![]() ![]() “And because Florence was my partner at the time and… she’s just…” He trails off. “I wrote A Good Person for Florence,” he says. Otherwise, what’s the point?īraff speaks of Pugh effusively on his own terms. No one said being a creative person was easy, but you have to be vulnerable and authentically yourself. It’s surprising, both as their relationship was so intertwined with the film’s development, but also because of Pugh’s willingness to talk about Braff and their break-up in her own recent interviews. A few minutes before I meet Braff, I’m told that any questions related to his personal life are strictly off-limits. The pair shot A Good Person soon after and split some time last year. “I do not need you to tell me who I should and should not love,” she said. In early 2020, abuse hurled at Braff became so rabid that Pugh recorded an Instagram video to condemn it. She and Braff were a couple between 20, their relationship trailed by online criticism over their 21-year age gap. Of course, it’s impossible not to acknowledge the Pugh of it all. ![]() ‘It’s such a fight to star in anything good, period’: Adam Brody on swerving typecasting, FX’s Fleishman Is in Trouble, and yes, The OC.‘We need to prioritise the climate’: Daveed Diggs on extinction, Judaism, and why he doesn’t like to reflect on Hamilton.‘There was a no-asshole policy on set’: An oral history of Scrubs.I once assumed the downbeat wistfulness he brought to Garden State – his seminal, divisive and once inescapable 2004 directorial debut – was more an indie-film affectation than the real him, but as he talks about the tragedies that have defined the most recent years of his life, it starts to seem authentic. He’s also a lot more sensitive, too, with melancholy eyes and a fiddly half-smile. The 47-year-old actor and filmmaker is more ripped than you’d imagine – lean and wiry as opposed to the gangly daydreamer he embodied on long-running hospital comedy series Scrubs. It’s a nod to a scene in his new film, a drama about grief called A Good Person, but he says he also finds the expression “useful” day to day.īraff is sitting opposite me in a London hotel room in loose trousers and a tight navy T-shirt. We did a musical together called Bullets Over Broadway, and this is the happiest I remember him.” On Braff’s other forearm are the words amor fati, or Latin for “to love one’s fate”. “This is my friend Nick Cordero, who died of Covid. He taps the man drawn mid-dance, hand raised up in the air, on his right forearm. “My tattoos are mostly related to dying, and people that I’ve lost,” Braff continues. “But then he died and I went kind of crazy.” I see a skull. He stretches them out for me, his palms up. It does not store any personal data.Z ach Braff’s arms are inked in death. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. ![]()
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