Zach Braff embarrassed having to record message for dentist
Actor/director Zach Braff regretted agreeing to record voicemails for those who contributed to his Wish I Was Here film crowdfunding campaign, after a dentist asked him to tape a mundane message for his waiting room patients.
The former Scrubs star turned to Kickstarter.com to help raise the money needed to fund the comedy drama and offered up personal 30-second messages for those who donated a certain amount to the project.
However, one odd request from a dentist had Braff cringing with
embarrassment.
He explains, "I had this one guy who's a dentist and he wanted me
to read... a greeting for the people in his waiting room. Like,
'Welcome to Dr. Shapiro's office. Please turn off your cell
phone.'
"I wrote the guy back and I was like, 'Look man, I know you
contributed and I really do wanna do anything, but I think this is
really gonna annoy your patients and I don't want your patients to
hate me and they'll never see anything I do'. He was like, 'I paid
good money, I want my dentist's lobby message', so I did it. 'Hi,
I'm Zach Braff, please turn off your cell phones'.
"But I was so worried, I don't wanna lose fans over this! These
poor Dr. Shapiro's patients are gonna be like, 'Oh, shut up'. It's
on, like, a 30-second loop in his office!"