Zach Braff Quit His Restaurant Job After Landing “Scrubs ”Pilot: 'I’m Rich!'

Zach Braff was moving astatine a edifice erstwhile he booked Scrubs.

“I sewage Scrubs aft six auditions,” nan character said during a sheet speech pinch nan show’s creator Bill Lawrence astatine nan ATX TV Festival connected Sunday, Jun. 1. “I was driving location and I put nan Motorola StarTAC connected nan rider seat, my telephone rang and it was Bill and he said ‘you sewage it’ and I was truthful thrilled and my life was going to change.”

“Even if it was conscionable nan pilot, my life was changed everlastingly because I was surviving truthful frugally,” Braff, 50, continued. 

Braff recalls really he called his mom, dada and nan head of nan edifice wherever he was moving astatine nan clip and told them "I sewage it!" 

“The head said 'I americium truthful happy for you, but you person to activity tonight.' And I sewage hammered, and I was nan worst waiter ever. I discontinue nan job, and my Mom said, ‘Why did you quit? What if it's conscionable nan pilot?' " he recalled. "I had been surviving truthful frugally and said, 'Do you cognize really agelong I could unrecorded disconnected of nan money of this pilot?' Like I had it dialed to unrecorded disconnected for illustration $12,000 a year, truthful from nan aviator I was like, 'I'm rich!' "

From 2001 to 2010, Braff took connected nan domiciled of J.D., nan cardinal expert connected nan beloved aesculapian drama alongside his costars Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes and Christa Miller. For nan series' ninth and last season, Braff returned for six episodes arsenic nan play introduced a caller group of characters. During nan show, nan character received 3 Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nod.

Braff precocious announced he would beryllium putting connected his scrubs again arsenic Dr. Dorian successful a much-talked-about reboot. 

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Lawrence besides antecedently told Deadline what he envisioned for nan upcoming Scrubs reboot. The showrunner revealed that he expected nan caller bid to characteristic some nan original formed and caller actors.

"We've been talking astir a lot, and I deliberation nan only existent logic to do it is simply a combo," he explained. "A: group wanting to spot what nan world of medicine was for illustration for nan group they love, which is portion of immoderate successful reboot. But B: I deliberation that show ever worked because you get to spot young group dropped into nan world of medicine, knowing young group that spell location are ace idealistic and are doing it because it’s a calling."

He added, "There's nary cliché 'rich doctors playing golf' — that's not what it is anymore. So I deliberation that, nary matter what it is, it would beryllium a elephantine correction not to do arsenic a combo of those 2 things."