{"id":105458,"date":"2025-08-24T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105458\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:45:07","slug":"the-gorge-director-on-aubrey-plazas-touching-comments-about-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105458\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Gorge’ Director On Aubrey Plaza’s ‘Touching’ Comments About Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Gorge<\/a> filmmaker Scott Derrickson<\/a> responded to Aubrey Plaza<\/a>\u2018s recent comments about the Apple TV+<\/a> movie helping her process her grief over her late husband Jeff Baena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a new interview with Entertainment Weekly<\/a>, the director noted he was affected by the Parks and Recreation alumna\u2019s \u201cvery touching\u201d words and how much it meant considering his \u201cpersonal fondness\u201d for the actress.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI mean, how could I not be moved by that?\u201d the Emmy nominee said. \u201cIt was very touching. I think she was being really earnest and, of course, it makes you as a filmmaker feel good that your work is out there giving people experiences and helping them define their own feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Black Phone and Doctor Strange helmer continued, \u201cI don\u2019t think it was something unique to\u00a0The Gorge. I think that she just happened to talk about it the way I\u2019ve talked about movies giving clarity to my own experiences and my own feelings many times.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier this week, the Honey Don\u2019t actress appeared on Amy Poehler\u2019s Good Hang podcast, where her friend and former co-star gave her space to talk about how she is coping with Baena\u2019s death<\/a>. The Agatha All Along star compared her grief to the open chasm depicted in the action horror sci-fi, which separates two snipers played by Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy Plaza, adding that while the analogy began as a joke, it also represents how she feels.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt all times, there\u2019s a giant ocean of awfulness, that\u2019s right there and I can see it, and sometimes I just wanna just dive into it and be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it. Then sometimes I try to get away from it, but it\u2019s always there,\u201d she said in part.<\/p>\n

\n\tBaena \u2014 a screenwriter and director best known for\u00a0projects like Life After Beth\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0The Little Hours\u00a0(2017), both of which starred Plaza \u2014\u00a0died at the age of 47<\/a> in January of this year as a result of suicide<\/a>. At the time of his death, Plaza released a statement, writing<\/a>, \u201cThis is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support.\u201d The filmmaker was\u00a0lovingly remembered<\/a>\u00a0in tributes from Alison Brie, Adam Pally, Molly Shannon and many others.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Gorge filmmaker Scott Derrickson responded to Aubrey Plaza\u2018s recent comments about the Apple TV+ movie helping her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5896,46714,88,64136,69962,64137],"class_list":{"0":"post-105458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-apple-tv","9":"tag-aubrey-plaza","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jeff-baena","12":"tag-scott-derrickson","13":"tag-the-gorge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}