'A Merry Little Ex-Mas' doesn't shy away from family drama (or cheer)

Alicia Silverstone insisted the couple 'struggle and fight' in Netflix holiday film.

- BY ERIN CARLSON

KATE AND EVERETT (Alicia Silverstone and Oliver Hudson) are divorcing.

(MARNI GROSSMAN Netflix)

Oliver Hudson had the biggest crush on Cher Horowitz.

When he was 19 years old, Hudson swooned for her after watching “Clueless,” the 1995 teen comedy that transformed Alicia Silverstone into an overnight sensation.

The film was perfectly cast. Every actor oozed Main Character Energy, but the plot fully revolved around Silverstone’s Cher, the effervescent queen bee of Beverly Hills.

Young women wanted to dress like Cher. Hudson wanted to date her.

"Cher was my No. 1," the actor, now 49, said in a recent interview. "I tried to find Cher in Los Angeles. Didn't work out. But I just thought [Silverstone] was so adorable in that. And she's an amazing actor even beyond that." Hudson welcomed the opportunity to work with Silverstone in "A Merry Little Ex-Mas," Netflix's holiday movie now streaming.

Before reading the script, however, he worried that the project would involve partial nudity. Dustin Milligan went shirtless for "Hot Frosty." So did Chad Michael Murray in "The Merry Gentlemen." The latter was "dancing with his shirt off and he's all shredded," Hudson mused.