The Jonas Brothers are giving fans a glimpse into the writer’s room of their new holiday movie.
The band, who star on the cover of PEOPLE’s Best of 2025 issue, opened up about the experience of making A Very Jonas Christmas, which dropped Nov. 14 on Disney+.
While fictional, the trio plays surprisingly realistic versions of themselves in the film that Joe calls a “bucket list item” to make. Through collaborating with writers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who’ve written on shows like This Is Us and How I Met Your Father, the brothers found the balance between “authenticity” and “keeping some things personal.”
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“We kind of had individual sessions, but then just sort of [a] brain dump to give the audience a real look at our life,” Nick told PEOPLE during the October Best of 2025 cover shoot. “Obviously, while keeping some things personal. But we wanted this to feel real and to have authenticity from us in there.”
He says they then “all sat together and talked through some stuff.” It didn’t take long for the writers to get a feel for the brothers’ relationships. “I think they saw pretty quickly what some of the dynamics were. When we got the first draft of the script, we felt it was reflective of our real-life dynamics. Then we tightened the screws a little bit and just went even further with it.”
In the film, the brothers play up various exaggerated stereotypes. For Nick, that means being the “uptight, responsible one,” for Joe it’s the “lovable tramp” who makes new romantic “connections” regularly, and for Kevin, it’s “the one who still lives in New Jersey.”
While it appears as though very few punches were held, the brothers confirm that they “absolutely” vetoed a few things during production.
“Plenty of times,” Joe says.
“I think that was some of the fun dynamic actually on set as well,” Kevin adds.
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In addition to A Very Jonas Christmas, Nick, Joe and Kevin took time away from their massive JONAS20 tour this year to film the highly anticipated Camp Rock 3, 15 years after the second film premiered on Disney Channel.
“It was wild,” Kevin says of revisiting their characters. “We got to the set, and we see cast members from the original movies on the rounded Camp Rock Final Jam stage, looking out at a lake…Thank God those movies happened. Thank God Joe got cast and they decided to put me and Nick in it as well.”
And as far as their characters Shane (Joe), Nate (Nick) and Jason (Kevin) — members of the fictional band Connect 3 are brothers — the jury is still out.
“We didn’t know, and kind of still don’t, if Connect 3 are brothers or not,” Nick says with a laugh.
“There’s reference maybe to it but then there’s not in the first one,” Kevin adds before concluding, “the lore is real.”
