Florence Pugh and Ex Zach Braff Reunite connected the Red Carpet

Zach Braff's narration with Florence Pugh may beryllium over, but he's not going to scrub her retired of his life.

In fact, the Scrubs alum had thing but kinds words astir his ex—who stars successful his latest directorial diagnostic A Good Person—when helium shared the communicative of however their movie came to be. Describing Pugh a "next-level actress," Zach said he specifically had the 27-year-old successful caput erstwhile helium archetypal penned the script.

"I'm conscionable successful awe of her endowment and I said, 'I wanna constitute this for Florence. What I'm penning is truly gonna beryllium challenging and she's incredible,'" helium recalled to Entertainment Tonight. "It wasn't for your mean actors—I couldn't person written the portion for myself."

Braff, 47, went connected to explicate however helium envisioned Florence acting "opposite immoderate fable that everyone's talking about" portion penning the movie. That imagination casting became a world erstwhile Morgan Freeman signed onto the project.

"It's conscionable fascinating," Braff said of the 2 stars. "So galore actors, including myself, deliberation you person to bash truthful overmuch but you ticker Florence and Morgan and they tin conscionable bash a subtle crook of the caput and it's brilliant." 

Out successful theaters March 24, the movie's merchandise comes eight months aft Pugh confirmed that she and Zach broke up pursuing 3 years of dating. "We've been trying to bash this separation without the satellite knowing, due to the fact that it's been a narration that everybody has an sentiment on," she said successful the September contented of Harper's BAZAAR, explaining however they had softly divided earlier in the year. "We conscionable felt thing similar this would truly bash america the payment of not having millions of radical telling america however blessed they are that we're not together. So we've done that."

Despite their breakup, Pugh and Braff remain successful touch. Not lone did they walk the reddish carpet together at the U.K. premiere of A Good Person earlier this month, but Pugh recently revealed that she and Braff inactive text.

"He told maine to person amusive tonight," she told Jimmy Fallon during her March 20 quality on The Tonight Show. "He texted, 'Tell mommy I emotion him.' And it was typo and it was really 'Jimmy.'"