The characters on “The Studio” — the Apple TV+ hit that not too long ago earned a record-breaking 23 Emmy nominations, probably the most ever for a freshman comedy — don’t have a lot of a life exterior the confines of their high-pressure jobs working the fictional Continental Studios.
However they do get out once in a while. And after they do, the present presents a view of Los Angeles that’s each sardonic and affectionate, portraying a spot the place desires can come true, supplied you’re not caught on the 405 at rush hour. (Which, to be clear, is just about any time of day.)
“L.A. is a wild, crazy, partially s—, madhouse,” says Evan Goldberg, one of many present’s creators and, with Seth Rogen, its co-director. “But it’s also a magical, artistic haven of crazy people with a lot of ambition and/or creative energy they want to share.”
We requested the present’s Emmy-nominated actors — Ike Barinholtz, Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O’Hara and Rogen — how their characters channel that artistic vitality into their downtime within the Metropolis of Angels. Seize your infrared sauna blanket and pour your self a glowing water with three lemons. That is “The Studio” information to Los Angeles.
Ike Barinholtz as Sal Saperstein
Continental Studios’ artistic exec, a divorced dad, a survivor, albeit one who’s anxious (for good cause) about navigating the brand new sensibilities of Hollywood.
Favourite neighborhood: He lives within the Hollywood Hills. Why? It has the identify Hollywood in it, and he nonetheless thinks that if you happen to’re super-successful on this enterprise and single, having a spot up is the way in which to go. You don’t want a yard. You don’t want house in your children to go on walks. You’re single, and your children solely come as soon as each different week, so it’s only a bachelor dwelling up within the hills.
Final live performance seen on the Hollywood Bowl: He went on a date with a a lot youthful actress to see Think about Dragons. And he didn’t have a good time.
Clothes model that dominates his closet: For Sal, the peak of style is Tim Robbins’ Armani fits in “The Player,” fits which are ever-so-slightly large. In his downtime, he’s the type of man who likes to go to Nordstrom and do plenty of harm. Earth tones, it doesn’t matter what.
Tim Robbins in “The Player.”
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Go-to date spot: Undoubtedly Sundown Tower. He additionally has a membership to the San Vicente Bungalows, however he’s mad at them as a result of they made a date put the sticker on her telephone digital camera. He acquired into it with the maître d’: “You don’t trust that my date is not going to take pictures?” They lastly relented and let her take the tape off, and she or he took a bunch of images of celebrities. So he’s not in a fantastic place with the San Vicente Bungalows, which is why he’s again on the Sundown Tower.
Most-shared wellness tip: He’s an IV man. So once you hit it a bit of too arduous, this man will come to your workplace. He hooks you up, the entire thing out and in in 25 minutes, and you’re feeling such as you didn’t drink a bottle of vodka the evening earlier than.
Favourite place to see a film: Sal liked the ArcLight as a result of they’d nice parking and you may smoke weed on the roof and nobody ever stopped you. However now that the ArcLight’s gone, I may see him doing Mann’s Chinese language along with his daughters. Sal Saperstein just isn’t afraid of Hollywood Boulevard. He loves it. He loves Musso’s and he loves the appeal of it. And, sure, he nonetheless calls it Mann’s Chinese language. And individuals are like, “It’s not called that anymore.” And he’s like, “What are you gonna do? Cancel me?”
Exercise routine: He has employed a man who involves his dwelling to do cardio boxing 3 times per week, however he so typically cancels that he’s mainly simply paying this man $500 per week to do nothing. He has good intentions, however the follow-through just isn’t nice.
The Grove, adore or keep away from? He thinks of it as a gem. It brings him again to when he would go there along with his youngsters and they might meet Santa. Additionally, he’s met Rick Caruso they usually’re pleasant.
Rush-hour coping mechanism: He has a bit of weed vape pen that he can hit every time he’s feeling visitors stress. And he has plenty of playlists, basic rock, first wave. He’s undoubtedly mourning Ozzy [Osbourne], admiring him for the good music and likewise pivoting to TV and creating an empire.
Los Angeles Worldwide Airport.
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What the TikTok / Instagram algorithm serves him most: Trip spots. Folks going out on Ritz-Carlton cruises. Plastic surgeons speaking about what work Hollywood folks have gotten achieved, as a result of Sal might be going to be like a kind of guys that round 55 begins actually f— along with his face.
