When it comes to the best rom-coms I’ve seen, oftentimes it all comes down to the chemistry between its leading actors. Netflix’s latest entry into the genre enlists perhaps an unlikely pair in A Family Affair . In the project on the 2024 movie schedule , Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron ’s characters sneak around behind the back of Joey King ’s character, and it turns out these two are rather endearing together! And the movie’s director could see that from day one! A Family Affair ’s director Richard LaGravenese has a knack for movies with great pairings, between 2007’s P.
S. I Love You to 2014’s The Last Five Years . Here’s what he shared with CinemaBlend when I asked him why Kidman and Efron were the perfect pair for the new Netflix release : To be honest, I came into it and the cast was already set, so I knew their chemistry as soon as our first day rehearsals on set and they saw each other and embraced and talked about old times and their friendship was apparent right from the start and their ability to connect and work off of each other was so easy and so graceful.
You knew right from the start. Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman actually worked together over a decade prior on 2012’s The Paperboy , but it was under much different circumstances than a romantic comedy. The Lee Daniels movie was a crime drama set in the '60s that definitely doesn’t have a happy ending for the pair.
As LaGravenese observed, Efron and Kidman’s chemistry was apparent to him from th.
