Meg Stalter Confessions: Middle-of-the-Night Runs, Ice Water Dunks & a Chicken-Themed Comedy Show

Actress, singer and comedian Meg Stalter has been booked and busy. Not only did she just wrap the Emmy-winning series Hacks, but she also recently dropped the fabulous single "Prettiest Girl in America" and has been performing nightly on Broadway in Oh, Mary! (where she's honestly incredible as Mary Todd Lincoln).

Yet despite her busy schedule, Stalter took the time to sit down with me for an exclusive interview (I attempted to keep my fan-girling to a minimum but I'm not sure how well I succeeded), where she dished on everything from her morning routine—which may or may not include ice water face dunks—and her upcoming Knorr Chicken Roast in NYC on August 10.

“Then, I go out to the fridge. Take out the chicken from the freezer. Let that thaw, okay? Say hello to my animals, say hello to my girlfriend, brush my teeth." Gotta appreciate an actress who meal preps chicken at 8 a.m.

“Then I’m going back to the kitchen, getting a big bowl of ice and putting some water in it. Doing a little face dunk into the ice.” No one ever said our skincare regimen would be painless...

“And at this point everyone in the house is upset because they haven't had breakfast yet. I'm upset, the animals are upset, you know. So I go in the kitchen, I start making people's breakfast. I put the dog and cat food down.

"I think, ‘What would my girlfriend want?’ ‘What do I want?’ And usually it's some scrambled eggs with Knorr Granulated Chicken Bouillon sprinkled on top, okay? So, as the eggs are cooking, I start marinating the chicken that's now defrosted…so it wasn't that cold. So, I'm defrosting it, and I'm marinating it for dinner that night. I'm making some coffee. I don't have makeup on yet and my hair is still kind of tied back. So I got the coffee, the eggs are ready, the chicken's marinating—I'm doing meal prep for the week—I put it in the fridge.

“I go back. I put on a really sophisticated outfit." LOL. "I put my hair in an updo and do my makeup—sometimes you mess up, you gotta do it again, so that could add some minutes to the clock. The hair updo takes a while.

“I go back out and we have a beautiful breakfast together. Everyone's happy with me, and everyone's complimenting me about the breakfast.”

I asked if there was time in her routine for a bit of a workout. Once again, I wasn't prepared...

She said, “So I'll go on a run. The odd thing is that I go in the middle of the night, so I wake up in the middle of the night, go on the run, then go back to bed. Because that way my body's sort of awakened and then gets the best sleep when you go back down for the sleep cycle."

I questioned her. "Really?!"

She paused. "Well…I want to do that, but I don't really do it that much…yeah.”

With so much having occurred in Stalter's day before 9 a.m., I had to wonder how this whirlwind left her feeling.

She revealed, “I feel accomplished and ready to take on the rest of whatever the day has to offer. If I'm in the play, I basically do all that and then wait around for about, you know, nine hours before the play. But then at home, of course, I have a million different projects and I might go to the studio and record some music.”

Eight a.m. meal prep, ice dunks and middle-of-the-night jogs. Stars...they're just like us?