Simon Rex Talks Living in His 'Getaway Pad' — a Very Glam Shipping Container

Mar. 15, 2025

Simon Rex at the April 2024 premiere of ‘Civil War’.Photo:Monica Schipper/Getty

Monica Schipper/Getty

When he’s not working on films like the upcomingZoë Kravitz-directedBlink Twiceor exploring California in his RV,Simon Rexsplits his time between a rental in L.A. and … a shipping container?

“I live in a shipping container out inJoshua Tree. It’s a basically 450-square-foot room,” Rex explained. “You learn that you don’t need much, and there’s something sort of Zen about that and simplifying everything and not having a lot of clutter because you don’t need all this stuff, you know?”

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“It’s off grid, you know, meaning that there is no infrastructure. I have a water well. I have solar power and a septic tank,” Rex explained. “It feels like you’re on, like, 50 acres with no one around as far as you could see. I mean, you couldn’t be more, as a city guy, out of your comfort zone and in nature. And so, yeah, it’s a tiny box, all glass on one side.”

If that still doesn’t paint an appealing picture,Rex posted several photosof the charming micro-dwelling on Instagram in late 2022, showing its lush wood paneling and its stunning desert vista.

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Simon Rex’s Joshua Tree “shipping container” home.Simon Rex/Instagram

Simon Rex/Instagram

“I was looking at places in Joshua Tree for a while, saw some shipping containers, and this guy did a really, really nice job,” Rex told the Meyers brothers. “I’ve been living in New York, L.A., San Francisco my whole life in an urban metropolis, in the human zoo, and I was like, ‘Let me just do the total opposite.’ And I can’t even tell you. It’s, like, life-changing. I just go there — It’s almost just like my getaway pad to go decompress.”

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Simon Rex at the 2021 Vulture Festival in Los Angeles.Vivien Killilea/Getty

Vivien Killilea/Getty

“It’s kind of like Jesus goes to the desert for 40 days,” Rex joked. “Like, you have this experience that’s very intense. And, so after a few days alone out there, a lot of stuff comes up. It’s like therapy. It’s like self-induced therapy.”

source: people.com