Jeff Baena and actress Aubrey Plaza Chad Hurst/Getty Photographs for Sundance Movie Competition
Celebrities are talking out and voicing their heartbreak and help for Aubrey Plaza following the premature passing of her husband, Jeff Baena.
“No phrases can contact this painful time,” actress Selma Blair wrote on Plaza’s most up-to-date Instagram submit on Saturday, January 4. “Solely love and energy and help from everybody. I’m so sorry.”
Actress Julia Fox additionally shared her condolences within the feedback part, writing, “Sending you a lot love” and sharing a dove emoji.
In the meantime, Alison Brie, who labored with Baena and Plaza on numerous tasks, posted a sequence of images on her Instagram Tales on Sunday, January 5, that includes the late filmmaker. She posted a damaged coronary heart emoji on the primary {photograph}, that includes the pair posing for the digicam.
The indie screenwriter and movie director was discovered lifeless on Friday, January 3, in response to health worker information reviewed by Us Weekly. The reason for demise was listed as suicide, in response to the identical information, and a medical examination was carried out. No different particular circumstances or causes of demise have been listed. Deadline and TMZ have been the primary to report the information of Baena’s passing.
Plaza, 40, first met Baena in 2011. Although the pair stored their relationship comparatively personal, the Parks and Recreation actress confirmed they tied the knot in 2020 throughout COVID-19 lockdown.
“We bought somewhat bored one night time,” Plaza recalled on the Ellen DeGeneres Present in December 2021. “We bought married and I’ll inform you how: Onehourmarriage.com. That’s actual, look it up.”
Greatest identified for co-writing the 2004 movie I Coronary heart Huckabees, which was nominated for a 2004 Gotham Award for Greatest Function, Baena additionally labored with Plaza on Life After Beth, the 2014 horror/comedy that served as his directorial debut.
“She’s superior. I’d be working along with her if she wasn’t my spouse, however fortunately she is my spouse,” Baena instructed Reel Talker in August 2022. “The chance to do one thing inventive [together] the place we’re each fulfilled — how uncommon is that?”
Whereas Plaza has but to publicly touch upon her husband’s passing, different Hollywood A-listers and celebrities are talking out in help of the actress throughout such a horrible time and within the wake of such a profound loss. Listed below are only a few who’ve given their public condolences and mirrored on the life and legacy of Baena.
Adam Pally
The comic and actor shared a touching tribute to Baena by way of an Instagram post shared on Sunday, January 5. Along with sharing images of the late filmmaker, Pally wrote a heartfelt message providing his condolences to his buddy, Plaza.
“Jeff Baena was a candy Jewish boy from Miami. He was a collaborator, a mentor, the scrappiest basketball participant with the ugliest bounce shot you ever noticed. He was a gifted director with impeccable style and imaginative and prescient, he was a connector of individuals, a fosterer of risk, the man who is aware of the place the very best restaurant was irrespective of the place you have been,” Pally wrote in a screenshot shared by way of the identical Instagram submit.
“A very gracious host with an nearly disturbing open door coverage, a movie encyclopedia, and most vital to me a buddy,” he continued within the assertion. “As a director Jeff strove for the reality. Nothing might sound, look or really feel inauthentic, and that could be a direct illustration of who Jeff was. Genuine. You by no means frightened that Jeff wasn’t telling you the way in which it’s. Trigger Jeff’s advantage was telling you the way in which it was. My coronary heart breaks for my buddy Aubrey and the Baena household and for all of us who hung out on his units or at his home or in his orbit. Thanks for believing in me, Jeff, might your reminiscence be a blessing.”
Selma Blair
Shortly after information broke of Baena’s passing, the Merciless Intentions star made a touching touch upon Plaza’s most up-to-date Instagram submit.
“No phrases can contact this painful time,” she wrote on the time. “Solely love and energy and help from everybody. I’m so sorry.”
Molly Shannon
The Saturday Night time Stay alum posted a carousel of images that includes Breana on her Instagram, tagging the late screenwriter and posting a damaged coronary heart emoji. Plaza was featured in a number of of the photographs, together with a photograph of Shannon and The White Lotus star posing for the digicam and Plaza sitting beside her late husband.
Brie, actress Olivia Munn, and different celebrities posted damaged emojis (together with a coronary heart and a damaged coronary heart emoji) within the feedback part of Shannon’s submit.
Julia Fox
The actress and trend influencer posted a brief however candy message to Plaza’s newest Instagram submit, writing, “Sending you a lot love” and posting a dove emoji.
Alison Brie
Alison Brie Courtesy of Alison Brie/Instagram
Brie labored on numerous tasks alongside Plaza and her late husband, together with the movie Joshy.
“Jeff [came] to the set of Group in our sixth season and requested me to play a small function in his movie, Joshy,” Brie recalled of working with Baena throughout a 2022 interview with Collider. “There was no script for that. All of his movies that I’ve been concerned with, previous to this one, have been totally improvised. So, he got here to my dressing [room]. We set a gathering, and he got here to fulfill me. … I knew quite a lot of the solid members in that film. Nick Kroll, Jenny Slate and Adam Pally have been pals of mine. I simply thought, “Yeah, that sounds enjoyable to do.” It was someday. I’m in two scenes in that film. I assumed the story was cool. After which, it simply grew from there.”
On Sunday, January 5, Brie shared a sequence of images to her Instagram Tales that includes the late filmmaker, together with images of the 2 posing for the digicam. On the primary {photograph}, she posted a damaged coronary heart emoji.
Debby Ryan
Jeff Baena and Debby Ryan Courtesy of Debby Ryan/Instagram
The actress took to Instagram on June 29, six months after Baena’s demise, to share an emotional tribute to her late buddy {and professional} collaborator. The submit was uploaded on what would have been Baena’s forty eighth birthday.
“Glad birthday Jeff ✨Bear with me, I’ve by no means been a public griever, and have a tough time sharing fragile emotions with strangers. In the meantime I’ve considered him on daily basis for the previous six months,” Ryan captioned a carousel of photos that charted their friendship. “Months of discoveries of the issues he left behind; and the items he continues to provide me and those that he shone his gentle on. Thanks for all of it, Jeff. Love you dude. ✨ and pleased birthday.”
