Aubrey Plaza opens with the death of the husband in mourning: “ it is a daily struggle, obviously ”

Actor Aubrey Plaza appeared on Parks and leisure The co-star podcast Amy Poehler Good hang Tuesday, opening the death of her husband Jeff Baena.

Baena, director and writer behind independent successes ranging from the absurd drama I heart Huckabes at black comedy Little hoursdied in January at 47 years old. His death was considered to be suicide.

“People want to see you and see how you are,” said Poehler at the start of the interview. “You had this terrible and terrible tragic year. … On behalf of all the people who feel like you are, and the people who know you, how do you feel today?”

“Overall, I am here and I work, and I am really grateful to move around the world,” replied Plaza. “I’m fine. But, you know, it’s a daily struggle, of course.”

Plaza then compared the experience of sorrow at Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy-Dirigé by the film Throat. This film in 2025, she explained, presented a pit full of violence, monsters and darkness surrounded by two big cliffs.

“It feels what my sorrow looks like,” she said. “At all times, there is an ocean giant Horre who is right there, and I can see him. And sometimes I just want to immerse it and be there. And sometimes I look at him. And sometimes I just try to get away.

The pair then discussed other subjects for a large part of the hour, from growth, including the internship to Saturday Night Live When will the two met for the first time during the filming of the promotions to Parks and leisure. Towards the end of the episode, Poehler returned to the previous discussion; After Plaza admitted that she does not often laugh at the comedy, Poehler asked Plaza what makes her laugh. “How do you stay above the line?” Addition of Poehler. “How do you stay on the cliff and not in the throat?”

It was a question, admitted Poehler, who “probably takes more import” given the year of Plaza. In response, Plaza cited a group of close friends: members of his improvisation group, Bombardo.

“We have a text chain, we zoom and make travel-these girls make me laugh really, really difficult,” she said. “It’s the best thing that makes me laugh: all my funny friends.”

Plaza appeared on the podcast to promote his recent film, Ethan Coen Chérie is not! – His first film since the death of Baena. In this document, a private investigator in a small town played by Margaret Qualley stumbles on a series of mysterious deaths linked to a local church. Plaza plays a police officer in the film, who opens this Friday. Recently, she appeared in the Marvel series Agatha from the startsurreal comedy My old ass and the epic Francis Ford Coppola Megalopolis.

Baena and Plaza were frequent collaborators in the cinema sector. Baena was going out with Plaza for three years before playing in her beginnings as a director in 2014, the comedy Zombie Life after Beth. His next film, 2016 JoshyPresented Thomas Middleditch as a man who meets with friends of the months after his fiancée committed suicide.

In a 2017 interview with Marc Maron, Baena said it was “incredible” to work with Plaza, who appeared in four of his five films.

“The opportunities to create together, to do something creative where we are both satisfied, it’s how it is rare? It is broken and it is so talented, so I’m really lucky,” said Baena.

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