For Kaley Cuoco, Sundays imply one factor: soccer.
Her fiancé Tom Pelphrey first made her a fan. “Because Tom is so obsessed with football, if I wasn’t going to join then I would be an outsider,” she says. “I needed to be included so I jumped in. And by the way, I’m so glad I did.”
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Now, she describes soccer season as “very iconic and sacred” of their home: “Every hour of it is taken very seriously.” The remainder of the yr, Sundays are reserved for decompressing with actuality TV and true crime. “Instead of calling it trash [TV], I call it my ‘girl TV,’” she says. “I love ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ Andy Cohen, I watch all his [series]. I’m watching every season of ‘Love Is Blind.’”
The actress, whose newest darkish comedy sequence “Based on a True Story” is now streaming on Peacock, lives with Pelphrey, their daughter Matilda and a bunch of cattle on a ranch exterior Los Angeles. Right here’s how she’d spend a really perfect Sunday in L.A. when soccer just isn’t in session.
This interview has been flippantly edited and condensed for size and readability.
8 a.m.: Get up with the canines
A traditional wake-up for me is 7 a.m. as a result of we’ve got 4 canines who won’t let me sleep previous 7. It’s not even my daughter, it’s our silly canines. However my dream Sunday is sleeping in no less than till 8 a.m. and having my espresso on my own with nobody bothering me. Having espresso within the morning is my favourite factor in your entire world, I look ahead to it.
I’m a half-and-half woman. By the way in which, with all of the dangerous elements in all this s— now, half-and-half is definitely one of many cleanest issues you may eat. I’m simply saying! Tom appears to be like at me like, ‘I cannot believe that you put that in your coffee.’ I’m like, ‘Read the ingredients in your oat milk! You think you’re being all wholesome, have a look at that s—.’ Mine is simply milk and cream. Natural, easy, finished.
9 a.m.: Fast exercise sesh
If I’ve a bit of time for myself, I’ll go to my yoga class. I’m going to CorePower and I sweat my ass off. I’m not the kind of particular person that may work out in my home alone. So I’ve been going for years and years and years.
I like Pilates as properly. And I journey my horses too. I do a number of driving classes every week and I private practice. I get very bored … like this morning, I private educated and tomorrow I’m going to have a driving lesson. I positively like to change it up. However I at all times return to CorePower as a result of I adore it.
11 a.m.: Weekly manicure
Sunday can also be my manicure day. That’s considered one of my favourite issues to do. I’m going to Helen’s Nails within the Valley and I adore it. I at all times have my nails finished and that’s at all times on Sunday.
Helen’s been my woman for 18 years. I’ve adopted her to 5 places. I don’t go to anybody else. I don’t even get my nails finished once I’m engaged on set. I’m very loyal, OK? She is the perfect of the perfect. And it’s not even that I would like it, I [just] get pleasure from that point. It’s like my gymnasium.
For each job, I choose a nail colour. And so relying on what the job is, I’ll keep on with that one colour for your entire factor. It additionally helps with continuity. For Season 1 of “Based on a True Story,” I purposely had a crimson blood crimson colour. It simply went with the theme. For “Harley Quinn,” I wasn’t on digital camera so I bought to do regardless of the hell I need. However I believe if that Harley was [live action], there can be 10 completely different colours and it will all be chipped. Not completely finished in any respect.
Midday: Take turns with Matilda
When Tom and I are on obligation with Matilda, a very long time in the past we well [decided to] take turns. We discover it pointless for each of us to be attempting to observe Matilda, as a result of you then simply have two people who find themselves exhausted.
I’ll go within the bed room and get in my mattress — I’m not kidding, it could possibly be 2 within the afternoon — and I watch trash TV for 2 hours. After which we swap and I come out and play with Matilda and Tom goes and does what he does.
2 p.m.: Leap round at Sky Zone
Sky Zone is so good as a result of they’ll’t get harm. She [Matilda] actually can run into something, run up the wall, fall into the pit and she or he’s laughing [the whole time]. And he or she likes to bounce, she thinks bouncing is so cool. So something like that, she freaking loves it. And by the point she will get dwelling, she’s so drained. We adore it there.
3 p.m.: Erewhon run for dinner prep
I at all times really feel like groceries simply [get up and] go away. Everybody’s consuming all the pieces consistently. Typically we do supply, however I believe it’s bizarre, folks choosing out your meals, so I do grocery procuring as properly on Sundays.
I hate to confess the love I’ve for Erewhon. It’s fully overpriced. You go in, purchase a $40 smoothie. I admit it’s loopy. With that mentioned, I’ve purchased attire there. Like, I’ve an actual drawback. I purchase sweatshirts, I’ve bought procuring baggage. Tom’s like, “What are you doing?” I believe they’ve the perfect meals, the perfect elements. I like my procuring expertise. Mr. Erewhon, wherever that particular person is, Mr. and Mrs. Erewhon? Good. I don’t know the way you probably did it.
5 p.m.: Dinner in entrance of the tube
I like cooking dinner. And I’ll make stuff for Matilda for the subsequent day and prep a few of her meals. On Sunday when I’ve time, I’ll cook dinner one thing that Tom will need. Often he’ll put a steak on. And since I don’t eat meat, he’ll make the steak after which I’ll make the perimeters and we’ll sit and have dinner.
Tom’s quite simple, like me. He desires meat and potatoes. I don’t need the meat, however I need quite simple dishes. So we’re not very adventurous in our [eating habits] though now I see it in my daughter. She desires rice and beans and nothing else. I’m like, Oh, my God, I’ve created a monster.
And we love TV, so we’ll watch some TV whereas we’re consuming. We simply began the Cate Blanchett present on Apple, “Disclaimer.” It’s Alfonso Cuarón’s present and he’s by no means finished TV earlier than. It’s implausible. We did “Menendez Brothers” for the previous few weeks. One in every of our particular rooms in our home is a theater, so we love to observe films down there. We watched “His Three Daughters” the opposite evening, implausible. We watched “Blink Twice,” we hadn’t seen that and beloved it.
9 p.m.: Bedtime!
I used to go to mattress very early. And I shall be sincere, if Tom’s gone, I’ll get in mattress at 8:30 p.m. It’s not that I’m going to sleep, I wish to get in mattress with my canines and watch my dangerous TV. That’s what I like to do. However that’s clearly not each single evening. So then, when he’s right here, I keep up later as a result of he’s such an evening owl and I hate that there’s all these hours I miss hanging out with him, so I attempt to keep up a bit of later. We’ll watch a film and fall asleep nearer to 11 p.m., however once I’m alone, I’m in mattress earlier than 9.