Again within the 2000s, Chad Michael Murray was fairly the recent commodity on tasks like A Cinderella Story and One Tree Hill, and recently he’s been having a little bit of a resurgence. He reprised his position as Jake in Freakier Friday on the 2025 film calendar and stars on the romantic drama sequence Sullivan’s Crossing. His profession additionally took an fascinating flip final Christmas, as he performed a stripper in The Merry Gents, and apparently his daughter had a fairly hilarious response to that.
It’s solely September, however we’re already getting a have a look at what 2025 Christmas films are in retailer. It stays to be seen if the upcoming Netflix films will carry the identical warmth as final yr’s slate, which gave us Lacey Chabert’s Scorching Frosty and Chad Michael Murray’s The Merry Gents. The oddness of including strippers to a vacation film isn’t misplaced on Murray, and apparently it received him in hassle together with his baby at house, as he advised Newsweek:
I did a film final yr referred to as The Merry Gents. I used to be a stripper. As a result of while you consider Christmas, that is the very first thing you consider. And I keep in mind I used to be watching it with my spouse earlier than it got here out, and my daughter walked in. She was 7 on the time. She simply got here in and simply began smacking me. ‘What did you do? Put your shirt on!’ Lovable. Lovable, nevertheless it makes it a lot sweeter. It makes it so a lot better.
It’s so humorous to me that Chad Michael Murray’s 7-year-old referred to as him out for being shirtless in a film. The “What did you do?” slays me.
I can completely see why the One Tree Hill alum’s Christmas stripper film would trigger such a response for his daughter, however for these of us who grew up watching Lucas Scott taking part in basketball or Tristan capturing Rory’s coronary heart on Gilmore Women, this film — and the requisite Netflix hunky vacation calendar — was actually thrilling.
The Merry Gents, which is offered to stream with a Netflix subscription, facilities round Broadway dancer Ashley Davis (Britt Robertson), who returns house for Christmas to study that her dad and mom’ venue is in peril of closing as a result of not paying their lease. After seeing handyman Luke shirtless, she varieties the concept to do an all-male revue to boost the cash.
I’ve to confess, the attractive vacation rom-com is a motion I can get behind, so we’ll simply have to attend to see what authentic Netflix Christmas films await us this yr. If Chad Michael Murray returns to the lineup, nonetheless, he would possibly wish to take into account locking the door earlier than hitting Play.
