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Continuing to promote his new flick "Charlie St. Cloud," Zac Efron made a guest appearance on "Live with Regis and Kelly" on Tuesday, July 27.
In related news, Zac is in chats to play a soldier and a gunman in the new film adaptation of Nicolas Sparks' novel "The Lucky One," which will be directed by Scott Hicks.
The film is about a US marine who survives war in Iraq thanks to a "lucky charm" - a photo of a girl he has never met, but who he sets out to find when he returns home.
Zac Efron signed autographs and posed with fans as he arrived at his hotel in New York City on Monday, July 26.
Recently, the "Me and Orson Welles" actor did an interview with Movieline. Here's the highlight:
Your last two movies were directed by Burr Steers. What is it about him that makes him different from the other directors you've worked with? Burr is very performance-oriented. He's very good at explaining different points of view and finding interesting motivations; basically, he's great with actors, and he's great with me. I'm not necessarily trained - I never have been - I've just kind of gone from project to project and learned as I went along, and I always thought everyone I worked with was an "actor's director" just because they were nice to actors. Burr has sort of redefined that for me. He's very generous, very giving, and also a perfectionist. I appreciate that because I am too, and I never want to quit until we've got it.
This is a much more subtle performance than you've had before, though. Is it more daunting to approach a scene where you're supposed to very little and hope it all comes through onscreen, or to be given a scene that's very showy and emotional? I've always been more inclined to the showy and emotional. No one ever really told me otherwise! I didn't know what I was appreciating in other people's performances, and the movie that really helped me wrap my head around it was No Country For Old Men, where you are so deeply devoted to those characters. The actors are so specific, and they don't give too much - actually, it's what they don't give that's more interesting. Burr's been a revelation with that sort of thing, explaining internalization and that sort of stuff.
He's more inclined to have you do more by doing less? But by doing less, you can't do nothing. As long as you're thinking in terms of the character and as long as you really feel it, it's going to show. You don't have to necessarily have to emote what you're doing, you know? Burr is very Meisner. He's always dropping acting philosophies from different coaches, and I read this Meisner book he gave me after 17 Again that just sat on my coffee table forever, with this picture of an old-looking dude with gray hair and glasses on the cover. [Laughs] It's a hard one to turn the first page, but I just sat and down and committed that I was going to read it all, and then I couldn't put it down as soon as I started it. I read the whole thing in about three days. It's just fascinating, and it's all those little things that I wouldn't have gotten into if it weren't for Burr.
You say you aren't formally trained, but you've been acting in this business for a long time. Did you feel like there was a point where you had to break yourself of habits you developed as a child performer? Yeah. It was always through observation, seeing what I liked from other people's performances in movies or fellow actors that I worked with. I've always been kind of improvisational, which is not always a good thing, believe it or not. I always thought it was great and really fun to do, but a lot of writers really want you to stick to the script, and it is your responsibility. [Laughs]
You'll have to get yourself into an Apatow movie, then. I would love to, man. I would love to work for those guys.
You're at the age when actors get offered superheroes and tentpole films. Has that been happening to you? Do they come to you with, say, the new Spider-Man? You know, they do here and there. When a superhero movie is about to get made, we're at different levels of conversation about it. I find that it's hard to commit to an action movie for the sake of doing action. I love action as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite genre or one that I look for an amazing performance in. I'd say that it's what's underneath the action or what's driving it that's really important, and is that necessarily in a superhero movie? I don't know, maybe. It'd be fun to try. Every superhero origin story is pretty powerful, and there's usually something to tell there; it's not just about someone gaining powers, there's a lot more to it. There's life lessons in comic books, and I know, because I read them. I learned a s**tload from comics, you know? I think it would be about finding the right one.
But they've come to you before, and it hasn't been the right one or the right time? It hasn't been the right time necessarily, or it's too early. I don't feel that I've earned it quite yet, to be honest. The people that you see them find for superheroes, you go, "Oh yeah, that's great. That guy is perfect, what a great idea." Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern? You go, "Finally, he's going to do something great! We've been waiting for it, he's done all these other things and now I want to see him as that character."
