Aubrey Plaza made her first public appearance since her husband died earlier this year, appearing on Amy Poehler's podcast, Good Hang. It's widely known that the two are close friends since they worked together on the hit sitcom, Parks and Recreation, and Poehler gave her space to talk about her grief. During the episode, Poehler asked Plaza about how she's doing after having such a tough year. "You've had this terrible, terrible, tragic year. You lost your husband, you've been dealing with that, and you've been looking for all different ways in which to feel and find support," Poehler said. "On behalf of all the people who feel like they know you, and the people who do know you, how are you feeling today?"Plaza got quiet and took a second before answering, "Right in this very, very present moment, I feel happy to be with you," she began. "Overall, I'm here and I'm functioning. I feel really grateful to be moving through the world. I think I'm okay, but it's like a daily struggle, obviously." (@) She went on to explain her grief using the 2025 movie The Gorge starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy. "It's like an alien movie or something with Miles Teller. In the movie, there's like a cliff on one side and there's a cliff on the other side, then there's a gorge in between, and it's filled with all these monster people that are trying to get them," she said. "I swear, when I watched it, I was like that feels like what my grief is like or what grief could be like."Plaza explained that her grief feels like "a giant ocean of awfulness that's like right there and I can see it," she continued and said, "Sometimes I just want to dive into it, and just like be in it. Then sometimes I just look at it, and sometimes I try to get away from it. But, it's always there."She finished talking with a lighthearted joke, saying, "Anya Taylor-Joy to me is the example of like the more beautiful you are, the more spaced out your eyes are.