‘Landman’ star Ali Larter uprooted family to Idaho from LA for ‘simpler life’

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family left for the Northwest from Los Angeles during the start of the pandemic, and they just never left.“If it was a conscious choice, I would never have believed that it was, you know, it was during COVID and our kids’ schools were shut down, and so we just went for two months,” she explained this week. “We were like, OK, we’ll go ski.”Larter and actor husband Hayes MacArthur share two children: daughter Vivienne, 9, and son Theodore, 3. “My daughter was in kindergarten … It was just a complete – it was a terrible time,” she continued.

She said they went back to Los Angeles over the summer before deciding to make the move. “We’re like, ‘Let’s give it a go,’ and we were really, really lucky to find an amazing community there,” the 48-year-old said. “And we really, really responded to the ethos of that town.

It’s a simpler life with really generous people, and there’s an accountability when you live in a small town that we really loved raising our children in.”The “Obsessed” actress, who married MacArthur in 2009, said she loves the small town feel. “I think that the families that grew up there, that stayed there and the families that have moved there, so much of it is about family and nature,” she said. “There’s no big box stores, right?

Like you’re not sitting on freeways. Like there’s just there’s more time in the day to, I think, to appreciate and acknowledge life and as a family with me and my husband who are now working so much.” She added, “When we’re together, we’re there.