- Zach Braff and Natalie Portman reunited to have fun the twentieth anniversary of Backyard State at a profit live performance in Los Angeles
- Musicians like Sophie Barker and Zero Severn, Cary Brothers, Thievery Company, Colin Hay, Milk Carton Youngsters, Iron and Wine, Laufey, From Frou and The Shins carried out songs from the film
- “You assume I used to be going to overlook this particular night time? No method,” Portman mentioned throughout a shock look onstage
Zach Braff and Natalie Portman celebrated 20 years of Backyard State for a very good trigger.
On Saturday, March 29, Braff, 49, hosted the Backyard State twentieth anniversary live performance on the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, which featured performances from a number of of the musicians from the soundtrack of his debut as a writer-director, which premiered on the Sundance Movie Competition in 2004. The night time’s proceeds benefited the L.A. based mostly homeless shelter The Midnight Mission.
After Braff kicked off the night by recalling how he felt when he first moved to L.A. in 1999 and the way it impressed his character Andrew, he launched Portman as a shock visitor.
“It was, in fact, my dream that Natalie Portman would have the ability to be right here tonight, however she lives in Paris, so it wasn’t precisely possible for Natalie to have the option,” Braff started, earlier than Portman appeared onstage to applause.
“Properly, desires come true and sidecars are for bitches,” she mentioned, in reference to certainly one of her character’s iconic moments from the film. “You assume I used to be going to overlook this particular night time? No method. These unimaginable artists have by no means performed collectively on the identical stage, and who is aware of if it will ever occur once more.”
Braff’s associates and Scrubs costars Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke additionally appeared on the occasion, as did Danny Devito and Sarah Paulson. Braff and Faison sang Taylor Swift’s 2022 hit “Anti-Hero” collectively throughout the present to focus on a silent public sale that included a guitar signed by Swift.
Jean Sensible, who appeared within the film as Carol, appeared on the occasion by way of video message, the place she mentioned she was “so sorry” she couldn’t attend.
“I really like that character that I performed within the film. I name her skank mother, and it’ll go down as certainly one of my favorites. However that is for a beautiful, fantastic trigger. Zach, thanks a lot for placing this collectively,” she mentioned, earlier than introducing Bonnie Somerville because the night time’s first musical act.
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Different musicians who carried out included Sophie Barker and Zero Severn, Cary Brothers, Thievery Company, Colin Hay, Milk Carton Youngsters, Iron and Wine, Laufey, From Frou and The Shins. The live performance ended with every of these musicians returning to the stage to sing Tom Petty’s 1989 traditional “Free Fallin'” collectively. Braff received a Grammy Award for compiling the film’s soundtrack.
Coldplay, who appeared on Backyard State‘s soundtrack, didn’t attend the occasion; the band is at the moment on a world tour that sees them journey to Hong Kong for concert events between April 8 and 12.
Along with Braff, Portman and Sensible, Backyard State starred Peter Sarsgaard, who was not current on the occasion, in addition to the late Ian Holm, who died in 2020 at 89, and Jackie Hoffman and Jim Parsons.
The film follows Braff’s character Andrew as he strikes from Los Angles to his hometown in New Jersey to mourn the dying of his mom and meets Portman’s Sam, a pathological liar whom he falls in love with.
Backyard State is at the moment streaming on Hulu.
