The Cheaper By the Dozen Remake Stars: Meet the Cast

May 2024 · 3 minute read

Introducing, the Baker kinfolk! Cheaper By the Dozen is back and better than ever with a new cast. The Disney+ remake — which premiered on Friday, March 18 — stars Gabrielle Union (Zoey Baker) and Zach Braff (Paul Baker) as the matriarch and patriarch of a large mixed relatives.

Per the streaming carrier’s legit synopsis, the film is a “fresh take” on the 2003 movie of the same name. The logline reads, “It is the story of the raucous exploits of a combined kinfolk of 12, the Bakers, as they navigate a hectic home existence while concurrently managing their kinfolk trade.”

It was once first introduced in December 2020 that Union — who also serves as an govt producer on the venture — would be at the forefront of the Disney+ remake with Braff’s casting news coming just a little over a month later in January 2021.

“When I first learn the script … I wanted to be part of something that our whole family could watch together and, you’ve noticed some of my work, I don’t do a large number of family-friendly form of stuff,” the Bring It On alum told Entertainment Tonight ahead of the premiere. “So, I felt now not simplest used to be it the best time for my very own family members however I feel it’s the absolute best time for all the families who need to see different sorts of people and other sorts of households reflected and celebrated on screen.”

When it came time to cast the children, Union and Braff’s onscreen brood of 10 children — rounding out the relations’s dozen — used to be announced in February 2021.

Caylee Blosenski (Harley Baker), for one, informed J-14 that operating along her costars was an “amazing” enjoy, noting that Union gave her “such a lot advice” whilst Braff used to be “so humorous.”

The up-and-coming star added, “He came to set with other jokes each day and really brightened up the room. … I don’t understand how they did it.”

Although she played a mom of 10 in the film, Union additionally instructed ET that she couldn’t do it in actual lifestyles.

“[The youngsters could be like], ‘Mom went to the retailer, and in six years she hasn’t returned!'” she joked, calling the Baker family members a “entire different animal.”

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Union endured, “I think we are at max capacity at the Wade-Union household and that’s why Zoey Baker is a fictitious character!” regarding herself and husband Dwyane Wade.

Keep scrolling to meet the Cheaper By the Dozen cast.

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