Zach Braff Reveals He and BFF Donald Faison Are 'Like a Married Couple': 'I Can't Quit Him' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Zach BraffandDonald Faison’s friendship is clearly more than a showmance.

“We get annoyed with each other and we just let it slide off our backs,” the 49-year-old said. “Sometimes I want to kill him but then I realize I can’t quit him and we love each other.”

Braff is godfather to Faison’s two childrenwithwife CaCee Cobb, daughterWilder Frances, 9, and sonRocco, 11. “We’re just very close,” he added.

When asked what the secret to their long-lasting partnership is, Braff replied that it’s “the same thing to any relationship: communicating and not letting trivial things get in the way.”

One not-so-trivial item on the pair’s to-do list: the possibility of reuniting for aScrubsrevival, which series creatorBill Lawrence said was happening in 2022. The beloved medical-themed comedy series ran from 2001 to 2010.

Zach Braff and Donald Faison on a 2005 episode of ‘Scrubs’.Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

“It’ll be interesting if and when it happens to see what the character’s like,” Faison toldPEOPLE in 10of his character, Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian. “He’s a grown-ass man, he’s not a child anymore. I’ve always said to Bill that it’d be interesting to se him having lost some of that joie de vivre, and wanting to find it back in his life in some way.”

His idea is perhaps to have him “reunite with his friends in whatever the story is, [and that’s] the way he sort of brings some of his youth back into who he is now. To me that would be an interesting story to tell.”

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For now though, he remains focused onBad Monkey,which costarsVince Vaughn.

“I’m such a massive fan of Vince’s,” Braff said, adding that doing scenes with him was a “bucket list item.”

“He’s just a really big personality. He is that guy,” the actor continued. “He never says the same thing twice — he sort of takes the script and runs with it. And then Vince Vaughn-ifies it.”

source: people.com