I was in my house on Mandeville canyon this time last year listening to the rain. I checked the house for leaks and looked out the window at how green everything was. I took my dog on a hike up the fire road in the rain. Everything was green and beautiful. But I was so scared- because up there, you knew what that meant. You knew what it meant when the insurance companies didn’t want to give you fire insurance. The city still comes after you for not clearing the brush around your home- which I spent thousands of dollars doing every year for every house I’ve lived in. But the city never cleared anything. They come after you for not clearing brush in your tiny yard, but next to you is a fire road growing out of control.
I was 17 when I first put my feet in the Pacific Ocean, near the Santa Monica pier. I walked around rodeo drive and saw Michael Douglas. I saw all the fancy cars outside of the West Hollywood coffee shops and out front of CAA. The houses were all so beautiful, and so unique- each home had its own personality, its own sense of style. I drove up random streets into the hills and watched the lights twinkle beneath me, just like Adam duritz had sung about in the songs I listened to on repeat from my bedroom in New York. I hiked up the Santa Monica mountains alone and the ocean spread out before me. Later I got a dog, and I took him to see the ocean too, almost every day. Los Angeles is beautiful. It’s filled with hopes and dreams, artists, art, architecture, and the judgment I found in New York City was replaced with a tangible ability to prove myself. I love Los Angeles and I am angry at the people who knew what I knew and did nothing - I am heartbroken for everyone and everything that has been lost
For @InStyle’s Self-Love Issue, #AlexandraDaddario gets intimate on her favorite red carpet moments, what it’s like to grow up in the industry, and how she embraces her darkest moments: https://t.co/Iu5f7dprKv
As the freshly-thirty Dr. Rowan Fielding in Anne Rice's #MayfairWitches adaptation, @AADaddario’s character *seems* to have it all together. "I think a lot of us feel [like Rowan]," she says. “Sometimes you make bad choices, but you have this other part of your life figured out."