Florence Pugh on Making Movie ‘A Good Person’ With Zach Braff: ‘I Only Pick Very Intense Roles’
variety.comK.J. Yossman Florence Pugh and Zach Braff reunited in London on Wednesday evening for the premiere of their movie “A Good Person,” which Braff wrote, directed and produced and which Pugh starred in and produced.
In the film, Pugh stars opposite Morgan Freeman as a young woman who descends into opioid addiction after a car she is driving is involved in a serious crash.
During a Q&A session after the screening, Braff told the audience he wrote the screenplay for Pugh during the COVID-19 lockdown while still grappling with grief over the deaths of his sister and father in 2018 followed by his close friend Nick Cordero, who died from COVID complications in 2020. “I wanted to tell the story because I was feeling these emotions.
I lost a bunch of people in my life that were very important to me,” Braff said. “We were in lockdown and it was time to write.
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