Fans think may have referenced his real-life jaw injury in his new movie, . In the Netflix comedy, which was released on Friday, June 28, Efron plays Chris Cole — a self-absorbed A-list actor who falls for his assistant Zara’s ( ) mom, Brooke, played by . As Chris and Brooke get to know one another early on in the film, Chris tells a story about his well-toned legs in hopes of impressing Brooke.
He then gets candid, revealing that he has had one major surgery in his life: on his chin, after a hard fall on set. “People thought that my quad [muscles] were completely fake. Like, that I got implants,” Chris tells Brooke in the film.
“ magazine had a four page spread on my quad job. They called me the ‘quad father.’ It’s not that funny, actually, I had to sue them.
But, they’re real...
. I did have surgery though. Just right there [under my chin].
I fell on set onto some broken glass.” Fans immediately drew a parallel from the scene to rumors swirled that Efron had undergone plastic surgery on his jaw after an April 2021 Facebook Watch video with . Efron eventually addressed the physical changes during an interview with the following year, revealing that he fell on a granite fountain while running in his home with socks on nearly 10 years prior, causing him to render unconscious.
When he awoke, he realized that this chin bone was “hanging off his face.” However, Efron undergone any plastic surgery to fix the injury, instead opting for intense physical therap.