The Scrubs revival, which premieres Feb. 25 on ABC, is bringing again J.D. (Zach Braff) and the gang — in addition to a few of their signature antics. That features J.D. and Turk’s well-known Eagle. Because the trailer for the brand new collection revealed, recreating the Eagle years later didn’t go and not using a hitch as Turk (Donald Faison) collapsed on the ground with J.D. on his again.
“The stuntman broke his face open just about,” Faison mentioned of the scene, through which the actors used stunt doubles.
Added Braff, “We solely did one take of it, and that’s what you’re seeing, as a result of he fell so onerous onto the ground and minimize his eye. We’ve our onset physician, who’s our advisor, he took one take a look at and he’s like,’Yeah, you want a sew.’ And we’re like, ‘All proper, Take One it’s.’”
Faison was fast to make clear that “I can nonetheless Eagle. I’m nonetheless very robust,” with Braff explaining, “Yeah, Donald needs the world to know that he, Donald, can certainly carry a 165-pound man however Turk can’t.”
Within the trade, the duo have been channeling their characters who, a decade and a half after the Scrubs finale, nonetheless come throughout as menchildren. Will they be adulting within the revival?
“In actual life we’re manchildren, let’s be trustworthy,” Faison quipped. “However I do should father or mother my youngsters.”
Added Braff, “We’re actual adults. Joking apart, one of many mandates from [Scrubs creator] Invoice [Lawrence] and myself was, we don’t need them to be youngsters. Clearly, foolish guys, however when issues get critical, they drop in they usually’re adults, whether or not it’s coping with their youngsters or coping with relationships exploding, or, most significantly, coping with the emergencies of the sufferers and educating these younger crop of interns, that’s all performed actual.”
Talking of actual, the revival shouldn’t be filmed in the identical actual Los Angeles hospital that housed the unique present. The brand new collection is shot in Vancouver the place the hospital was recreated on soundstages.
“I by no means thought it might be 100% correct or to scale, I believed it might be like 65% to scale,” Braff mentioned. “It’s over 30,000 sq. toes. It’s just about each place we shot within the previous deserted hospital recreated on stage, simply extraordinary work by the manufacturing designer and his group. It was the previous hospital on Riverside and Whitsett, for these in L.A. that learn this and know the place that’s, and actually, you’ll be within the set, and also you’ll go, oh, that’s Riverside that means. The drop really seems so actual that appears out north within the Valley, it’s very, very, very surreal.
Added Sarah Chalke (Elliot), “It’s such a visit. They usually really received to do the previous hospital, it’s equivalent, however make it higher, as a result of once we’re capturing the previous hospital, you’re in a good affected person’s room or one thing, and also you’re like, oh, want we might fly that wall. And now they will, they will open up all of the totally different sides. It was actually cool, it was actually surreal, really, to stroll onto the set for the primary time, as a result of clearly we spent all of our 20s there, after which to come back again that a few years later and have or not it’s precisely the identical, it was unimaginable.”
Stated Faison, “It took all of 9 weeks to not get misplaced on the set.”
Regardless of the prolonged hiatus, the Scrubs OGs didn’t have bother getting again into character and into the rhythm of the present.
“It was like using a motorcycle,” John C. McGinley (Dr. Cox) mentioned. “We had a read-through over at ABC-Disney earlier than we began for about 75 execs who’ve been there, carried out and seen it. It was as thrilling as an off- off-Broadway opening night time, the teleplay completely sparked in that room. Folks have been cheering, that was very seductive and contagious, and it sparked us from there. That was an awesome level of departure that your complete ensemble was energized by, understanding that we slayed that room of been-there, carried out and seen it [executives]. It felt like a giant fats stamp of validation, and we carried ahead with that.
Added Judy Reyes (Carla), “And the strain is on the writing. After we all received the scripts we have been like, ‘The script is nice, it’s good,’ after which all the things simply clicks. The second we begin to communicate, we snort at one another and issues that we thought we’d snort at, issues that we didn’t snort at once we learn it. Folks’s supply, their performances, our comedy assassins who are available only for one scene, or generally even a line, however they simply fully slay us each time. It was just like the previous days. It was like we by no means left, by way of working with all people else.”
Scrubs premieres Feb. 25 on ABC. Beneath is the trailer.
