The Little Hours<\/em>, died in January\u00a0at age 47. His death was ruled a suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n“People want to see you\u00a0and see how you are,” Poehler said early in the interview. “You’ve had this terrible, terrible tragic year.\u2026\u00a0On behalf of all the people that feel like they know you, and the people who do know you, how are you feeling today?”<\/p>\n
“Overall I’m here and I’m functioning, and I feel really grateful to be moving through the world,” Plaza responded. “I’m OK. But, you know, it’s a daily struggle, obviously.”<\/p>\n
Plaza then compared the experience of grief to the Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy-led movie The Gorge<\/em>. That 2025 film, she explained, featured a\u00a0pit full of violence, monsters and darkness surrounded by two tall cliffs.<\/p>\n“That feels what my grief is like,” she said. “At all times, there’s a giant ocean of awfulness that’s right there, and I can see it.<\/p>\n
“And sometimes, I just want to dive into it and be in it. And sometimes, I just look at it. And sometimes, I just try to get away from it. But it’s always there, and the monster people are trying to get me. Like Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy.”<\/p>\n
The pair then discussed other topics for much of the hour, from growing up, to interning at Saturday Night Live\u00a0<\/em>to when the two first met while filming promos for Parks and Recreation<\/em>.<\/p>\nNear\u00a0the end of the episode, Poehler returned to the earlier discussion; after Plaza admitted she doesn’t often laugh when watching comedy, Poehler asked Plaza what does make her laugh.\u00a0“How do you stay above the line?” Poehler asked.\u00a0“How do you stay on the cliff and not in the gorge?”<\/p>\n
It was a question, Poehler admitted, that likely “takes on more import” given Plaza’s year. In response, Plaza cited a group of close friends:\u00a0members of her improv group, Bombardo.<\/p>\n
“We have a text chain, we do Zooms and we do trips \u2014 those girls make me laugh really, really hard,” she said. “That’s the best thing that makes me laugh: all my funny friends.”<\/p>\n
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Jeff Baena, left, writer and director of Life After Beth, poses with cast member and then-girlfriend Aubrey Plaza at the premiere of the film at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival in January 2014 in Park City, Utah. (Chris Pizzello\/Invision\/The Associated Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nPlaza appeared\u00a0on the podcast\u00a0to promote her recent film, Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t!<\/em> \u2014 her first film since Baena’s death. In it, a small-town private investigator played by Margaret Qualley stumbles upon a series of mysterious deaths connected to a local church. Plaza plays a police officer in the film, which opens this Friday. Recently, she appeared in the Marvel series Agatha All Along<\/em>, surrealist\u00a0comedy My Old Ass<\/em>\u00a0and the Francis Ford Coppola epic Megalopolis<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\nBaena and Plaza were\u00a0frequent collaborators in the movie business. Baena had been dating Plaza for three years before she starred in his 2014 directorial debut, the zombie comedy Life After Beth<\/em>. His next film, 2016’s Joshy<\/em>, featured Thomas Middleditch as a man who gets together with friends months after his fianc\u00e9e killed herself.\u00a0<\/p>\nIn a 2017 interview with Marc Maron, Baena said that it was “amazing” to work with Plaza, who appeared in four of his five films.<\/p>\n
“The opportunities to create together, to do something creative where we’re both fulfilled, it’s like how rare is that? She’s down and she’s so talented, so I’m really lucky,” Baena said.<\/p>\n
If you or someone you know is struggling, here’s where to get help:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThis guide from the\u00a0Centre for Addiction and Mental Health<\/u><\/a>\u00a0outlines how to talk about suicide with someone you’re worried about.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cbc.ca \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Aubrey Plaza appeared on Parks and Recreation\u00a0co-star Amy Poehler’s podcast Good Hang\u00a0on Tuesday, opening up about the death of her husband, Jeff Baena. Baena, a director and writer behind\u00a0indie successes ranging from absurdist drama I Heart Huckabees to black comedy The Little Hours, died in January\u00a0at age 47. His death was ruled a suicide.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Aubrey-Plaza-opens-up-about-grieving-husbands-death-Its-a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}