Or they go and cast someone like Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, who isn't generally known to a wide audience. But that's a whole different thing, you know? He's coming in as an unknown. Once you sort of establish yourself...I'm in-between, you know what I mean? Andrew Garfield is going to be amazing in that movie because he's got a brand-new, fresh perspective, and to be thrown into that character so quickly, he's going to be able to redefine that brand in a way that we've never seen before. It'll be amazing. You've sort of seen me before. [Laughs] I don't know. I think you really have to pay your dues once you've been established.
When you say you have to earn it, who do you have to earn it with: the audience, or yourself? I think for me. I need to have the belief in myself to be able to go and do that. Also, I have a self-awareness of what is out there: Right now, if I was looking at me from someone else's eyes - like the eyes of the guys who are going to go watch a superhero movie - I can't say that I'd be "two thumbs up" for me to star in an action movie right now.
Why not? Why would I be? I haven't done anything to pay those dues yet, I haven't made any movies for those fans yet. I think you have to earn the right to hold a gun. You have to earn the right to shoot web.
You're much more self-deprecating than I thought you would be, Zac. You talk about having to learn technique and earn the places you want to go...does it worry you to have to do all that learning in the spotlight? No, that part's fun, man. The stakes are high, but that's why it's interesting. I'm ready, man. That's the thing: I'm willing to put in that work to get there. I know that given the right time and the right guidance, I can do it, and I'm confident in myself in that way. I'm not shy about that. I know I will be able to do it.
You're generating material now under your own production banner, Ninjas Runnin' Wild. Please tell me about coming up with that title. Well, I'm not going to tell you the exact story of how it came up...
Oh, it's a mystery. Perhaps it is a mystery, and I think it should stay that way. [Laughs] Having watched movies all my life, I know you sit in a theater and those [production logos] pop up all the time before a movie, like the one Spyglass has with the man looking through [a telescope], that kind of stuff...
So will there be actual ninjas runnin' wild for yours? I mean, hopefully! Hopefully. Just something that goes, "BLAAH!" that's a little crazy and different, and when you see it, you're like, "OK, here we go again." [Laughs] Something memorable that has some punch to it.
You're attached to a workplace comedy that was just announced in the trades. What can you tell me about it? Is it in the vein of The Office? No, it's not like The Office. It's...how would I describe it? We're literally still looking at treatments for it, so it's really early on. Right now, it's about a young man working his way to the top, and the lengths he has to go to succeed. Is that good?
Is it a dark comedy? No, not really. Well, wait. Is it dark? I don't know yet. [Laughs] It's not written. I sure hope there's some dark moments in it, because I love that stuff.
You went to the Maui Film Festival recently, and shirtless paparazzi photos of you there ended up on the cover of People in just a few days. Are you conscious of that when it happens? Does being objectified like that frustrate you at all? It was like, what am I going to do: go to Hawaii and not go to the beach and say for the rest of my life that I didn't do it because [the paparazzi] were there, or am I just going to brave it, go out, and let all that happen?
Is that just something you've had to fold into your daily life: If you choose to do something outside, there will be someone who will take pictures of you doing it? Sort of, more or less. I mean, I'll say that it goes through my mind a lot. You just have to know that if you're in a place that isn't private property - if you're in anywhere public - more often than not, there's going to be someone there. If you're even anywhere where there's people nowadays...people are so integrated with their [mobile phone] cameras. It's like The Matrix.
So you could be eating at a restaurant, and you know that girl at the corner table is taking a picture of you on her camera phone that she's going to post to Twitter or Perez Hilton? It goes through my mind sometimes, you know? I try not to dwell on it, and I try not to put myself in those scenarios. It gets frustrating. I'm definitely aware of it most of the time when it's happening - I feel like I kind of know what's really going on.
At least you got the cover of People for "Best Beach Bodies" instead of for doing something bad. It's not the worst thing in the world. And you know, aside from that, I had this amazing trip with my brother. He's just graduated from school, and I haven't been able to connect with him as much as I've wanted to since I've been away filming and going on trips. I really got to take him away from the family for the first time to go on a brothers trip, and we had the time of our lives. We just tore it up! Every single day, by the time 8:30 rolled around [at night], one of us would conk out and then we'd wake up at 7 and have a full day of hiking through the jungles of Maui or surfing. We lived it up, and it was really fun.
