Word: efron
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What he'd rather be doing, and what he was in fact doing a few hours before we met for an iced chai in the Valley, is meeting with folks like Francis Ford Coppola about a role. Coppola asked Efron, who is a musical savant, to try to stump him with obscure show songs. Coppola missed only one, from Avenue Q, but he belted the rest right at Efron. "Believe it or not, he's got a pretty rich baritone. It's kind of great. I must be one of the few people he sang...
...Efron isn't surprised that wholesomeness is what kids want since, growing up in a small town near the small town of San Luis Obispo, Calif., he didn't think teen movies were very realistic. "Not everyone is an alcoholic in high school," says Efron. "You go to high school and some kids haven't hit puberty yet." In fact, though he's 19 years old, Efron's voice still has a squeak to it, which fits in with his appeal as the anti-rehab kid. Though paparazzi follow him, especially after his supporting role in last month's Hairspray...
People are nevertheless very, very interested. Those over 20 without children at home may not be aware of Efron, but everyone else is. Girls slept outside on the street of his hotel every night when he was filming Hairspray. He's so gooed over by girls that I Hate Zac Efron clubs have been popping up at high schools (including the school his cousin attends). He has been a teen-mag fixture for the past year and a half, appearing somewhere on the cover of every Tiger Beat and Bop, according to their editor's estimation, during that time. Efron...
Until a year and a half ago, his personal life was particularly uninteresting. Efron was living at home, having his mom drive him to auditions about twice a month in Los Angeles, where they would sleep on a cousin's couch. He got a few guest roles on TV shows, but his parents gave him 12 months to make a living as an actor or else he'd have to go to USC, where he had deferred his freshman year. Time was about up when an actor friend told him he'd tried out for a Disney musical, and Efron...
Though he masks it with charm, Efron pushes hard, maybe a little too hard, on the normal-guy thing. He frets about coming off as arrogant. He lives in a rented apartment in the Valley--not even a nice part of the Valley--which he cleans himself, or, more accurately, doesn't. He says he has no interest in fame, which is why he is one of the few High School Musical stars not to have signed a record contract. And why he refuses to have lunch at the Ivy, where people go to be shot by paparazzi...