For years, the Scrubs star was a poster-boy for neurotic boys-next-door, but he’s reaching maturity with A Good Person, the new film in which he directed his former partner Florence Pugh
or a while, Zach Braff was embraced as an everyman – even by himself. His breakthrough role as quirky doctor John “JD” Dorian in 00s medical sitcommarked the emergence of a new, accessible sort of star: a pinup, but the sort who resembled your college roommate, rather than the enigmatic smoothies who were then ruling the silver screen.
Over the course of the programme’s nine-year run, Braff played ball with his role as the poster-boy for boys-next-door. “I’m just like every other guy,” became. But over the years, the actor, writer and director, now 47, became detached from the idea. Maybe he wasn’t so average, after all. “I used to think everyone must be this anxious, battling depression and loneliness,” he says. “But I don’t know that they do. I’ve met people that aren’t neurotic and in their heads all the time.
A Good Person is about how grief tears at the fabric of life. The film follows Allison , a once-thriving young woman whose world crumbles when she is involved in a fatal car crash that kills her future sister-in-law. As she spirals into depression and substance abuse, an unlikely friendship with her would-be father-in-law might just save her.
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