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Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan Talk THAT AWKWARD MOMENT In New Featurette

By Michelle McCue | January 9, 2014

Did you catch the People’s Choice Awards last night on CBS? If you watched, you probably saw Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan presenting the award for Favorite Comedic Movie.

The three star in the upcoming R-rated comedy, THAT AWKWARD MOMENT, about three best friends who find themselves where we’ve all been– at that confusing “moment” in every dating relationship when you have to decide “So… where is this going?”

Written and directed by Tom Gormican, Efron, Jordan and Teller talk about the “so moment” in this new featurette.

Efron and Miles Teller play best friends Jason and Daniel, perennially unattached players for whom the nightclubs and cafes of lower Manhattan are a happy hunting ground, full of beautiful and ambitious young women. When their longtime friend Mikey, played by Michael B. Jordan, splits with his wife, Jason and Daniel welcome him back to the pack enthusiastically.

Mikey’s reluctance to dive back into the dating pool moves Jason to propose a pact between the three friends. The inspiration for their agreement came from a truly classic comedy.

“I remembered a Shakespeare play called Love’s Labour’s Lost,” Gormican says. “In the story, a group of guys decide to swear off women, but then they all meet girls and they start lying to each other about it. I thought it was an interesting idea that could be updated really effectively. When Mikey gets dumped, instead of saying, that’s terrible, his friends say great, you’ve come back to us. Come into our world. This is the place to be. And they make this pact not to get emotionally involved with any of the women they hook up with.”

Zac Efron and director, Tom Gormican, on the set of THAT AWKWARD MOMENT