Joey King & Liza Koshy Talk About 'A Family Affair'
An interview between Joey King and Liza Koshy as they talk working together, working with Zac Efron and so much more in Netflix's "A FAmily Affair."
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00:00It's wonderful to see you both. Congratulations on the film.
00:03My hair is like yours, but it's smashed back today, but I love it.
00:06I can't figure out how to do that.
00:07You figured it out. You're succeeding very hard right now.
00:10Yes, I love your hair. So cute.
00:12I love your bangs.
00:13Thank you. I need to leave.
00:15This is too much. Yeah, go away.
00:17Thank you. You both look fabulous.
00:19So just to jump right in.
00:22I wanted to ask you, Joey, your character Zara
00:24claims that she kind of knows everything about Chris.
00:27She thinks she's, you know, really gotten to know him
00:29and there's nothing else to discover.
00:30So while you were working with Zac Efron,
00:33was there anything that surprised you?
00:35Tons. I mean, you know, when you work with someone like Zac,
00:38I've been a fan of Zac since I was a young girl
00:42and I was obsessed with him, like truly obsessed.
00:46And when you have this conceptual idea of someone for so long,
00:49meeting them seems like this impossible thing that could never happen.
00:52And so getting to meet Zac and get to know him
00:57was so surprising in itself because he was just so wonderful
01:01and so funny and so, you know,
01:04he's just like a funny little weirdo dorky guy at heart.
01:08And I love that about him.
01:10I just think he's got he's really caring.
01:13He's really sweet.
01:13There's been so many times where he like randomly like do something for me
01:18and think of me in a way that I would have never expected.
01:20I was like that was so thoughtful and he was like, yeah, whatever.
01:23And I just think he's like a he's just like a funny guy.
01:25He's just so sweet.
01:26He really is amazing.
01:28I called him the improv king today and I don't think he liked that.
01:31No, no, no.
01:31I think he probably loved it.
01:32He loved it.
01:34He's humble.
01:35He's humble.
01:35He was like, no, that's not me.
01:37Yeah, he doesn't know how to take a compliment,
01:40but he is the improv king.
01:41He is so funny in this movie.
01:43He's just hilarious in general.
01:46I was like, who is this man?
01:47Totally not scripted.
01:48Amazing.
01:48Which part?
01:49Just when he's singing Cher.
01:50Shut up.
01:51Yeah, there's a lot of moments that are they went off script.
01:54The script is delicious.
01:54Thank you, Carrie Solomon.
01:55But these two the these four Kathy Bates,
01:58everybody so much was not in this script that they made.
02:01So yummy and nutritional.
02:03Yeah, I love that.
02:03Like the carrots that you're just munching on in the back.
02:05Oh my God.
02:06You saw my carrot.
02:07Yes, I whittled it down to a baby carrot throughout the course of the whole day.
02:11But I had like six large carrots that day.
02:13It's a like Easter egg.
02:14Yeah, you did because we're running into the event center and I grab a carrot and Richard LaGravenese,
02:19our director was so into it.
02:21Is it in the movie?
02:22Not really.
02:22He was here.
02:23It's in there.
02:25I saw it.
02:25It's in there, you saw it.
02:26Yeah, I noticed.
02:27I mean, I didn't know if it was like for the reindeer that were there.
02:29I was like, where is she getting this carrot from?
02:31It was from the kitchen.
02:32They're prepping for the event and I said, check the carrot.
02:34I loved it.
02:35I loved it.
02:35And I can tell you both had a lot of fun.
02:37I wanted to ask just you know, what was it like bonding on set?
02:39But I mean clearly it was just a blast.
02:41Well, that was easy.
02:42We had like a previous panel that we did together way back when Teen Vogue.
02:482016 or something?
02:49No, I think it was 2018.
02:51Oh really?
02:52Okay.
02:53And then our mutual friend Sabrina brought us together and then I said this before,
02:57but my dog peed on her carpet and that's a bonding moment.
03:00And then to be on set with her.
03:01I know, it was lovely.
03:01I was honored.
03:02She was embarrassed and I was like, for what?
03:05I have dogs.
03:06I have dogs and they defecate wherever the hell they want.
03:11They chose that spot and that meant something.
03:13Phoebe chose that spot and I was like, that's nice.
03:15You'll forever remember her there.
03:16That's nice.
03:17And then you did home reno and removed it entirely, right?
03:19Yes, I did.
03:19Okay, nice.
03:21But like first day on set, we had to take photos together.
03:24Do you remember that?
03:24Yeah, we had to take like bestie photos.
03:26You took your shirt and put it over me.
03:28Yeah, we like we're sharing a shirt, which that's a forgotten.
03:31Sharing like a womb.
03:31It's really funny.
03:32And I was like, this is going to be a breeze.
03:34I know.
03:34It's always funny to me when you are playing best friends with someone and the first day,
03:39which has happened to me before, where they like make you take a best friends photo shoot.
03:43And I understand why they do it because they need photos in the movie.
03:46Yeah.
03:47And like you but like it is I mean, we were so great already, which was nice.
03:52But like that's a crazy thing to do with people that don't know each other.
03:56We were lucky to know each other.
03:57Thank God.
03:58Yeah.
03:58And Joel Courtney, our mutual friend too.
04:00And Joel's our mutual friend.
04:02We got a lot of mutuals.
04:04It sounds like it's a fun, a fun bunch of people.
04:07Well, thank you so much.
04:08That's all the time I have.
04:09Thank you so much to talk to you.