Overview

• In an Aug. 19 episode of Amy Poehler’s Good Hang, Plaza offered her first extended public remarks about mourning while promoting her new film Honey Don't!.
• Plaza said she feels grateful to be moving through the world but described grieving as a “daily struggle.”
• She compared her feelings to The Gorge, describing a “giant ocean of awfulness” that is “always there.”
• Writer-director Jeff Baena, 47, was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Jan. 3; the county medical examiner ruled the death a suicide by hanging.
• Coroner records noted the couple had separated in September 2024 after a relationship that began in 2011 and a 2021 marriage, and they collaborated on films including Life After Beth and The Little Hours.