{"id":94588,"date":"2025-08-19T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94588\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T15:18:07","slug":"aubrey-plaza-says-grief-for-husband-jeff-baena-is-a-daily-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94588\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey Plaza Says Grief For Husband Jeff Baena Is A “Daily Struggle”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAubrey Plaza<\/a> has opened up about the grief she is experiencing for her late husband, Jeff Baena<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAppearing on the Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast, Plaza told her Parks and Recreation co-star that life was a \u201cdaily struggle\u201d since Baena died by suicide in January<\/a>, but she remains \u201creally grateful to be moving through the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a brief exchange about how she is coping, The White Lotus star likened her grief to The Gorge<\/a>, the action-horror movie starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy. Plaza said the analogy began as a joke, but also represents how she feels.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Gorge chronicles how two highly-trained snipers occupy guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from a mysterious evil that lurks within. Plaza said her grief is the chasm that separates the towers.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe explained: \u201cAt all times, there\u2019s a giant ocean of awfulness, that\u2019s right, like 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 \u2014 and the monster people are trying to get me like Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBaena was a screenwriter and film director best known for Life After Beth (2014), Joshy (2016), The Little Hours\u00a0(2017),\u00a0Horse Girl\u00a0(2020), and\u00a0Spin Me Round\u00a0(2022). He was 47 when he died and married Plaza in 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the time of his death, Plaza released a statement saying: \u201cThis is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered support.\u201d News of Baena\u2019s passing sent shockwaves through Hollywood. The filmmaker was\u00a0lovingly remembered<\/a>\u00a0in tributes from Alison Brie, Adam Pally, Molly Shannon, and many more.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aubrey Plaza has opened up about the grief she is experiencing for her late husband, Jeff Baena. Appearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[46714,88,64136,64137],"class_list":{"0":"post-94588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-aubrey-plaza","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jeff-baena","11":"tag-the-gorge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94588","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=94588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}