The Scrubs reboot is set to be released on February 25 and leading man Zach Braff is ecstatic for the show to be back.
Zach became a household name thanks to the popular show which premiered back in 2001 and concluded in 2010.
© Getty ImagesImpressively, he reportedly has a hefty net worth of $20 million dollars.
Zach's career
The actor grew up studying theater at Stagedoor Manor. He continued his studies at Northwestern University School of Communication and graduated in 1997.
Zach got his professional start in the 1990s by appearing in The Baby-sitters Club, and in Manhattan Murder Mystery, however, it was his role as John Dorian in Scrubs that cemented him as an actor in Hollywood.
© Getty ImagesNot only was Zach interested in acting, but in directing as well. During his time on the set of Scrubs, he directed a few episodes, and then later on became an executive producer. Besides the hit series, he also directed, produced and acted in Garden State.
Zach ended up winning a Grammy for the Garden State's soundtrack in the Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media category in 2005.
Next he put out his film Wish I Was Here, which he also directed and starred in, in 2014.
Around the same time, he also served as the executive producer on Video Games: The Movie, and The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz.
© Getty ImagesThe actor was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award in 2021, for his directing of Ted Lasso, and he was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the same hit show.
Zach's thoughts on the Scrubs reebot
In 2023, he also produced, directed and wrote A Good Person. Now that Scrubs is making a huge return, Zach shows no signs of slowing down at 50.
When it came to creating the series' reboot, Zach had one important condition before signing back on. He revealed to Deadline: "We are real adults. Joking aside, one of the mandates from [Scrubs creator] Bill [Lawrence] and myself was, we don't want them to be children."
He continued: "Obviously, silly guys, but when things get serious, they drop in and they're adults, whether it's dealing with their children or dealing with relationships exploding, or, most importantly, dealing with the emergencies of the patients and teaching these young crop of interns, that's all played real."
© Getty ImagesIt's a full circle moment for not only the cast members but the set itself.
The rebooted show has recreated the original set and Zach was in disbelief when he saw it finally come together.
He expressed: "I never thought it would be 100% accurate or to scale, I thought it would be like 65% to scale. It's over 30,000 square feet. It is pretty much every place we shot in the old, abandoned hospital recreated on stage, just extraordinary work by the production designer and his team."
Zach added: "It used to be the old hospital on Riverside and Whitsett, for those in L.A. that read this and know where that is, and literally, you'll be in the set, and you'll go, 'oh, that’s Riverside that way.' The drop actually looks so real that looks out north in the Valley, it's very, very, very surreal."
