Back in the 2000s, Chad Michael Murray was quite the hot commodity on projects like A Cinderella Story and One Tree Hill, and lately he’s been having a bit of a resurgence. He reprised his role as Jake in Freakier Friday on the 2025 movie calendar and stars on the romantic drama series Sullivan’s Crossing. His career also took an interesting turn last Christmas, as he played a stripper in The Merry Gentlemen, and apparently his daughter had a pretty hilarious reaction to that.
It’s only September, but we’re already getting a look at what 2025 Christmas movies are in store. It remains to be seen if the upcoming Netflix movies will carry the same heat as last year’s slate, which gave us Lacey Chabert’s Hot Frosty and Chad Michael Murray’s The Merry Gentlemen. The oddness of adding strippers to a holiday movie isn’t lost on Murray, and apparently it got him in trouble with his little one at home, as he told Newsweek:
