How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Mary Steenburgen

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Set us as preferred Mary Steenburgen moved to California to work with Jack Nicholson.It was 1977, and Steenburgen — an Arkansas native — had been waiting tables in New York at night while studying acting with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse during the day.She’d been pounding the pavement for about seven years, she says, when her “overnight moment came” and she was called in to read for a film Nicholson was both directing and starring in called “Goin’ South.”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.Getting the role, Steenburgen says, changed her life in every way.

“I flew out [to film] and had an amazing introduction to the town,” she explains.“I lived at the Chateau Marmont and went to Paramount Studios every day, where [Nicholson] would screen movies for me and then come in at the end to give me a little film-slash-acting lecture about each one.

It really helped me get ready to dive into the big leagues.”Though she spent some years in an old Ojai farmhouse in the 1980s raising her kids with former husband Malcolm McDowell, she’s always had a base of operations here in L.A.She shares her L.A.

abode now with husband Ted Danson, whom she married in 1995 and with whom she’s starred in numerous projects, including the Netflix series “A Man on the Inside.” L.A.is also where she filmed her latest movie, “The Dink,” an Apple TV comedy centered on one of her favorite pastimes: pickleball.Here’s how Steenburgen would spend her perfect, pickleball-filled Sunday in Los Angeles.This interview has been edited for length and clarity.5:30 a.m.: Early morning meditation and mental exerciseWe always wake up early.

After so many years of going to work at...