The Cut - Greta Lee Is Getting Used to This

Before she entered the rarefied world of the Hollywood elite, Greta Lee took a step back. In 2020, she moved with her family from Brooklyn to El Sereno, a gentrifying working-class Latino neighborhood in Eastside Los Angeles. She settled in a small hilltop home on an acre of land previously zoned for cattle grazing and considered acquiring some goats, as her neighbors had done — that is, she says, “until I Googled what they sound like, and they sound exactly like whining children.” She now spends her free time raising three chickens, tending to wild grasses, and harvesting her own perilla leaves and avocados. “It’s a whole thing, trying to open up a Whole Foods at our house,” she declares with just a tinge of self-mockery. “It feels like a holistic way to live for us with our kids and a good balance for me in this insanity. This Sunset Tower insanity.”

Happy Valentine’s Day! If these animals can make it work, so can you and your partner. Oh, and skip the candy hearts. In non-Valentine’s news, business is business, but we expected toy brands to be able to play nice. Guess not. Apparently, this is happening. Librarians are the greatest. And nearly 15 percent of Americans are living in a fantasy world, which is honestly fewer than we’d expected.

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