Is ‘Nutcrackers’ Based on a True Story? Meet the Janson Brothers, the Real Kids From Ben Stiller’s Hulu Movie
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Is ‘Nutcrackers’ Based on a True Story? Meet the Janson Brothers, the Real Kids From Ben Stiller’s Hulu Movie

ByNews Polite

The kids in Nutcrackers—a new Ben Stiller Christmas movie that began streaming on Hulu today—display an amazing naturalism rarely seen in child actors. That’s because, in fact, the Nutcrackers kids are not actors. They are the real-life brothers—Atlas, Arlo, Ulysses, and Homer Janson, ages 8 through 13—who inspired director David…