“The Merry Gentlemen” opens with a not-so-merry woman, Ashley ( Britt Robertson ), an aging Jingle Belle dancer. The pseudo-Rockette is given the boot by her boss, and right before the big holiday season. That’s how Ashley ends up back in her hometown, where she’s promptly deemed “city girl” for ditching the Big Apple.

The actor and former teen heartthrob is starring in his latest holiday film for Netflix, which required him to dance for hours while baring his abs for all.

A festive-themed riff on The Full Monty, the film stars Britt Robertson as a dancer who is let go from her long-standing gig as a member of a successful Broadway troupe, but finds new purpose when she steps in to save her parents's struggling bar – by staging an all-male, Christmas-themed revue.