A new rom-com was recently released as part of Netflix’s 2024 schedule , with A Family Affair featuring not one but two Academy Award winners in Nicole Kidman and Kathy Bates . Zac Efron also stars, showing off his comedy chops again after Ricky Stanicky . However, it was not any of those veteran actors, but rather 24-year-old Joey King who did the most with her physical comedy.
In fact, as King performed a particularly hilarious stunt, Kidman and Efron’s reactions were caught on camera, and they were perfect. The premise of A Family Affair is that Brooke Harwood (Nicole Kidman) becomes involved with movie star Chris Cole (Zac Efron), whose assistant is her daughter Zara ( Joey King ). Very minor spoiler here , but near the beginning of the movie, Zara walks in on her mom and her boss in the middle of a tequila-fueled intimate moment, and she has a pretty extreme reaction.
Check out the scene below, which Efron shared to Instagram , as well as his and Kidman’s A+ reactions: A post shared by Zac Efron (@zacefron) A photo posted by on Joey King, ladies and gentlemen! The actress, who portrayed Gypsy-Rose Blanchard in 2019’s The Act and is also known for The Kissing Booth movies (which, like A Family Affair , can be streamed with a Netflix subscription ) really gave it her all for this all-important moment. That scream is everything, and even without the thud that would have accompanied her actually slamming into the door frame, I fully bought it as she clumsily fell to .