It’s just a few days after the Broadway opening of “Right here Lies Love,” the David Byrne/Fatboy Slim poperetta that charts the rise and fall of the Philippines’s notorious first couple, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. And right here sits Jose Llana — he performs Ferdinand — within the kitchen of the Hamptons, N.Y., weekend home he shares together with his husband, Erik Rose, an actual property govt.

At dwelling, the Filipino-born Mr. Llana, 47, appears an ideal lamb. However onstage, he glowers with one of the best of them. There he’s eight instances per week, imposing martial regulation. There he was within the 2015 Lincoln Middle manufacturing of “The King and I,” imposing his will because the ruler of Siam (and changing Ken Watanabe). He additionally starred within the subsequent excursions of “The King and I” round america and Britain.

It’s good to be king. The tidy sum Mr. Llana earned — and saved — throughout his reign on the street went far towards financing the Hamptons getaway, a shingle-style home that’s match for a, nicely, you recognize, with a pool on a landscaped acre-and-a-half lot.

“It was an unbelievable factor to have the ability to come again in any case that point and say, ‘OK, what are we going to do with this lump of money we now have?’” recalled Mr. Llana.

The reply? “Let’s lastly put it right into a home that we’ve been speaking about wanting to purchase for years.”

They briefly thought of Bucks County, Pa., as a result of Mr. Rose’s finest buddy has a home there. “Finally, although, we centered on the Hamptons,” Mr. Llana stated.

Jose Llana, 47

Occupation: Actor

Day out: “Generally I’m in our condominium and I feel, ‘I solely have 24 hours. Do I actually wish to exit to the Hamptons?’ However the second the jitney turns into the South Fork, and I begin to see timber, my shoulders drop.”

However the place within the Hamptons? A home onerous by outlets and eating places would have been handy, for certain, but in addition would have meant proximity to teeming humanity — precisely what the couple was leaving their Gramercy Park two-bedroom to flee. A spot on the water was one other nonstarter; Mr. Llana and Mr. Rose aren’t seaside folks. They’re, most ardently, household folks.

Thus, the choice to decide on a big home (nearly 5,000 sq. toes) with six bedrooms in a wooded part of the East Finish of Lengthy Island. They made a proposal on the property in January of 2020 and have been in a position to shut in April regardless of the arrival of Covid-19.

“The home grew to become an exquisite refuge for us, and for my sister and her husband and their two youngsters, who stay in Boston however moved in with us for 5 months,” Mr. Llana stated.

Publish-pandemic, the home was the positioning of a seventieth birthday celebration for Mr. Rose’s father, with each households in attendance. “Six bedrooms means we will have everybody right here on the similar time,” Mr. Llana stated.

Company can select, amongst different sleeping quarters, the appropriately named Blue Room, which has an indigo quilt adorned with a map of the Hamptons, together with a sewn-in coronary heart to mark the Llana-Rose dwelling. On the partitions: a raft of Filipino work.

The Pink Room is accessorized with a pink silk orchid, a pink upholstered bench, a watercolor by Mr. Llana’s 98-year-old grandmother and a five-foot-tall giraffe sculpture made out of recycled flip-flops.

“My husband has a slight obsession with giraffes, as a result of he’s tall and gangly like a giraffe,” stated Mr. Llana, who has a smaller model of the sculpture in his dressing room on the Broadway Theatre.

For the file, the couple don’t host simply relations; additionally they host the possessions of relations. Some years in the past, when Mr. Llana’s mom, an completed prepare dinner, downsized from a home to an condominium, she expressed concern on Fb that it might imply jettisoning her cherished cookbook assortment

Mr. Llana swung into motion. “I referred to as and advised her, ‘Don’t. Don’t allow them to go. I’ll pay to place them in storage, as a result of you recognize sometime we’d purchase a home and we will preserve them there.’”

Sometime is now. The books, from “Coconut Kitchen” to “The Pleasure of Cooking,” sit on cabinets within the alcove library upstairs, jostling for house with Mr. Llana’s voluminous stash of Playbills, one from each present he has ever seen. On the library partitions are small, framed posters of the reveals he has appeared in. The spillover — together with outsized foyer and front-of-theater placards (just a few of them pilfered, however by no means thoughts) — is tucked away within the basement.

The guts of the home is the double-height nice room. The marine palette (blue and white) is a nod to the situation. The material that covers the expansive sectional and the ottoman (tweed denim) is a nod to the homeowners’ “nothing-is-too-precious-here” perspective.

“We wish folks to have the ability to sit and never fear that they’re going to place a stain on one thing,” Mr. Llana stated. “Erik will at all times go for extra high-end, aesthetically stunning, trendy items. And I’ll be like, ‘Effectively, is it comfy?’ and we land someplace within the center.”

Towards the tip of final yr, the couple offered their condominium on East twenty third Avenue and moved right into a one-bedroom rental in NoMad. The loss of life of their beloved Boston terrier, Charlie, was a driver within the determination. “That second bed room had turn out to be a really costly doggy-day-care room,” Mr. Llana stated.

However he and Mr. Rose had additionally moved plenty of the issues they cared about to the home and didn’t want as a lot house within the metropolis.

“I might by no means have stated we have been Hamptons folks, till we had an increasing number of associates right here who I by no means would have regarded as Hamptons folks both,” Mr. Llana stated. “There’s this bizarre connotation, you recognize: Hamptons persons are this unfavorable factor.”

He continued: “Erik and I each grew up in very middle-class households, if not lower-middle-class. We didn’t have weekend properties; we didn’t have associates who had weekend properties. I used to be an immigrant. My mother and father got here to america with nothing.”

He paused, clearly at pains to get this good. “However you recognize, we’re in our late 40s, and each of our careers have actually picked up. And I feel for the primary time we’re saying that we’re allowed to take pleasure in a little bit little bit of the fruits of our labors and to create one thing that our households can take pleasure in.

“What I’m making an attempt to say,” he concluded, “is that we’ve labored onerous to get right here. So possibly we’re Hamptons folks in any case.”

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