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Aubrey Plaza on her husband’s death: “Unimaginable tragedy”
US filmmaker Jeff Baena died last week. His wife has now commented on her husband’s death.
After the death of US director and screenwriter Jeff Baena, his wife Aubrey Plaza spoke out. “This is an unimaginable tragedy,” says a statement from Plaza and the Baenas family, which is available to dpa. “We are deeply grateful to everyone who has offered us their support.” Plaza, 40, and the family asked for their privacy to be respected.
According to the coroner’s office, director and screenwriter Baena was found dead in a house on Friday. He was 47 years old. Several US media outlets reported, citing forensic science, that the actor had taken his own life.
Baena also made a name for himself as a screenwriter
Plaza (“Megalopolis”, “Parks and Recreation”, “The White Lotus”) and Baena married in 2021 after ten years of dating. Plaza appeared in Baena’s films “Life After Beth” (2014), “The Little Hours” (2017) and “Spin Me Round” (2022), among others.
Baena was also known in the independent scene as a screenwriter. Together with director David O. Russell (“Silver Linings”, “American Hustle”) he wrote the script for the biting comedy “I Heart Huckabees” (2004) about the search for meaning and life crises, which starred Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Isabelle Huppert and Lily Tomlin was made into a film.
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Source: Stern
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