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“Overall, I’m here and I’m functioning,” Plaza tells Poehler at
the outset of their interview after being asked how she is
coping. “I feel really grateful to be moving through the world.
I think I’m OK. But it’s like a daily struggle, obviously.”
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She likens her grief to an image from an Apple TV+ horror movie
starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.
“Did you see that movie ‘The Gorge?’” Plaza asks Poehler. “In
the movie, there’s a cliff on one side and then there’s a cliff
on the other side, and there's a gorge in between, and its
filled with all these monster people trying to get them,” Plaza
says. “And I swear when I watched it I was like, ‘That feels
like what my grief is like,’ or what grief could be like … where
it's like at all times, there’s a giant ocean of awfulness
that’s right there and I can see it."
Plaza adds: "And sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just
be in it, and sometimes I just look at it. And then sometimes I
try to get away from it. But it’s just always there, and the
monster people are trying to get me, like Miles Teller and Anya
Taylor-Joy.”
Baena was a writer and director who frequently collaborated with
Plaza. He cowrote David O. Russell’s 2004 film “I Heart
Huckabees” and wrote and directed five of his own films. Plaza
starred in his 2014 directorial debut, the zombie comedy “Life
After Beth.”
After largely remaining silent since Baena’s death, Plaza is now
promoting her new film, “Honey Don't!” The dark comedy from
director Ethan Coen has Margaret Qualley as a private
investigator looking into nefarious goings-on in Bakersfield,
California.
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