 in real life. And in real life, okay, that's 21 years between them. In the movie, they're only supposed to be 16 years apart. And Joey King plays Zara, the beleaguered assistant of Efron's Chris Cole, an uber egotistical movie star. Nicole Kidman plays Zara's mom, a Pulitzer Prize winning author. And sparks fly when the mom and the movie star meet. The daughter Zara is convincingly horrified.