“Jeff Baena was a sweet, Jewish boy from Miami,” the actor—who appeared in Baena’s films Life After Beth, The Little Hours and Joshy—wrote on Instagram Jan. 5. “He was a collaborator, a mentor, the scrappiest basketball player with the ugliest jump shot you ever saw.”
“He was a talented director with impeccable taste and vision,” Pally continued. “He was a connector of people, a fosterer of possibility, the guy who knows where the best restaurant was no matter where you were. An overly gracious host with an almost disturbing open door policy, a film encyclopedia, and most important to me a friend.”
