Zach Braff Quit His Restaurant Job After Landing Scrubs Pilot

Zach Braff was working at a restaurant when he booked Scrubs.

“I got Scrubs after six auditions,” the actor mentioned throughout a panel dialog with the present’s creator Bill Lawrence on the ATX TV Festival on Sunday, Jun. 1. “I was driving home and I put the Motorola StarTAC on the passenger seat, my phone rang and it was Bill and he said ‘you got it’ and I was so thrilled and my life was going to change.”

“Even if it was just the pilot, my life was changed forever because I was living so frugally,” Braff, 50, continued. 

Braff remembers how he known as his mother, dad and the supervisor of the restaurant the place he was working on the time and advised them “I received it!” 

“The supervisor mentioned ‘I’m so completely happy for you, however you need to work tonight.’ And I received hammered, and I used to be the worst waiter ever. I give up the job, and my Mom mentioned, ‘Why did you give up? What if it is simply the pilot?’ ” he recalled. “I had been residing so frugally and mentioned, ‘Do you understand how lengthy I might dwell off of the cash of this pilot?’ Like I had it dialed to dwell off like $12,000 a 12 months, so from the pilot I used to be like, ‘I’m wealthy!’ ”

From 2001 to 2010, Braff took on the position of J.D., the central doctor on the beloved medical comedy alongside his costars Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Christa Miller. For the sequence’ ninth and remaining season, Braff returned for six episodes because the season launched a brand new set of characters. During the present, the actor acquired three Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nod.

Braff just lately introduced he can be placing on his scrubs once more as Dr. Dorian in a much-talked-about reboot. 

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Lawrence additionally beforehand advised Deadline what he envisioned for the upcoming Scrubs reboot. The showrunner revealed that he anticipated the brand new sequence to function each the unique forged and new actors.

“We’ve been speaking about quite a bit, and I feel the one actual cause to do it’s a combo,” he defined. “A: folks eager to see what the world of medication was like for the folks they love, which is a part of any profitable reboot. But B: I feel that present all the time labored since you get to see younger folks dropped into the world of medication, realizing younger folks that go there are tremendous idealistic and are doing it as a result of it’s a calling.”

He added, “There’s no cliché ‘wealthy docs enjoying golf’ — that is not what it’s anymore. So I feel that, it doesn’t matter what it’s, it will be a large mistake to not do as a combo of these two issues.”