He’s done Bond and The Batman, Westworld, and Angels in America. He was Basquiat in Basquiat, and he’s equally beloved by Hollywood and Broadway. Jeffrey Wright has been working steadily since the late 80s, and after making his Wes Anderson debut, as New Yorker-y food writer Roebuck Wright in The French Dispatch, he’s returning to the director’s fold, in Asteroid City. Set in an American desert town in 1955, the film stars Wright alongside Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, and almost every actor in Hollywood. Herewith, Wright shares his key components to the good life. —Ashley Baker
Airport: I can’t believe I’m saying this, but La Guardia. Only because the new renovations are such an incredible improvement, and I still, to this day, can’t figure out how they engineered the renovations without having to shut it down.
App: Chess.com, 100 percent. You can play people from around the world at any time and anywhere. It’s so detailed and packed with stats and data relative to your game. It’s a reasonably healthy addiction, and a distraction away from the stupidity of social media and life in general.
Bedtime: Whenever.
Bike: My Specialized Vado SL 5.0. It’s an e-assist. Brilliant machine. In New York, it’s faster than a car.
Birthday: Celebrating at Peter Luger.
Car: I’m partial to my Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.
Child: My two!
Cocktail: Anything with Uncle Nearest whiskey.
Cocktail appetizer: I’m good with an oyster shooter, to combine the two.
Date: Springtime at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, when the cherry blossoms or the rose garden are in bloom.
Dress: Whatever is simplest, a bit vintage, and understated.
Drive: Hard to beat the P.C.H. [Pacific Coast Highway].
Enemy: The perfect enemy is none at all, but any enemies that I’ve ever had have always been stupid people, which is in and of itself advantageous.
