Days of our Lives alums Nadia Bjorlin and Kyler Pettis team up for new film

For a long stretch on Days of our Lives, Chloe Lane existed inside repetition, carrying the weight of old choices long after they stopped changing anything. When she left Salem in 2023 for New York, leaving the long mess with Xander (Paul Telfer) and Sarah (Linsey Godfrey) behind, it felt less like a farewell and more like someone finally changing the channel.

That choice echoes currently, because Nadia Bjorlin is part of an indie film that wasn’t interested in damage control or endurance, but in what happens when a woman lets herself want something and follows it without checking in first.

A post–Days of our Lives change that feels natural

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the indie feature Veronica & Julian pairs Bjorlin with Kyler Pettis (ex-Theo Carver) in a romantic drama set in present-day New York, written, directed, and produced by Otoja Abit, with filming recently completed.

She plays a successful marketing executive who falls for a younger, still-finding-his-feet architect, and the age gap isn’t treated as a stunt so much as a way in, letting the relationship unfold naturally. It was positioned as a character piece first, with romance doing the heavy lifting instead of spectacle.

What stands out is how clean the pivot feels. After more than a thousand episodes as Chloe, Bjorlin stepped into a role that wasn’t asking her to play history, loyalty, or fallout, but momentum, curiosity, and choice. There’s no winking at her soap past here, just an actor letting the camera sit with her in a different milieu.

The setting does some quiet work too. New York isn’t doing any symbolic work here; it’s just where the characters are, loud and full and indifferent in a way that gives them room to change without anyone stopping to comment on it. That choice fits a film that’s less interested in declarations than in the small, private shifts that happen when no one’s watching. (Revisit Chloe and Xander’s brief time together.)

Desire without a safety net

Veronica & Julian lets the relationship play out without turning it into a problem that needs fixing or explaining. Bjorlin’s character isn’t searching because she’s broken or adrift; she’s moving because she finally has room to wonder what else might fit, and that choice gives the romance a calm, grown-up weight instead of manufactured urgency.

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That same restraint carries through the people around her, with Blake Jenner, Erin Cummings, Chrystee Pharris, and Robert Lee Leng moving in and out of the story without trying to pull it off course. The film appears content to let scenes linger and tensions exist side by side, trusting that attraction, imbalance, and curiosity don’t need to be explained ad nauseam to feel real. (Get the details on one of Bjorlin’s previous films.)

Days of our Lives is available on the Peacock streaming app.

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