London; he moved to L.A. in 1990, on his brother\u2019s recommendation. He met his wife, photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff, at a cookoff in Malibu about a year later and the two married in 2000. A daughter, Dominique, arrived in 2007.<\/p>\n

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In Sunday Funday, L.A. people give us a play-by-play of their ideal Sunday around town. Find ideas and inspiration on where to go, what to eat and how to enjoy life on the weekends.<\/p>\n

Elwes has spent his years in California not just establishing his family life, but also further enmeshing himself in Hollywood. He\u2019s appeared in everything from \u201cSaw\u201d to \u201cElla Enchanted,\u201d and played a corrupt government agent in a couple of \u201cMission Impossible\u201d movies. His latest role is as a former cop turned private detective in Peacock\u2019s new crime thriller, \u201cM.I.A.,\u201d streaming now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been out here for quite a bit now and while [2025\u2019s] fires were pretty devastating \u2014 changing a lot of the landscape and people\u2019s lives in ways that none of us could have imagined \u2014 I\u2019m hopeful,\u201d Elwes says. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re going to build back stronger and better. Things can seem dark sometimes, but I still have a spark of hope in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how Elwes would spend his perfect, hopeful Sunday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n

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10 a.m.: Coffee and a chat<\/p>\n

We wake up around 10 a.m., which is kind of late for me. Then we\u2019ll have our coffee. I tend to lean toward Gelson\u2019s beans, which I find have a particular flavor I tend to like. I do like my coffee. It\u2019s probably the only addiction I really have.<\/p>\n

Anyway, after I finish up my coffee, I\u2019ll typically ask my wife and daughter what they\u2019d like to do for the day. My daughter is 19, and she\u2019s terrific. I always tell my wife she\u2019s the best production we\u2019ll ever do together.<\/p>\n

Noon: Leisurely lunch<\/p>\n

My wife is very fond of this Italian restaurant in Woodland Hills called Casal\u00e9na<\/a>. It\u2019s right off Ventura Boulevard and it\u2019s terrific. Even their salads are extraordinary. It\u2019s fairly new, too, but it\u2019s always booked out solid so you really have to make a reservation in advance. Luckily, my wife and daughter are organized, so if they want to go there, they\u2019ll have planned ahead.<\/p>\n

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2 p.m.: Head to the movies<\/p>\n

We like to go see movies at the Imax at Universal CityWalk. The quality of that theater is very, very good and seeing films on the biggest screen possible is important to us.<\/p>\n

My wife and I went on a date to see \u201cMichael\u201d in Imax, which was sold out and it was phenomenal. Antoine Fuqua did a great job and our friend Colman [Domingo] was honestly transformative as Joe Jackson. And Jaafar Jackson, who\u2019s Michael\u2019s nephew, is remarkable. It\u2019s an extraordinary film, but sold out with people cheering and dancing? That made it a phenomenon. People were interacting with the movie as it played and it was remarkable.<\/p>\n

If we\u2019re not interested in whatever\u2019s playing at the time, we might go for a hike in Tapia Park<\/a>. I grew up watching \u201cMASH\u201d as a kid and when I realized they filmed there, I thought \u201cHow blessed am I to be living just a few miles from where such an iconic series was made?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a really beautiful park too. If you take a long hike, you\u2019ll see waterfalls and lots of wildlife. On a nice afternoon, taking the dog out there for a walk? You can\u2019t beat it.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much rich history here. I remember going on the Universal Studio Tour for the first time when I visited L.A. as a kid. They had a thing where they\u2019d pick a couple of tour guests and the guide would put you on camera in front of a blue screen and you\u2019d reenact a scene from a movie. The tour also took you by the \u201cJaws\u201d shark coming out of the water and through an old western town, and I found out years later that a director friend of mine had been making westerns there when I was a kid and I didn\u2019t even know it.<\/p>\n

That tour was fantastic. With parting the sea for \u201cThe Ten Commandments\u201d and then the boulders coming down the hill during the rockslide? Absolutely magnificent.<\/p>\n

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5 p.m.: Pick a Getty, any Getty<\/p>\n

Depending on what time our movie ends or if we just end up going for a walk instead, we might go over to the Getty Center. We love it there. Usually we\u2019ll go in the afternoon \u2014 maybe we\u2019ll have a late lunch up there \u2014 and sometimes we\u2019ll go to the Getty Villa instead, which luckily survived the Palisades fire.<\/p>\n

We just love being around art. We\u2019ll walk through the entire collection, plus whatever exhibit they have on at the time. We\u2019ll go to LACMA sometimes, too, or even the Academy Museum to see whatever new exhibits they have.<\/p>\n

Culturally, we really try to keep busy. Sometimes we\u2019ll want to sit at home and play Spite and Malice or watch a show on TV, but mostly I try to go out and encourage my family to do the same, especially because we live in such a wonderfully diverse, cultural city.<\/p>\n

7 p.m.: Taco time<\/p>\n

I always leave meal decisions up to the girls, and sometimes they like to go out and get tacos. We like the fish tacos at Escuela<\/a>. It\u2019s pretty close to Quentin Tarantino\u2019s movie theater, the New Beverly Cinema, which we like to go to as well. I took my daughter to see \u201cJaws\u201d there, in fact, which she loved.<\/p>\n

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9 p.m.: More movies<\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to educate my daughter in the films and TV shows that I watched growing up. She\u2019s taking a film history class in school. She wants to be an actor as well, so I want her to have an understanding of the history of film and history of performance, so I show her the great performances that inspired me as a kid and encourage her in that way.<\/p>\n

When I grew up in England, we literally had two channels, both in black and white. Young people can\u2019t quite wrap their heads around that now, but it really did make you pay attention because you had to be sitting in front of the television to catch a show or movie you wanted to watch.<\/p>\n

I remember that the BBC, particularly on weekends, would have matinee screenings of movies. We actually had pretty good quality TV in England growing up, but they\u2019d also heavily focus on British films from the \u201840s all the way through to the \u201860s so I got my education from that particular style of films, like the postwar films, \u201850s films, and the Ealing comedies. David Lean and Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson \u2026 a lot of the films they were in or directed really helped shape who I am today.<\/p>\n

Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers had a very strong influence on me as a kid, too, so I really want to try to share with my daughter why these films meant so much to me.<\/p>\n

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10:30 p.m.: Books in bed<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not really a late-night person anymore. I used to be when I was a kid, but now, unless we\u2019re out on a date, my wife and I are homebodies.<\/p>\n