Energy-lunch order: Grilled hen paillard with a inexperienced salad and two martinis. He’s a Vesper boy. It will get him via until 5 o’clock.
Most L.A. grievance: Navigating LAX may be very nerve-racking, even if you happen to’re extremely rich. He’s mad that he has to cope with LAX bull—. “Why are we not moving? Why is traffic completely stopped here?” He simply flew again from New York and the driving force that they employed for him isn’t there, and he has to go as much as departures. He believes L.A. is such a fantastic metropolis, it must have a greater airport.
Kathryn Hahn as Maya Mason 
Audacious, profane advertising govt who views herself, fairly rightly, as probably the most artistic particular person within the room.
Favourite neighborhood: I’ll let you know this, she will’t drive “east of the 405” and has been saying that for the reason that early ’90s. In actual fact, she got here up with it. She loves Sycamore Avenue. There’s a Tartine and the clothes retailer Simply One Eye, which is insanely costly however she nonetheless loves to buy there.
Clothes model that dominates her closet: Concern of God. In all probability her stylist was like, “It’s very niche, uncomfortably raw fashion.” It’s very ahead, and that’s what she likes.
A band performs contained in the San Vicente Bungalows, the place pictures are normally verboten.
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Go-to date spot: San Vicente Bungalows. She was one of many founding members. She put her money down immediately as a result of she was so sick of the freaking Soho Home. San Vicente Bungalows are cooler and chiller. However sincere to God, she hasn’t been on a date in 20 years, except you rely Raya.
Most-shared wellness tip: Ayurvedic, however solely as a result of you’ll be able to s— loads. For her, it’s all concerning the old-school colonic. A therapeutic massage takes too lengthy.
Favourite place to see a film: Whereas sweating in an infrared sauna blanket. And she or he’s solely watching screeners of upcoming releases. She hasn’t watched a film for pleasure in years.
Exercise routine: In her workplace at lunch with Dave, her coach. She likes to get “stretched out.”
An Ayurvedic therapeutic massage.
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The Grove, adore or keep away from? By no means. She will be able to’t deal with the parking storage. It’s the identical cause she doesn’t go to the Hollywood Bowl. The inconvenience drives her loopy.
Rush-hour coping mechanism: Matt Belloni — or the sound of her personal screaming.
What the TikTok / Instagram algorithm serves her most: Mukbangs.
Energy-lunch order: The hen paillard at Il Pastaio — pounded, pounded, pounded. Further pounded. And a glowing water with three lemons.
Most L.A. grievance: “I might lose you in the canyon.”
Catherine O’Hara as Patty Leigh 
Straight-talking former studio head, now a mentor to Matt Remick and having fun with her personal manufacturing deal at Continental.
Favourite neighborhood: Culver Metropolis. She likes the historical past and desires to be near all of the studios. Her work is her life.
Final live performance seen on the Hollywood Bowl: Oh, it’s been some time, I feel. She’s been busy. In all probability Garry Shandling. He was good. God bless him.
Clothes model that dominates her closet: Max Mara. A lot of beige and pumpkin. She undoubtedly acquired sucked into having her season achieved, so she is aware of she’s an autumn. The garments aren’t the best finish. She’d fairly spend her cash on meals and booze and journey.
Downtown Culver Metropolis.
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Go-to date spot: Chinois on Primary. Or Mr. Chow. You possibly can discuss over shared dishes. And there’s at all times somebody she is aware of within the room, so if the date goes south, she will name them over to the desk. These locations are additionally good as a result of she will see in the event that they know methods to use chopsticks. In the event that they ask for a fork, there’s no second date.
Most-shared wellness tip: All you want is a strong 5 hours of sleep. Nevertheless it’s acquired to be steady.
Favourite place to see a film: She has a pleasant dwelling theater, good sound, comfortable chairs. Actually comfortable. Stunning couches and chaise longues. It doesn’t seem like anybody else’s movie show.
Exercise routine: Mountain climbing within the hills. And after I say “hills,” I imply hilly residential streets, like in Brentwood, so she will have a look at properties and gardens and in folks’s home windows and get some extra good concepts for landscaping and adorning.
The Grove, adore or keep away from? Keep away from. Earlier than the fires, it could have been the one within the Palisades. She hopes it’ll come again.
