Zach Braff told reporters why he decided to cast Florence Pugh in his new movie The Good Man. “I’m just in awe of her talent and said, ‘I want to write this for Florence. What I’m writing will be difficult, but she’s amazing,” he told Entertainment Tonight.
Florence Pugh in The Good Man (2023).
image source: MGM.
Braff and Pugh lived together for three years and broke up in early 2022. However, they did so on an amicable basis, leaving room for each other to work together. “She’s a next-level actress. I think she’s just amazing and what I wrote was really challenging,” Zach said. “It wasn’t a project for the average actor – I couldn’t even write a role for myself. I wanted to write something for her, and that dinner table scene came to me. in mind, in which I imagined Florence Pugh sitting in front of the legend everyone is talking about.
Ultimately, the “legend” of the movie was Morgan Freeman, who doesn’t usually star in independent projects. But he liked Braff’s idea. In the film, he played the wise Daniel, who helps lead character Allison (Pugh) deal with tragedy and find a taste for life. The Good Man was released on March 12.
