His travel pet peeve:
When people don’t give grace to their fellow passengers, it drives me nuts. When I see somebody traveling with a young kid, and they’re not only worried about their baby’s experience of this flight and trying to make sure that it’s a good memory for them, but also then having to worry about the adult the row over who is huffing and puffing and rolling their eyes? Have some grace! We’re all trying to get to another destination, and we’re trying to be good to each other. I do that lame, overstepping thing where I say to a parent, “Just so you know, you’re doing awesome.”
The hotel amenity he cares a lot about:
It depends on who’s paying for the hotel! If it’s me, I just want a really nice bed. I’m there for the bed. If I’m traveling for work, then boy do I love great room service. I’m not getting a lot of stuff! But if there’s just a good falafel? Yeah!
The funniest place he’s ever been recognized:
I was in the Syracuse airport and one of the TSA agents was looking at me kind of funny. She said, “I’m sorry, are you famous?” I said, “It depends on who you ask.” She looked at me one more time and said to her coworkers, “I was wrong. It’s not him.” That was my favorite.
What movies he watches in flight:
Anything that [Wicked director] Jon M. Chu has made. I’ve watched Crazy Rich Asians on so many flights. I listened to some podcast recently about how planes are a great place to watch a movie—the isolation, and the heightened emotions that come with it. So I love watching movies of all kinds on planes. I just watched Sorry, Baby, on a plane, and Fall Guy, too. I love a blockbuster with a lot of set pieces on a plane.
A place he’s never been that he wants to see next:
I’m dying to go to Japan. I went on a bit of a tear a decade ago reading a whole bunch of Haruki Murakami books back to back to back: 1Q84, A Wild Sheep Chase, Norwegian Wood. I got these vivid images of Tokyo and Kyoto and Osaka, and was like, Oh my God, I’ve got to see that. So many people in my life say it’s their favorite place in the world.
