Sterling Okay. Brown and spouse Ryan Michelle Bathé’s Los Angeles dwelling had a stunning (but sudden) amenity once they bought the property.
“My spouse and I’ve a bunker in our dwelling,” Brown, 49, mentioned in a Sunday, June 8, interview for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” collection. “I believe a whole lot of midcentury-modern houses have them as a result of they have been constructed proper after World Battle II.”
Brown and Bathé, 48, have been married since 2007, throughout which they welcomed sons Andrew, 12, and Amaré, 8. The boys, nevertheless, have but to expertise the subterranean room for themselves.
“We sealed it up so the children wouldn’t be taking part in down there,” Brown quipped to The White Lotus star Natasha Rothwell throughout Sunday’s dialog. “[But,] it could actually maintain about 30 individuals.”
The forged of This Is Us are simply as near their very own households as their characters have been on the NBC drama collection. “[Playing a mom has] proven me that possibly I’m not as affected person as I assumed I used to be,” Mandy Moore, who portrayed matriarch Rebecca Pearson, solely instructed Us Weekly in February 2019, […]
Whereas the bunker may not be operational, Brown has one other favourite room on the property — his storage and self-proclaimed “man cave.”
“There wasn’t something notably inviting to the attention. It was a de facto pool home and held most of our storage,” Brown beforehand instructed The Los Angeles Times in 2017. “Issues simply began to spill out, the ping-pong desk was lined with garments and packing containers, the pretend Christmas tree was sitting in entrance of a bookshelf. What was as soon as a sanctuary grew to become a manner station. We wanted some assist.”
Brown’s refurbished storage is a spot the place he can run traces for his multitude of TV and film roles with out being disturbed, however it additionally serves as a spot to observe TV.
Ryan Michelle Bathe and Sterling Okay. Brown attend the 97th Annual Oscars March 2, 2025. Mike Coppola/Getty Photographs
“I would like quiet after I’m memorizing traces. I would like house I can stroll round in and be as loud and peculiar as I would like with nobody overhearing. I can do this now,” he quipped, noting that it’s additionally the place the place he goes to observe televised sports activities video games. “There’s a TV arrange, the place I watch soccer when my spouse will get uninterested in me watching in the home. I’m from St. Louis, so I used to be a Rams fan. I want Angelenos all one of the best, and I hope the Rams are profitable, however I’m now formally a person with no crew.”
The Paradise star additionally retains sentimental gadgets on show within the storage.
“There are actually nice images from when Andrew was born. The photographer, Linnea Lenkus, took footage of me holding him and kissing him, they usually’re a few of my favourite issues on the planet,” he recalled to the newspaper. “They present the wellspring of emotion that this little boy introduced into my life.”
On the time, Brown additionally praised his inside design crew for serving to renovate the house.
“I want I had the design eye of Randall Pearson. If I might dwell of their home, I might be an exceptionally blissful man,” he quipped to The Instances, referring to his This Is Us character. “I dwell a really spartan existence [and] Sterling left to his personal units would have many a white wall to stare at.”