In the doctor's office when Zara (Joey King) asks her mother Brooke (Nicole Kidman), "What is he, like 20 years younger than you?" referring to Chris (Zac Efron), her mom responds, "Sixteen." Kidman is 20 years older than Efron.
Brooke tells Chris she is Australian and Chris brags that he knows Margot Robbie. In reality Zac Efron has never worked with her, but Nicole Kidman starred alongside her in O Escândalo (2019).
Zara (Joey King) asks her mother Brooke (Nicole Kidman), "What, is he [Chris] like 20 years younger than you?" to which her mother replies "16." In real life, Joey King is 16 years younger than her husband.
In September 2024, The New York Times reported that Kathy Bates will retire from acting after finishing Matlock (2024), with the context being that a few weeks prior to receiving the pilot episode's script in January 2023, an unspecified movie shoot "had soured and she found herself alone, on her sofa in Los Angeles, sobbing." A Family Affair's filming took place from August to October 2022, fitting the described timeline.