Joey King Reveals Nicole Kidman’s ‘Epic, Awful Butt Workout’

The actress, who’s at the moment selling their new Netflix movie “A Household Affair,” not too long ago appeared on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon” the place she chatted with the host about her reference to Kidman.

In truth, Nicole Kidman shared her butt exercise with Joey King, who claims it’s “epic” and “terrible” on the similar time.

The 24-year-old stepped up her health recreation because of Kidman, who apparently has an “intense” exercise to construct the glute muscle mass.

“She taught me probably the most epic, terrible butt exercise I’ve ever discovered in my life. It was so intense,” King told Jimmy Fallon. “I used to be like, ‘I am a teenager. I can grasp. I am younger, and I am agile’ — I believed I may grasp, however I could not grasp.”

The butt exercise included “all these donkey kicks and the rainbows and the hearth hydrants,” however the hardest half is “it’s a must to maintain your leg within the air for, like, 12 years. It is so laborious,” King added.

Whereas it’s a robust train routine, King says she nonetheless does it to today. “I do it nonetheless … I ship [Kidman] images after I do it I’m like, ‘Name the ambulance, love you!’ ” she mentioned with a chuckle.

“A Household Affair” is a 2024 romantic comedy that follows Zara, a 24-year-old private assistant to Chris Cole who cannot stand him, Chris Cole, a self-absorbed Hollywood star who would not take Zara significantly, and Brooke Harwood, a profitable author who falls for Chris. The movie stars Joey King as Zara, Nicole Kidman as Brooke, and Zac Efron as Cole.

When speaking in regards to the movie, King defined Zara and Chris’s “attention-grabbing relationship after we first meet them.”

“It is tense, but in addition full of affection. It is like a household sort of relationship. They hate one another, however they’d do something for one another,” she advised MovieFone of her and Efron’s characters. “When Brooke comes into the combination and begins courting Chris, it is like every part that was simply effervescent beneath the floor for Zara and Chris, and the strain that they had, simply explodes to the floor. Zara simply can’t deal with how this man is ruining her life, in additional methods than one. She’s employed by him, and now he is courting her mother!”

When speaking in regards to the film, Joey King mirrored on what it was like working with the one and solely Nicole Kidman.

“Working with Nicole is simply, I imply she’s so improbable,” King advised MovieFone. “It is laborious to encapsulate what an angel she is when it comes to simply how I love her. Additionally, simply changing into pleasant together with her. She’s simply really so particular.”

“I’m so fortunate to work together with her and Zac, they’re each improbable,” she added of her different costar, Zac Efron.

When talking with ScreenRant, Joey King opened up about connecting to her character, Zara, explaining that she “sees a lot of [herself] in Zara.”

“I’m a hustler myself. I have been working for such a very long time and I do know what it feels prefer to have this ambition and to have these goals and to have individuals not hearken to you,” King added.

“And so I can actually relate to Zara in the best way the place she’s simply attempting to make her voice heard, but in addition she’s nonetheless a bit younger and naive. She would not know the very best methods to go about making her voice heard.”

The “Excessive Faculty Musical” actor and the “Conjuring” actress each opened up about their character’s relationship within the Netflix movie and the way “humorous” but “trusting” it’s.

“I feel after we first meet Zara and Chris, they have been working collectively for some time now they usually have this humorous relationship the place they only get on one another’s nerves a lot, but in addition they do something for one another,” King mentioned of her and Efron’s characters. “Properly, Zara would do something for Chris.”

“It is a deeply trusting sort of relationship,” Efron added.

“A Household Affair” is at the moment streaming on Netflix.