Which ocd does zach braff have

This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using this website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Everyone knows Howard Hughes was obsessive-compulsive among other things and I bet lots of us who grew up on Double Dare shudder to think of the OCD Marc Summers dealing with all of the goo and muck as the host of the messy game show. Although these celebrities have shared their battles rather publicly, there are a few out there who suffer from OCD quietly.

Like who? Read on to find out… Cameron Diaz Despite her memorable "hair gel" scene in There's Something About Mary, Cameron Diaz can't stand germs and other people's "fluids", as she puts it. She says she rubs doorknobs so hard to get them clean before opening them that the paint wears off.

She washes her hands and floors "many times" every day and uses her elbows to open doors so she won't get germs on her hands. Warren identified Billy Bob as a fellow obsessive-compulsive and the two of them bonded over their phobias. Among Billy Bob's is a phobia of antique furniture, which he wrote into a character in Sling Blade.

He also fears some kinds of silverware, which shows up in his Monster's Ball character. David Beckham Sure, he's good looking, talented, funny, has great hair and lots of money, but David Beckham has his struggles, too. He hates odd numbers and is obsessed with symmetry - if there's three of something, he has to hide the third somewhere out of sight.

If something's slightly askew, he can't rest until the row has been straightened. Before he can settle into a hotel room, he says he puts all of the books and pamphlets together in a drawer. You have to wonder, though, if his odd number phobia means he and Posh will be adding to their brood — currently three boys — soon. Leonardo DiCaprio You know the old saying, "Step on a crack and you'll break your mother's back"?

Leonardo DiCaprio used to take that little rhyme very seriously. As a kid, he could not step on cracks or other designated spots. He overcame this particular disorder until he played Howard Hughes in The Aviator. He revisited his old ways to try to get into Hughes' famously phobic character and ended up falling back into the habit — he was frequently late for filming because he had a specific way he had to walk to get to the set and would have to retrace his steps if anything went awry.

Alec Baldwin Alec Baldwin says he has developed quite the fixation on cleanliness over the years. He says he can come home and immediately tell if a book is out of place and insists on doing household chores before his housekeeper does, even to the point that he will miss a plane if it means getting his dishes done. Braff is emphatically not Largeman, but he drew deeply from his own experience to write, direct and act in Garden State.

For example, Largeman is an actor, and so is Braff. Remember television comedy Scrubs? Braff was John "JD" Dorian, the endearingly rumpled doctor who tripped the maternal instincts of female viewers everywhere. Braff has been medicated at times for anxiety, but he has never been prescribed drugs for psychotic illnesses, like Largeman. He has also variously been elated and troubled, like Largeman. At school, he became the popular kid by reaching for a joke, "otherwise I wouldn't have had any friends".

Braff studied film at Northwestern University in Chicago before starting an acting career. Like Largeman in Garden State , Braff says the exchange in the restaurant happened to him, verbatim. Garden State is a love story, but it's also about the lag between leaving one's family and starting one's own family, those extra years when adolescence stretches and governments despair about the decreasing birthrate.

I imagine that being OCD would probably be an advantage for someone exercising that much control over a project, but this is a level of psychoanalyzing that I'm only tempted to do with shoots like this, where I never really clicked with my subject. Labels: actors , celebrity , comedians , movies , portraits , Toronto International Film Festival.

No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. I find it so silly. He wrote and starred in a play, All New People — about a suicide case.

For the most part, however, he was trying to follow up Garden State. He tried for years to get a remake of the Danish marital drama Open Hearts off the ground. Sean Penn was attached, but then the money fell through — a typical experience. No-one had wanted to make Garden State, and then it was a huge success, so I thought I had earned some points. Braff was taken aback, not least because actress Kristen Bell used the same methods to raise money for the film version of her show Veronica Mars.