Need a simple solution to get Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman to learn your script? Give it an eye catching title. Starring as lovers within the lately launched Netflix rom-com “A Household Affair” from director Richard LaGravenese, the co-stars shared in a latest interview with Those who the movie initially had a not-so-family-friendly title that drew them to the mission instantly.
“It was known as ‘Motherf—–,’” Efron mentioned, whereas Kidman added, “Beeped out. In some way that didn’t make it onto the Netflix title.”
Although this title didn’t attain the display screen finally, it’s what made each actors choose up the screenplay within the first place. And as soon as every came upon the opposite was inquisitive about taking the fabric on, they each felt it was a no brainer. Efron mentioned, “I jumped. I believe we each type of did. We jumped at it. It was like, that is excellent. What higher solution to reconnect? And we get to have enjoyable.”
The movie follows a Hollywood mega-star who falls for his assistant’s mom (performed by Joey King), a lady who’s 20 years his senior. Whereas many films have broached age-gap romances, notably lately with “The Thought of You” and “Could December,” Kidman appreciated the positivity of this narrative and the house it stuffed inside the style when it comes to a youthful man falling for an older girl.
“There’s a dearth,” she mentioned. “We’ve had it from manner again with older males and youthful ladies, that’s simply at all times been the norm — it’s OK, it’s utterly acceptable. The issue is we’ve not had the equal from all totally different viewpoints, with ladies telling the tales. And we want recreation males. [Zac] got here in and makes the movie as a result of he was like, ‘I’m right here to have enjoyable, to play, and to very a lot be part of this and be there for you’ — for each Joey and I.”
Efron claims this was simple as his pure attraction to Kidman, constructed once they first shared the display screen in “The Paperboy,” bled into his character.
“I’m nonetheless so enamored with Nicole,” Efron mentioned. “There’s part of me that pinches myself once I understand who I’m working with lots. I believe that was extra pronounced throughout ‘The Paperboy’ as a result of I used to be lots youthful. I used to be very nervous again then.”