Zach Braff said the actor’s burnout resulted from his “insane hours that people don’t even do anymore.”
Zach Braff was given the chance to speak openly about how exhausted most of the core ensemble was during a recent interview on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast Inside of You. In the case of Mark, this actor is only 49 and alleged in fact that we were all sick to death of it after nine years.
And when asked if he was bored or thought they were just let’s-play-it-safe-ing, Braff said, “It’s not the boredom of it. He then went on to say he couldn’t laugh at anyone these days. Fried potatoes were plenty. You were doing this in Smallville when we were kids, Up in Vancouver working ridiculous hours — not anymore.
From 2001 to 2009, Scrubs held the highly coveted 9 p.m. Tuesday primetime slot, previously occupied by 30 Rock and Frasier. The medical comedy was well-received by its peers and drew in a substantial fan base. Two of the seventeen Emmys that were up for grabs went to the comedy.
Unfortunately, the show abruptly ended production in 2009, just before the conclusion of the eighth season. However, the show returned for a ninth and final season with significant alterations; for the last two episodes, “My Finale” served as a substitute title. The show added Kerry Bishé, Eliza Coupe, Dave Franco, and Michael Mosley as series regulars after Braff, Donald Faison, and John C. McGinley left. “Med School” annotated the credits to highlight the significant revisions that had taken place.
“We didn’t have much of a life outside of it,” Braff remembers, mentioning the brutal production schedule they were undertaking. “So, you know, we were just sort of fried.” Having said that Scrubs had a significant influence on his life, the actor and director from Garden State discusses how enjoyable the show was to watch. Every single day, I can’t help but crave the joyous sound of laughter. To get the job done, it was essential to laugh uncontrollably.
What Doctors? hosted by Braff and Faison The latest, Real Friends — a Scrubs podcast. Then he said, “It is not only me that was best friends with Donald. “It’s not just me.” He told Rosenbaum: “You were JUST in Montauk with Sarah Chalke,” noting that he and show creator Bill Lawrence would engage in bi-storied intertwined saunas and cold plunges every other day together. They also mentioned his longtime friendship with McGinley (who played the charmingly gruff Dr. Cox), adding, “Understand he’s still super tight” with Murphy, too. ·
Lawrence created both Ted Lasso and Shrinking. Braff now serves as the showrunner for both Ted Lasso and Shrinking.
“Now, with the benefit of hindsight, because there’s all this talk about reboots now—which is a different subject matter—I get so nostalgic when I think back to those days and that it would just be nice to laugh with these people again,” Jones said.
“Shows or whatever, when we signed up to do our shows, they put us under a pretty insane contract of like seven years and stuff that I wouldn’t do,” Zach Braff said. It is as though you are asking: “Do want to get the gang back together and have a great time with your best friends all while getting handsomely paid?”
