How to have the best Sunday in L.A, according to Vivica A. Fox

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Vivica A.Fox dreamed of being a model, but in order to receive her mother’s blessing to move to Southern California, where the jobs were, she had to promise her one thing: She’d go to college.

So that’s what she did.At 18, Fox left her hometown of Indianapolis for Huntington Beach, where she attended Golden West College and got an associate’s degree in social sciences.

On weekends, she’d drive up to L.A.for auditions, getting her first taste of show business while dancing on Don Cornelius’ iconic television series “Soul Train” and later nabbing her first acting gig as Dr.

Stephanie Simmons on “Young and the Restless,” a role she recently reprised after more than 30 years.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.“The rest is kind of history,” says Fox, who went on to star in other hit films including “Kill Bill: Vol.

1,” “Two Can Play That Game,” “Soul Food” and “Set It Off,” which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.Her latest project, “Is God Is,” hits theaters Friday.

Directed by Aleshea Harris, who wrote the award-winning play of the same name, the film follows twin sisters as they embark on a vengeful quest to find their abusive father, who left them for dead.Fox plays God, the twins’ mother, a burn victim and domestic abuse survivor who gives her daughters a simple yet chilling instruction: “Make your daddy dead.

Real dead.” Harris handpicked Fox for the role.“I just was so honored,” Fox says.“Then when I got the script and dove into it a little bit more, I was like ‘Ooh, this is a way no one has ever seen me.

This is going to be challenging.” She adds, “I was like, ‘Wow.We don’t get things like this,’ so it was honestly, for me, a no-brainer.” Sundays are...