Followers assume Zac Efron might have referenced his real-life jaw harm in his new film, A Household Affair.

Within the Netflix comedy, which was launched on Friday, June 28, Efron performs Chris Cole — a self-absorbed A-list actor who falls for his assistant Zara’s (Joey King) mother, Brooke, performed by Nicole Kidman. As Chris and Brooke get to know each other early on within the movie, Chris tells a narrative about his well-toned legs in hopes of impressing Brooke. He then will get candid, revealing that he has had one main surgical procedure in his life: on his chin, after a tough fall on set.

“Individuals thought that my quad [muscles] had been fully faux. Like, that I received implants,” Chris tells Brooke within the movie. “Individuals journal had a 4 web page unfold on my quad job. They referred to as me the ‘quad father.’ It’s not that humorous, truly, I needed to sue them. However, they’re actual.… I did have surgical procedure although. Good there [under my chin]. I fell on set onto some damaged glass.”

Followers instantly drew a parallel from the scene to rumors swirled that Efron had undergone cosmetic surgery on his jaw after an April 2021 Fb Watch video with Invoice Nye. Efron finally addressed the bodily modifications throughout an interview with Males’s Well being the next 12 months, revealing that he fell on a granite fountain whereas working in his dwelling with socks on practically 10 years prior, inflicting him to render unconscious. When he awoke, he realized that this chin bone was “hanging off his face.”

Nonetheless, Efron denied that he had undergone any cosmetic surgery to repair the harm, as an alternative choosing intense bodily remedy. When he was compelled to pause his restoration to movie his Netflix sequence Right down to Earth With Zac Efron in Australia, sure muscle groups in his face grew to become enlarged as they compensated for the opposite injured muscle groups.

“The masseters simply grew,” he advised Males’s Well being in September 2022. “They only received actually, actually massive.” (Masseter muscle groups, which exist on either side of the decrease face and run from the temporal bone to the decrease jaw, help with chewing and consuming, in line with an article revealed by the Nationwide Institute of Well being.)

Efron confessed that he wasn’t even conscious of the social media rumors surrounding his jaw till his mom questioned him about it, however famous that he was unbothered by the net chatter.

“If I valued what different folks considered me to the extent that they could assume I do. I undoubtedly wouldn’t have the ability to do that work,” he advised the outlet.

Later that very same month, Efron as soon as once more opened up in regards to the harm throughout an interview with Leisure Tonight, the place he revealed that the accident was practically deadly.

“It was humorous,” he mentioned. “It sucks. I nearly died, however we’re good.”

A Household Affair was filmed from August to October 2022s. It was additionally across the time Efron started prepping The Iron Claw, the place he underwent a serious bodily transformation to play wrestler Kevin Von Erich. Efron reportedly gained 15 kilos of muscle for the function.

“In one of the best ways potential, I didn’t look something like me,” Efron advised The Hollywood Reporter in December 2023. “It was jarring at first, however we type of put it collectively piece by piece.”

Whether or not Efron’s chin reference in A Household Affair was intentional is unclear, however the Excessive College Musical star did seemingly poke enjoyable at himself in different methods within the movie — together with how he as soon as requested an ice bathtub from an assistant, one thing his character additionally does to Zara. Throughout an interview with Parade earlier this month, Efron referred to as it the “craziest” factor he’s requested of an assistant. “It was nice,” he mentioned. “I nonetheless have it.”

When requested if there have been another parts about Chris that he associated to, Efron mentioned it was “type of a combination.”

“I believe there are emotions that he’s experiencing that I’ve undoubtedly felt myself at instances, however I simply type of amplified a number of the ways in which I suppose he’s extra afraid of issues,” he defined. “Sadly, whenever you’re going by means of a few of these feelings, you possibly can are inclined to take it out on the folks closest to you, which he does to Zara. She’s in all probability his buddy and there’s no one he can actually be himself in entrance of, and I believe that shines a lightweight on how great their relationship is. It’s tumultuous at instances, however Zara is all the time there for Chris and I believe by the top of the film, you see that Chris actually has Zara’s again and it’s actually particular.”