Nutcrackers is based on a true story in the sense that the kids in Nutcrackers are not actors, and were more or less being themselves on screen. They are the kids of a friend of David Gordon Green’s, and it was their real-life dynamic that inspired Green to make the movie in the first place.

ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Nutcrackers stars Ben Stiller and real-life brothers Homer and Arlo Janson. The trio discussed filming at the Janson family’s actual farmhouse, what drew them to the project,