Scrubs boss reveals Zach Braff's key demand for revival series
The 50-year-old actor will be reprising his role alongside original co-stars Donald Faison (Chris Turk) and Sarah Chalke (Elliot Reid) in a new series of the iconic medical comedy drama, and creature Bill Lawrence has opened up on how things will change since the ninth season concluded in 2010.
He told The Hollywood Reporter: "We're rebooting Scrubs, and I don't get to work on it a ton because I'm at Warner Brothers and it's a Disney show, but a lot of the original writers and cast got to help out on the pilot.
"One of the first things Zach Braff said was, 'I cannot be a 50-year-old doing the same things. I have to be older, I have to be more mature'.
"I remember once during like the eighth season of the original show, a journalist asking Zach, how do you think your character has changed since the first year?
"He goes, 'I think I have a beard now.' Television can't do that anymore."
Bill will still return to Scrubs - which originally ran for 182 episodes between 2001 and 2010 - as executive producer.
He previously said in a statement: "Scrubs means so very much to me. So excited for the chance to get the band back together."
In announcing the series for the revival, the official logline stated: "JD + Turk scrub in together for the first time in a long time- medicine has changed, interns have changed, but their bromance has stood the test of time. "Characters new and old navigate the waters of Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way."
When Scrubs was rebooted for a ninth season with the focus on a new batch of interns, Donald and John C. McGinley were the only cast members to stay on as regulars.
Zach previously confessed to feeling "exhausted" at the end of his time on Scrubs, despite loving the experience of shooting the show.
He told the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast: "I miss laughing every day. Belly laughing every day was - that was the job.
"And when that goes away, by the time nine years were over, we were sort of all exhausted by it."
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