09 Trashy Breakups: Don't Worry Baby | Florence Pugh and Zach Braff
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🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It's easy to forget, as we scroll our social media feeds, that there are real people on the far end of our comments. It's bad enough for us normies squabbling with our old co-worker from three jobs ago over the issues of the day, but for celebrities with massive followings, the peanut gallery can sting. It's a situation that actress Florence Pugh knows well. During her three-plus year long relationship with actor-writer-director Zach Braff, there was much to say about their 21-year age difference. So much so that they kept their 2022 breakup under wraps for months.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations, everybody, welcome to trashy divorces are midweek. Wednesday, Trashy Breakups |
| 0:17.7 | Edition. I'm Alicia. |
| 0:19.8 | My name is Stacey, and I have a story for us today that |
| 0:23.3 | goes all kinds of places. Yeah, for a film called Don't Worry, Darling, there seems to be a lot |
| 0:28.4 | of worrying going on. So you're going to catch us up with the kids these days? Kind of the kids |
| 0:34.0 | these days. This is actress Florence Pugh, who had dated actor director, Zach Braff for several years. They have now broken up. She's just revealed this in a big profile in Harper's Bazaar. Let's get into it. |
| 0:48.9 | So actress Florence Pugh has been on a serious hot streak over the last few years. |
| 1:00.7 | Starting in 2019, there was the film Midsummer, which I don't do horror movies, but I totally watched some of that because I needed the scenery of Sweden in the summer. |
| 1:04.9 | It was great. |
| 1:06.1 | And her Oscar-nominated portrayal as Amy March in Greta Gerwig's much-beloved little women, |
| 1:12.8 | and then her Marvel Cinematic Universe turn as Yelena Belova in Black Widow, |
| 1:19.0 | where she basically stole every scene she appeared in, |
| 1:21.5 | which is not an easy thing to do when you're playing opposite Scarlett Johansson. |
| 1:26.3 | And yes, I know Scarlett-Johansen court's controversy, but fight me on her being great on screen, |
| 1:31.5 | okay? |
| 1:33.5 | Florence did not embark on her meteoric rise alone, however. |
| 1:38.1 | In the summer of 2018, maybe, she met one Zach Braff, who became a star in the first decade of our fair century on |
| 1:46.7 | the network TV medical comedy Scrubs. Oh, yeah, I'd forgotten about Scrubs. Yeah, and later, |
| 1:52.0 | he won accolades for his manic pixie dream girl story Garden State, which he wrote, directed, |
| 1:58.4 | and starred in. In 2018, he was casting actors for a short film called In The Time It Takes to Get There, which ended up starring Florence and Alicia Silverstone. |
| 2:09.6 | Their friendship bloomed into a romance, and in what has to be, a sign of the times, it bloomed into a romance that social media users could not seem to |
| 2:19.1 | help themselves from commenting on. There is a 21-year age gap between the two. This prompted |
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