The ‘White Lotus’ and ‘Road House’ actor talks about his love-hate relationship with travel.
I have a love - hate relationship with travel . I love it and I hate it . I have a go at it to see the reality , to constantly be moving , to take on new people , and see new places . But it can also pass over me out . I always involve a Clarence Day to adjust to a Modern time zone , so I ’ll hibernate for about 24 hours whenever I go somewhere . I know you ’re supposed to walk around and bear on the ground when you land , but that ’s not for me . I prefer to take a Napoleon and order room service .
The first stumble I remember going on was to Budapest when I was seven year old . It feel like such a random station to go for a first stumble , but I call up I had to go on a family stumble there and I did a bunch of research . I larn some Hungarian quarrel . I think it was the coolest thing ever . I move to all those thermal baths and it was great . I loved it . I do n’t remember any Hungarian now , but I ’ve father a few Czech phrases in my back pouch because I was lately in Prague for a few days . Whenever I trip somewhere new I ’ll seek to learn some significant key phrases : how to say hi , how to order solid food , how to mash .
Another travel memory I have is from about 10 age ago , when I was on a flight that had to make an emergency landing place . Someone ’s laptop randomly get on blast and it filled the whole plane with smoke . Everyone onboard was squall and crying because we had no idea what was exit on . None of us knew it was just a defective laptop computer . It was terrorize at the minute , but since then , I ’ve been able-bodied to think to myself , “ If I could make it through that , I can make it through anything . ”
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Window, middle, or aisle seat?
Aisle . I pee nonstop during flights and I do n’t want to put anyone through hell by getting up every hour . Always gangway . Also , who would select the centre ? Who would be like , “ I love to sit in the middle smushed between people ? ” Never .
Pack light or overpack?
I overpack . I always think that I ’m going to get dressed up and go to different places and have all these looks . Then I end up have on my sweat pants and a sweatshirt the whole fourth dimension and I marvel why I packed so much .
Favorite way to pass time on a plane?
I have to medicine — specifically , Unisom . I have to get that log Z’s pill over the replication . And I ’ll watch a movie . I always weep while watching a picture show on a plane . There ’s something so vulnerable about fly in a metal tubing in the sky and I ’m just in the zone . I will always cry to a movie . And then I ’ll pass out .
Biggest travel fear?
It ’s so morbid , but I ’m always thinking , “ We could go down at any moment . ” I guess that is my biggest travel fear . I still get frightened of turbulence , somehow . I do n’t bonk why , because I know it ’s actually much safer than being in a railway car , but it still scar me .
Best tip for fighting jet lag?
I would say take a log Z’s pill on the plane so you may kip through the flight . I also would say to do your whole beauty routine on the plane , so even if you are tired , you still look okay . Then once you land , if you could attempt to oppose through it and remain up and try on to just get on with your daytime , that would be bully . Drink a caboodle of coffee .
But again , I ’m so bad at it . I ’m all public lecture . I just terminate up being jet lagged and sleeping the whole metre , so I ’m the worst person for advice .
Favorite travel snack?
I love a salt and vinegar check . That ’s my go - to .
Go-to drink order on a plane?
I always like a Diet Coke on the plane . I like Diet Coke on a plane and in the film theater , but not in real life . I do n’t know why . Something about it just hits dissimilar on a aeroplane .
Must-have travel items
I ’ll just lather this material on because it ’s so dry on an plane .
I like to do a little face mask moment and put a sheet mask on top of there .
My earpiece have to be noise canceling . I do n’t desire to try anything . I do n’t want to discover any babe crying . I do n’t want to discover any sound . I just need to check out .
I like to floss a lot . I have it off it ’s such a eldritch affair to say . But I used to not floss five years ago and my dentist called me out on it . So now , I just travel with a caboodle of floss picks and dental floss . I in all probability look like a half-baked person floss during a airplane ride , but it feels so good to just be smart and clean .
I ’ll always have deodorant and cologne . I just want to always smell good . You never want to be the stinky individual on the plane .
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