The actress shares her love for solo traveling and Amsterdam and why she’s always packing rosewater sprays, baby toys, and her journal.
I really kick into being like , “ I ’m a traveler , ” when I was in my early twenties . Anytime I would make a little money , I would spend it on a trajectory and go . So I ’d go toParisby myself . I run toIndiaby myself . I run to dissimilar places and I go alone . And I think that really kickstarted this adventuresome emotional state because you learn so much when you do n’t have Friend or a schedule to lean on . You ’re just kind of like , I ’m here and let ’s see what happens . And you make friends and there ’s solitary pockets as well . And I think looking back on it , it was such a beautiful clock time and I would just sit in coffee shops and indite and drag hoi polloi I go out . And I really am so grateful for those locomotion clip by myself .
I ’ve been very lucky that I ’ve gone to shoot down in some pretty majuscule places . A brace year ago I was inGreeceand then in Mexico , in theYucatán . It ’s really fun when you buck somewhere , because you land and you have someone picking you up and being like , " This is where you ’re staying . We ’re all getting dinner later . So once you drop off your bag , we ’ll go have dinner and then you get to know the great unwashed . " I even did two movies inDetroitand I had the best meter . There ’s such a nerveless cultural prospect there . But when you ’re move around just for leisure , and especially now with my family — I have a kid and a partner — it ’s very unlike because you do n’t have anybody telling you where to stick around and there ’s much more freedom , but then also no routine and you do n’t finger as adjudge .
journey alone , or on a personal stumble , you ’re like , what is this trip-up for ? It does n’t necessarily have a reason . Sometimes it ’s just to loose . But I do n’t really go to baby-sit by the beach . I ’m a lot more of a " we ’re going boost in the mountains and then there ’s this small shanty that we ’re going to stick around in " person . I ’m always doing lots of stuff on my trips . I ’m taste to jam in and see as much as possible .
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I ’m in the middle of thinking about where to move , so I ’ve been really thinking about that in a cock-a-hoop way and maybe wanting tomove to Europe , which is a big footstep . But I love Europe so much . There are so many magical place there . I really love Amsterdam . That ’s somewhere that I keep going back to and every time I ’m there it just gets better . It ’s a very small town . You are on your bike everywhere , but it ’s so multicultural and there ’s people from all over the world , so you do n’t feel disjunct . I really love it there .
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windowpane or gangway seat?Window . I like tolook out . My spouse is also a window , which is annoying because I ’m like , well , but I ’m also a window . I like looking out for certain . Always seeing the cloud . It ’s so much fun . And then also I like a affair to sleep on . You just put a pillow up there and it ’s like a full surface .
What ’s your best-loved room to give the time on a plane?I like to draw . I mean , now with the Thomas Kyd , I ’m just hanging out with the kid the whole prison term . But before , I used to always reap . Not to brag , but I do n’t like to hook up to the Wi - Fi . It ’s my only chance to actually not worry about being on my sound , unless it ’s imperative that I record something or watch something , which is commonly not the type . I love delineate . It ’s my favorite . I ’ll just get my daybook out and doodle . And I ’ve done some of my best drawings on airplane actually .
What ’s your large locomotion fear?I mean , crashing . That ’s an obvious one . I do n’t really have a fear of flying , though . I ’m a footling like , yeah , if it choke down , there ’s nothing we can do about it , God forbid . But [ for a low veneration ] , when I learn an annoying auditory sensation like someone chewing or someone who does a gnarly coughing over and over again , or someone who just has some weird human gross sound , that will drive me up a paries . I have a really hard time with that . I ca n’t just be like , oh , I did n’t even get a line it . I ’m just like , is that guy going to sigh again ? Like that ? That ’s unbalanced . So I in spades mind to music if that happens .
What ’s your favorite travel snack?My favorite travel bite are these peanut butter taproom called Perfect Bars . If I ’m being sizable , it ’s that . But when I ’m on an airplane , it ’s like I ’ve never use up before . When I ’m on an airplane , the hungriness is just interminable . So I ’ll just kind of use up whatever ’s offered to me too . Even if I enunciate I just eat before I obtain on the plane and I ’m not become to have the free meal , I ’ll deplete it no matter what .
