Zach Braff Says He and Ex Florence Pugh 'Love Each Other a Lot' — and She Still 'Gives Approvals' on His Outfits

Mar. 15, 2025

Florence Pugh and Zach Braff on March 8, 2023.Photo: Jeff Spicer/Getty

Zach Braffsays he and ex-girlfriendFlorence Pughstill remain fond of each other.

Braff, 48, recentlyappeared onSiriusXM’sThe Jess Cagle Showto discuss his movieA Good Person, which starred Pugh, 27, and released earlier this year. Braff wrote and directed the film while he and Pugh were still together. Pugh revealed in August 2022 that theyquietly broke upafter dating for three years.

“Well, we love each other. We love each other and we’re friends, and I was on theTodayshow this morning, and she said she wanted to see pictures of what my outfit was to give approvals, so we love each other a lot,” Braff said of Pugh on the radio program.

“Listen, I think it’s pretty clear across the world that I’m not biased when I say that she is one of the finest actresses working today and I think anyone who gives watchingA Good Persona chance will see that she’s just extraordinary,” he added. “I just feel so lucky that I got to have her be my leading lady.”

Florence Pugh, Zoe Lister-Jones, Molly Shannon and Zach Braff.Dominik Bindl/WireImage

InA Good Person, Pugh plays a woman named Allison, who is struggling with addiction and depression after her engagement to her high school sweetheart was called off following her involvement in a car crash that killed her would-be sister-in-law. Allison forms an unlikely friendship with her would-be father-in-law Daniel (Morgan Freeman) as she seeks help.

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Braff has said that he wroteA Good Personspecifically for Pugh to show off her acting chops.

“I’m just in awe of her talent and I said, ‘I wanna write this for Florence. What I’m writing is really gonna be challenging, and she’s incredible,’ " he toldEntertainment Tonightin March, addingthat Pugh is “a next-level actress"and “just unbelievable.”

“I wanted to write something for her and I had this image in my mind of that diner-booth scene and I thought of Florence Pugh opposite some legend that everyone’s talking about,” he shared at the time.

Florence Pugh and Zach Braff.Frazer Harrison/Getty / John Shearer/Getty

The pairappeared together on the red carpetto promoteA Good Personin the spring following their breakup. Braff has effused praise for Pugh’s performances throughout this year, tellingVoguein January that he believes Pugh is “one of the greatest actors of her generation.”

“She’s just magnetic. You cannot take your eyes off of her,” he shared at the time. “And it’s not just her beauty and it’s not just her acting ability, it’s that thing, that magic thing that transcends the screen, where anyone and everyone goes: I want to see whatever this person does.”

source: people.com