The Doobie Brothers.
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Rush-hour coping mechanism: Yacht rock. Michael McDonald. The Doobie Brothers. Christopher Cross.
What the TikTok / Instagram algorithm serves her most: She scans it each every so often if she’s bored or if she will’t sleep. However social media isn’t her factor. She’s acquired folks to observe that.
Energy-lunch order: A salad with grilled hen or salmon. It was once with a glass of rosé, however she’s reduce on that. It acquired her in bother a few occasions. She’s largely give up the booze and the swearing.
Most L.A. grievance: The visitors. At all times the visitors.
Seth Rogen as Matt Remick 
New head of Continental Studios, a folks pleaser making an attempt to steadiness his love for filmmaking with the calls for of commerce.
Favourite neighborhood: He has a fixation with Previous Hollywood — the Chateau Marmont, Musso and Frank. I’m positive he finds himself on the Soho Home and the Sundown Tower.
Final live performance seen on the Hollywood Bowl: A type of nights the place John Williams conducts a film rating. Just like the “Jaws” evening. It doesn’t even need to be John Williams. Hans Zimmer would do. Something linked with the flicks. I don’t assume he has a lot style in music past music from motion pictures.
Clothes model that dominates his closet: Brunello Cucinelli, one of the crucial unbelievably costly clothes manufacturers there’s. It’s an Italian model that makes a stunning double-breasted swimsuit, however, once more, simply extremely priced. You must be fairly useless to make that leap, which Matt is.
Dan Tana’s.
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Go-to date spot: Matt doesn’t date a lot. I might begin there, firstly. But when he have been to exit, he’d wish to go someplace he feels type of cool and the place he appears like they know him. Dan Tana’s. Once more, Previous Hollywood vibe. And the waiters know him by identify, so when he walks in, they go, “Matt!” I feel he’s jockeying to have a dish named after him. That will be the last word accomplishment.
Most-shared wellness tip: Matt has a high-end physician who is available in and does blood work and tells him what he needs to be doing to be more healthy, after which he simply neglects the whole lot he heard. Matt likes speaking about well being and wellness. Like, “Celebrities are into wellness. This is something we could talk about.” I guess he has a sauna and a chilly plunge someplace, however by no means makes use of them. He tells folks to meditate, however by no means meditates. He talks concerning the significance of sleep, however he doesn’t sleep very properly.
Favourite place to see a film: If the Cinerama Dome have been open, it’d be the Cinerama Dome. Nevertheless it isn’t, so it’s the Chinese language. Stunning theater, unimaginable sound, and the costume from “The Wizard of Oz” is within the foyer. It’s a real piece of Previous Hollywood that’s nonetheless practical immediately. And you may get harassed by a man in a Spider-Man swimsuit on the way in which in!
Exercise routine: Simply working up and down these stairs in that workplace is a big a part of his exercise routine. He’s most likely like, “I stand a lot. That counts.” Like many Hollywood males, he doesn’t work out and runs off of consuming half a salad and consuming 100 cups of espresso after which having a pair martinis on the finish of the day. They’re not obese, however they’re not in any means wholesome or match.
The Grove, adore or keep away from? He’s OK with the Grove as a result of he likes the Farmers Market subsequent door. Once more, Previous Hollywood. He would most likely like telling those who James Dean ate his final meal there earlier than he went on his ill-fated automotive journey.
Rush-hour coping mechanism: He’s rolling calls in a convertible in 105-degree warmth, you already know, yelling at somebody’s agent.
Willem Dafoe in “To Live and Die in L.A.”
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What the TikTok / Instagram algorithm serves him most: Movie stuff. Letterboxd opinions. Little clips of filmmakers like, say, William Friedkin speaking about making “To Live and Die in L.A.”
Energy-lunch order: He orders one thing wholesome, most likely the salmon, after which doesn’t eat it as a result of he’s speaking via the entire lunch. Like, he goes to the Beverly Hills Resort, orders the McCarthy salad, and it stays on his plate.
Most L.A. grievance: Matt loves L.A., so his largest grievance is folks coming to town and making disparaging feedback. Like, it’s an unsightly metropolis or it has no historical past or tradition. It’s a stupendous metropolis! And it has a storied historical past and plenty of tradition! Matt sees town’s magic and surprise and will get very defensive when folks don’t prefer it.
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