The ‘Death Becomes Her’ lead reveals her best packing tips and why she has a fear of flying
I was in anemergency landing situationonce , so I do have a bit of a fear of fly . I reckon you may stillfind an clause about it , actually . I was traveling home from the out - of - town tryout forShrek : The Musical , and we had an exigency landing place in Chicago . This would have been in 2008 . In secular ’s terms — and I certainly am rephrase ; I do n’t want to get anyone in trouble , including myself — it was my understanding that the electric system malfunctioned onboard , so the pilots had to do a manual landing . I think back catch some Z’s onboard and waking up because it was getting very hot . I looked up and the Christ Within were sullen . They tried to keep everyone serene and told us that we ’d be shore in Chicago .
I did n’t really realise how serious it was until we were coming in . I remember thinking , “ We ’re coming in fast . " And when we set down on the tarmac , we slew off , a tire blew , and we stop in the grass . The outrageousness of it hit me when I saw , as wide as my peripheral vision could see , a line of parking brake vehicles charging the plane . And it was only then that I realized , “ My goodness , this is pretty serious . ”
So we all deboarded and luckily , everyone and everything was fine . But one of my castmates , multiple Tony Award - winner Sutton Foster , was on board and I remember — because I always use dark humor to grapple with things — saying to myself , “ I ’m happy we did n’t die because the headline would have translate ‘ Sutton Foster and others perish ’ and I would have been relegated to ‘ and others . ’ ” That would have been the agency I went .
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Window , middle , or aisle seat?Window all twenty-four hours , everyday . I jazz have got the wall . I do n’t get it on hoi polloi brushing up against me when they take the air up and down the gangway . Sometimes I love to look out the window , but I really love the rampart because it helps me sleep . I ’m a very good sleeper goby on an airplane .
tamp down light or overpack?I coterie lighter . In my youth I overpacked , but I have learned through the years that you think you ’re going to demand X , Y , or Z for every occasion , blah , blah , blah . You end up wearing the same things over and over again . That ’s my experience with traveling .
So , I ’m very much in favour of a day to evening look . And I ’m very into stuff that ’s comfortable but see fancy and fabrics that do n’t wrinkle . I ’ve mother very wise about how I pack .
Favorite way to make pass time on a planeI will just cue podcasts up and heed to those over and over again . Or I ’ll always add a good Koran .
cock-a-hoop locomotion fearBecause of that emergency landing situation , I have a fear of flying .
Best tip for press jet lagHydration . Do n’t order liquor and caffeinated drink on the plane . Hydrate .
preferred travel snackI usually order some form of en .
Go - to drink order on a planeUsually , I like carbonated H2O . And whether it ’s a placebo or not , my mother always enjoyed just tomato succus on a plane . So I will commonly order a Lycopersicon esculentum succus . I think it ’s an old wive ’s story that ’s been debunked , but it ’s been said that it can assist you with jet lag .
Travel Must Haves
I love noise cancelling headphones and podcasts .
This is really not as exciting , but I always have less drowsy Dramamine in my bag because you never know how choppy the flight ’s going to be with Sturm und Drang .
I have sex to have a Koran with me on a flight and I ’m in between a few right now . I ’m reading Mind Hunter by John E. Douglas — it was a Netflix serial . It ’s about one of the original Creator of the FBI ’s behavioral skill unit of measurement . I ’m also reading Randall Kennedy ’s playscript Interracial Intimacies . And I ’m reading R.H. Sin ’s The Year of Letting Go .
I learn this from a video I witness of flight attender nag for how to take . So those horizontal Thursday , Friday , Saturday birth control pill cases , they ’re severally compartmentalized . Put your jewelry in one of those , so you’re able to split up your earrings from your necklace from your bracelets . And they ’re so small . It ’s genius !
