Florence Pugh has Zach Braff on her mind as her ex and collaborator celebrates his birthday.
21.03.2023 - 01:44 / etonline.com
Zach Braff channeled his grief into art. The filmmaker spoke with ET ahead of the premiere of his new film, , and shared how his late family and relationship with his ex-girlfriend Florence Pugh inspired the star-studded drama.«It's been about four years of a lot of loss,» Braff told ET's Rachel Smith, musing on the deaths of his sister, father, and close friend, Nick Cordero during the COVID lockdown in California.
«My best friend was staying in my guest house and he got Covid and eventually died at 41 years old leaving behind [his wife] Amanda Kloots and their young son… So when I sat down to write — because I had to write, I had to express myself in some way, there was nothing else to do during the pandemic — this is what came out of me.» «I wanted to write about grief and the daunting task of trying to stand back up again after loss,» he continued. Braff explained that Pugh is the inspiration for the story that would become . «I'm just in awe of her talent and I said, 'I wanna write this for Florence.
What I'm writing is really gonna be challenging and she's incredible,'» he recalled. follows Daniel (Morgan Freeman) and Allison (Florence Pugh), a once-thriving young woman who becomes addicted to opioids after being involved in an unimaginable tragedy that took Daniel's daughter's life. As a grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teenage granddaughter and Allison seeks redemption, they discover that friendship, forgiveness, and hope can flourish in unlikely places.Braff explained that he wrote the role with Pugh in mind because «she's a next-level actress.
Florence Pugh has Zach Braff on her mind as her ex and collaborator celebrates his birthday.
Florence Pugh is showing Zach Braff all the 48th birthday love! On Thursday, the actress took to Instagram Story to wish her ex-boyfriend a happy birthday.«Happy happy birthday to youuuu! The birthday wish has already come true I'm sure,» Pugh wrote over a picture of Braff in action directing from the backseat of a car. «Making a f**king awesome movie and people watching it with friends and family. Thanks for being an awesome director and making such a special set for everyone.» Pugh, 27, didn't let the birthday shout-out stop there.
Midsommar.In the psychological thriller, Pugh plays Dani who struggles following the death of her sister and the murder of her parents.In a new interview on Off Menu Podcast, Pugh revealed (via Consequence) that she’d “never played someone that was in that much pain before.”“I would put myself in really shitty situations that maybe other actors don’t need to do, but I would just be imagining the worst things,” she continued. “Each day the content would be getting more weird and harder to do.
The pace of arthouse /smart-house releases accelerated this weekend as wide-for-specialty openings like The Good Person and The Lost King joined a handful of solid single-theater openings from distributors Greenwich Entertainment, Sideshow/Janus Films, Mubi, Abramorama and Cinema Guild – all set for some expansion.
Florence Pugh is doing more than just acting in her new movie A Good Person.
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Florence Pugh is opening up about what the plans are for bringing her once-upon-a-time pandemic cooking show to the small screen.
A Good Person, which was released in cinemas today (March 24).Pugh confirmed her music would feature on the Zach Braff-directed film’s soundtrack back in January. Between 2013 and 2016, she had uploaded a string of acoustic covers of songs by artists such as Coldplay and The Lumineers to YouTube as Flossie Rose.
EXCLUSIVE: Actor-filmmaker Zach Braff has signed with Range Media Partners ahead of the MGM theatrical release of his newest directorial effort A Good Person, starring Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman.
Florence Pugh was all over New York City on Wednesday (March 22) promoting her brand new movie, A Good Person.
While Zach Braff might be best known for his comedic acting roles, his filmmaking ventures, specifically the three he’s written and directed, have primarily dealt with serious family dramas and that specific genre. Of course, everyone knows his 2007 breakout film, “Garden State,” or at least the memes, which tackles a quarter-life crisis and depression.
A wily old pro teams up with one of the most exciting young actresses of the day in the emotionally loaded drama A Good Person. Zach Braff’s third feature excels at taking the measure of how people cope with personal tragedy and does so in a vital and engaging way that’s far more invigorating than depressing. Braff essentially makes one feature film every 10 years (Garden State and Wish I Was Here came before), and while he otherwise busies himself with music, television and other pursuits, his talent is such that you’d like to see him wade more frequently and deeper into film work than he so far has.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic The drama of addiction and recovery, as it takes place in the movies, tends to come at us like a series of rituals. There’s the rule-by-rule, day-by-day protocol of 12-step programs (the meetings, the showing up, the sharing, the calls to sponsors); a lot of us may feel we know it well from movies, even if we’ve never personally undergone the experience. There are the deeply engraved patterns of addiction itself: the highs, the lows, the cravings, the exploitation of friends and family members, the descent to the bottom, the grasping for the drink or the pill or the fix (or the one that isn’t there) and, in some cases, the criminal behavior. The reaching out to save oneself is also a kind of ritual — one that some addicts would say God built into us.
has as of late made sheer her thing. Earlier this month, a completely sheer and sparkly Valentino maxi skirt over a thong at Paris Fashion Week. Now, she's taken the trend across the Atlantic, gracing the streets of New York City with her sheerness.On Tuesday, March 21, Pugh was spotted in NYC wearing a star-spangled sheer white dress over black briefs, which she styled with a heavy leather jacket and chunky black platform boots.
Zach Braff has nothing but mountains of praise for Florence Pugh.
Florence Pugh had a blast with her latest role.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Zach Braff was the toast of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where he emerged as an indie film wunderkind thanks to “Garden State.” The coming-of-age dramedy sold to Fox Searchlight for $5 million, double its production budget, and became a poster child for hip indies of the early aughts thanks to its Grammy-winning soundtrack and quirky characters. Flash forward to 2015, and Vice was celebrating the film’s anniversary with the following headline: “It’s the 10-Year Anniversary of Realizing ‘Garden State’ Sucked.” Time has not been kind to “Garden State.” It’s the kind of film that now elicits groans and eye-rolls since its arty blocking (that wallpaper!) and alt-rock soundtrack have become worn out indie film cliches. Natalie Portman’s character, Sam, is often cited as one of the worst offenders of the “manic pixie dream girl” stereotype, which describes a quirky female character whose main narrative purpose is to save their male counterpart and teach him about the meaning of love and life. Nearly 20 years after the film’s debut, Braff confronted the backlash head on in a new interview with The Independent.
Florence Pugh has no problem being her ex, Zach Braff's, muse. The 27-year-old actress is starring in Braff's new film,, in the lead role of Allison, which he specifically wrote for her.Pugh spoke with ET's Rachel Smith about the making of the film, calling it «such a special time.» Braff wrote the film as he was grieving the loss of several important people in his life, including his friend, Nick Cordero, who died of COVID-19 in 2020. The story, which follows Pugh's Allison as she works to overcome an opioid addiction in the wake of a tragic accident, handles a dark storyline with brevity.«We were living in that time where it was immense darkness and yet through the light of seeing our friends and laughing with our friends made it possible, and I think that's what Zach does so well is he's so good at writing people going through hard times but with that they constantly find levity and constantly find light,» Pugh shared. As for taking on a role specifically written for her, Pugh felt that slipping into the character had a different kind of ease. «Him writing for me, it's a luxury.
Zach Braff and Florence Pugh are no longer together. However, they are still friendly – so much so that they collaborated on their new movie A Good Person.
Florence Pugh gives a sweet kiss to her grandmother, Pat Mackin, at the premiere of her new movie, A Good Person.