For a while, Zach Braff was embraced as an everyman – even by himself. His breakthrough role as quirky doctor John “JD” Dorian in 00s medical sitcom Scrubs marked the emergence of a new, accessible sort of star: a pinup, but the sort who resembled your college roommate, rather than the enigmatic smoothies who were then ruling the silver screen.
“JD was designed to feel accessible,” Braff says on a video call. “He wasn’t meant to be like Leo DiCaprio or someone that you’d be like, ‘Oh my God, look how handsome and perfect.’”