When it comes to decide which teams of "The Twilight Saga" battle - the vampire Edward Cullen or the werewolf Jacob Black - he is rooting for, Zac Efron had to said "I need to catch up. I need to see the last film before I can fully decide."
The "High School Musical" hunk continued, "Based on the first one, I think Team Edward for sure. I haven't seen the latest ones yet, but I will."
Zac Efron does James Dean in the Sunday, July 25, issue of Parade magazine.
Inside the mag, the Hollywood heartthrob had to share:
On what attracted him to such a sobering role: "Every once in awhile, you read a script and you get that special feeling in your gut. I was touched by what the character, Charlie, goes through, and I thought it was a story worth sharing. And the fact that I have a little brother myself gave it a lot of resonance."
On his Hawaii trip with his brother: "[I] kicked off the summer by taking my little brother, Dylan, on a graduation trip to Hawaii. He's going off to college next year, and I've been working very hard, so we haven't been able to see each other as much as we would have liked to in the past few years. We hiked through the inner jungle in Maui, and you come across these really beautiful spots. We found this hidden place where there was an enormous waterfall and cliff jump. It was about a thirty-five foot drop."
On taking the plunge: "Once you've done it, the funny part is trying to convince someone else to jump off, too. I'm the one who's always saying, 'Go for it, go for it -- jump!' And then when you come up out of the water, you feel fantastic."
On his performance in Me and Orson Welles: "It was pretty intimidating at first. So I really had to convince myself that I had the right to be there. But that's where the rush is. You say, 'Can I really do this? Can I pull it off?' The fun part of acting is testing your limits in every way, constantly throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks. But since you never know how it's gonna wind up, it's a lot like gambling."
On his dad: "I learned problem-solving from my dad; with him, everything is logical and has to make sense." He contuinued, "I'm not exactly sure what he's in charge of. He's kind of top secret about it; he could in fact be a spy and be lying to me about the whole thing."
On his excitement about music: "I still like to sing along with whatever I'm listening to. I just got a pretty good sound system put in, and it's playing on a loop all day. If I don't have music on, I get this weird kind of anxiety. I don't like to be home alone without something playing." He added, "I always have music on. The other day, I found out my biggest expense isn't electricity or gas it's iTunes. I spend way too much on music, movies, apps, and games. I've got to get that under control."
On his girlfriend Vanessa going for Mimi in Rent: "I'm not neat by nature, but I'm kind of figuring it out -- and Vanessa helps out a lot. Right now, we're doing great and just having a lot of fun together."
On a part of a clique in school like his character in High School Musical: "I never noticed them in my own high school. And if there were cliques, I probably intermixed with all of them. I was probably what you'd call a floater."
On studying hard for his Advanced Placement classes just a few short years ago: "Looking back at that AP stuff now, we probably were the nerds. But that's okay -- they're always the coolest people."
On still being a student at heart: "I start to think, 'Am I missing out on something?' I'm not in school at the moment, so I tend to overcompensate by trying to learn as much as I can about everything else, and by tackling life full-on. I'm just soaking up everything I can. I'd like to see the whole world."
Zac Efron Meets 'Charlie St. Cloud' Contest Winner
Zac Efron took his girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens attending the premiere of Charlie St. Cloud at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, California on Tuesday, July 20.
For the swanky event, Zac wore a tailored charcoal grey suit, while Vanessa dressed in a gold mini-gown.
Zac Efron stated that he will not getting married till he is 30. He told Extra, "I'm not gonna get married for a while. I think I've always said I'm not gonna get married till I'm 30, I'm gonna wait. I wouldn't want that kind of commitment or pressure at this point."
In related news, the "Charlie St. Cloud" actor and the "Beastly" actress and girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens were disappointed by their new flick's release dates.
Efron shared, "It was disappointing. It was hard. I actually had to break the news to her. I was like, 'I think we are moving on to your date.' ... She took it really well, but it's hard when that kind of stuff happens. We don't, as actors, have any control over it, so we'll see. I mean, hopefully it will work out for the best. Beastly is a great movie, and when it does come out, people are absolutely going to love it."
Hudgens added, "I just didn't feel right about us having movies coming out on the same day. It's just not right. We're actually going to be doing some re-shoots and changing it up a bit, so hopefully we'll make it that much better."
