He was 47 years old.<\/p>\n
If you or anyone you know needs help:<\/p>\n
Plaza spoke about her grief on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast, with the pair having worked together for years on the sitcom Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n
In the interview, Plaza compared her grief to the horror film The Gorge, staring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.<\/p>\n
“In the movie, there’s a cliff on one side and a cliff on the other side then there’s like a gorge in between and it’s filled with all these monster people that are trying to get them,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I swear when I watched it I was like, that feels like what my grief is like.<\/p>\n
“At all times there’s a giant ocean of awfulness that’s right there and I can see it.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes I just want to dive into it and just be in it. And then sometimes I just look at it. And then sometimes I just try to get away from it \u2014 but it’s always there.”Grief a ‘daily struggle’<\/p>\n
Plaza and Baena began dating in 2011 and the pair married in 2021.<\/p>\n
In March, a medical examiner’s report confirmed the pair separated four months before Baena’s death.<\/p>\n
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Aubrey Plaza featured in multiple Jeff Baena films. (AP: Invision\/Willy Sanjuan)<\/p>\n
Plaza starred in Baena’s directorial debut, the 2014 zombie comedy Life After Beth, and appeared in two of his other films, The Little Hours and Spin Me Round.<\/p>\n
In 2009 she shot to fame on Parks and Recreation, working alongside Poehler as well Nick Offerman, Chris Pratt, and later Adam Scott.<\/p>\n
In 2023, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role on the second season of The White Lotus, and then starred in the Marvel television series Agatha All Along.<\/p>\n
She appeared on Poehler’s podcast to promote her latest film, Honey Don’t!, which also stars Margaret Qualley.<\/p>\n
“Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world,” Plaza said.<\/p>\n
“But it’s like a daily struggle, obviously.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Aubrey Plaza has spoken for the first time about the sudden death of her husband earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[61403,64,42822,63,1300,134,61405,6084,61402,3755,61404],"class_list":{"0":"post-80964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-amy-poehler","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-aubrey-plaza","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-death","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-good-hang","15":"tag-grief","16":"tag-jeff-baena","17":"tag-podcast","18":"tag-the-gorge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}