Trailer for Netflix’sFamily Switch(2023)
Jennifer GarnerandEd Helmsare changing things up for the holidays.
PEOPLE is debuting the first trailer, which shows not only Jess and Bill switching forms with one another but their teenage daughter CC (Wednesday’s Emma Myers) and son Wyatt (Good Boys' Brady Noon) as well.
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Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms in Netflix’sFamily Switch(2023).Colleen Hayes/Netflix
Colleen Hayes/Netflix
Of the yuletide setting, McG says he thought the seasonal backdrop “added just a component of what everybody needs right now,” in the sense that “the idea of home is where the heart is” during the holidays.
“I think a lot of people associate with gathering, when your family is scattered around the country or the world, and it gives you an idea and an opportunity to come back together,” he says. “That isn’t always easy. I just like the idea of the family viewing experience and people talking about, ‘I want to see this’ or ‘I want to see that.’ HopefullyFamily Switchis an easy one for everyone to go, ‘That sounds like a good idea for the whole family to gather around to watch and enjoy.’ "
The director says the “North Stars of the feeling we’re trying to capture” with the movie include another holiday classic,Home Alone, and another body-swap classic,Big. (It also includes several nods to other feel-good body-swap films, like17 Againand Garner’s own13 Going on 30.)
“There’s a point of entry for [each] member of any given family,” McG says. “And even without that, I just think there’s always room for a great film in any genre.”
McG says Garner, who is also a producer on the film, is someone he had mutual friends with and has known somewhat “for 20-plus years,” butFamily Switchfinally gave them a chance to work together — and “a big giggle.”
Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner in Netflix’sFamily Switch(2023).Colleen Hayes/Netflix
He also praises not only Helms' comedic chops in projects likeThe OfficeandThe Hangover, but his musical prowess as well, a big part of his character inFamily Switch.
As for Myers, 21, and Noon, 17, McG says they are “a couple of firecrackers” who “really held up” opposite Garner and Helms.
“When I saw that little kid, Brady Noon, do’I Want to Know What Love Is' inGood Boys, I’m like, ‘I’ve got to have him. He must be in this movie,’ " the director says.
“And she wasn’t kidding,” McG says. “I’ve worked with a lot of actors, and [Emma is] just so talented. Jen and I would both marvel almost daily every time Emma would take the set and just perform. She was magnificent.”
Jennifer Garner, Emma Myers and McG on the set of Netflix’sFamily Switch(2023).Colleen Hayes/Netflix
Asked about landing Moreno, 91, for her mysterious role, McG says that, on set, the Hollywood legend was “very, very professional and just a spitfire of energy. And you feel like she’s just getting started.”
“There’ll never be another one like her. She’s amazing. We’re very, very lucky to have her,” he adds.
McG jokes that, at risk of sounding “syrupy,” in all seriousness, the biggest lesson he wants audiencesto take fromFamily Switchis to seek “first to understand, then be understood.”
Family Switchis streaming on Netflix Nov. 30.
source: people.com
