But in the meantime, she was working on moving forward.
Making her theater debut, Plaza had reunited with Abbott in 2023 when they costarred in an off-Broadway revival of the John Patrick Shanley play Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, playing two broken souls who connect in a bar and spend the night together.
“We’re both unafraid to be ugly and weird and strange,” Abbott told the New York Times during rehearsals that September. And, after he read the script, he immediately thought of Plaza and her “nervous bright eyes” to play opposite him.
“We’re doing this play every night for an audience, but I think you also have to do it for each other,” he noted. “We want to entertain the audience, but I personally want to entertain Aubrey.”
And now they’re starring in a real-life romance, playing themselves.
As for the major milestone of parenthood, Plaza told Neon in 2014 about having children, “I really weirdly want them right now, but it’s not great timing. But I also feel, like, when is it ever good timing?”
To look back on her and Abbott’s road to becoming mom and dad, keep reading.
