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Aubrey Plaza has described her grief over husband Jeff Baena’s demise, likening it to “a giant ocean of awfulness.”
The actor spoke on the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler, telling her former Parks and Recreation costar in her most detailed public remarks thus far that it’s been a each day wrestle to beat her grief. Writer-director Baena’s January demise at age 47 was dominated a suicide.
“Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning,” Plaza tells Poehler on the outset of their interview after being requested how she is coping. “I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I’m OK. But it’s like a daily struggle, obviously.”
She likens her grief to a picture from an Apple TV+ horror film starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.
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“Did you see that movie The Gorge?” Plaza asks Poehler. “In the movie, there’s a cliff on one side and then there’s a cliff on the other side, and there’s a gorge in between, and its filled with all these monster people trying to get them,” Plaza says. “And I swear when I watched it I was like, ‘That feels like what my grief is like,’ or what grief could be like … where it’s like at all times, there’s a giant ocean of awfulness that’s right there and I can see it.”
Plaza provides: “And sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just be in it, and sometimes I just look at it. And then sometimes I try to get away from it. But it’s just always there, and the monster people are trying to get me, like Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.”
Baena was a author and director who often collaborated with Plaza. He cowrote David O. Russell’s 2004 movie I Heart Huckabees and wrote and directed 5 of his personal movies. Plaza starred in his 2014 directorial debut, the zombie comedy Life After Beth.
After largely remaining silent since Baena’s demise, Plaza is now selling her new movie, Honey Don’t! The darkish comedy from director Ethan Coen has Margaret Qualley as a personal investigator trying into nefarious goings-on in Bakersfield, California.
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