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Zac Efron is at the next stage of his career, and he knows it. Though he’s ceded his teen dream status to Taylor Lautner, the 22-year-old Efron is nothing if not savvy about picking his next wave of projects: Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles proved that Efron could go indie for a respected director, while the new romantic drama Charlie St. Cloud courts the female audience who’s grown up with him, yet gives Efron his first meaty, adult role. Where will he go from here? As he told Movieline, that’s the question at the forefront of his mind.
In advance of Comic-Con, we published an excerpt of Efron discussing his reluctance to commit to superhero roles, but here’s the full interview, where Efron touches on the evolution of his acting technique, the projects he has in development at his new production shingle (and the idea behind its unique name), and how he feels when shirtless paparazzi photos of him make the cover of People magazine.
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.
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Enjoy Zac’s guest appearance on Lopez Tonight (July 29) below or on YouTube (Pt. 2 HERE) (thanks to user fpvault). Charlie St. Cloud is in theaters in the US nation-wide TODAY! Buy tickets online at Moviefone, Fandango, or the Charlie St. Cloudofficial website.
Head over to the Official Charlie St. Cloud Facebook to check out Zac’s message to his fans. Don’t forget to tune in tonight to Zac’s appearance on Lopez Tonight and Charlie St. Cloud will open in theaters in the U.S. nationwide tomorrow. Scroll down to check out more of the latest updates on Zac.
Four more new photos from Zac’s recent 2010 photoshoot with Ben Watts have been added to the gallery. Images courtesy of Ben Watts, Universal Pictures, and thanks to Andy for the heads up!
Zac Efron is more than just a pretty face. In Charlie St Cloud, Zac Efron proves his dramatic mettle as a brother who loses his little brother to a drunk driver and must face life alone.
The range of emotions Zac Efron goes through as an actor in Charlie St Cloud is immense and the High School Musical and Hairspray actor welcomed the challenge with gusto.
“I loved what the movie stood for — the themes and messages about families and strength,” Zac Efron said. “Being able to move on, keeping your loved ones alive inside your heart, it all rang true to me.”
Zac Efron knew he wanted to act at an early age. His proximity to Hollywood, growing up in Southern California, allowed him to be at the right place at the right time. That moment, as the world knows, was the phenomenon of High School Musical.
Not only did High School Musical provide the venue for Zac Efron to meet the love of his life, Vanessa Hudgens, but it also sent him from a Disney darling to someone who could potentially be the next Tom Cruise. If his turn in High School Musical and Hairspray is akin to Cruise’s Top Gun and Days of Thunder, then Charlie St Cloud is Zac Efron’s Born on the Fourth of July. We are not suggesting Zac Efron is an Oscar-caliber actor as Tom Cruise was with his nominated portrayal of the real-life Ron Kovic, but what we are saying is that Zac Efron is every bit as capable to follow in Cruise’s footsteps with a blockbuster career.
SheKnows: There’s a real sense of a brotherly bond in Charlie St Cloud. How did you and actor Charlie Tahan find each other that you were able to pull that off?
Zac Efron: There are your typical everyday brothers. We’re a bit closer. We didn’t grow up with a father in the movie. We really rely on each other for a lot more in that camaraderie. I’m trying to raise him to be the young man that can be successful and strong. We have a stronger than normal brother relationship.
SheKnows: Charlie told us that he’s not really into sports…yet you would never know it watching the film.
Zac Efron: Baseball is the way that we connect. It’s our ritual. We talk about it and connect over it. That’s the way I instill a lot of the rules of success in him. It’s through a foundation — baseball.
SheKnows: And sailing, too, you guys really demonstrate you know what you’re doing out there…
Zac Efron: That was really fun. For such a short scene, it took a long time to film. The sailing scenes were fun and they’re great for the movie. But, when you’re out there doing the real sailing, it’s hard. Because the boats are so unstable and you’re on them for so long, we wouldn’t get seasick, we’d actually get land sick. We’d come back onto land and everything would be moving [laughs]. I remember buildings looked like they were shaking, it was so weird. But, we did become pretty good sailors by the end.
SheKnows: Zac, this role is a bit out of your comfort zone of late. Yet, everyone is kind of expecting great things of you. How’s that for a challenge?
Zac Efron: My first reaction when I read the script was that it was really emotional. I connected with it. I have a little brother in real life. Envisioning what it would be like to lose my little brother evoked a very strong emotional reaction. I loved that.
Zac Efron’s new movie “Charlie St. Cloud,” out Friday, is certainly a far cry from his shiny, sugar-coated “High School Musical” trilogy. But judging from the film’s trailers, there are some similarities to a few other recent films with an emotional/romantic theme, namely “Dear John,” “Remember Me” and “The Last Song.” When MTV News spoke with Efron, we asked him why this film is different, and how the story toes the line between sappy and sentimental.
“I didn’t think it was going to be sappy,” Efron said. “Because [director Burr Steers] doesn’t do sappy, you know what I mean? Burr is very grounded. He is all about story and dialogue and plot and all about real.”
Efron added that Steers, whom he also worked with on “17 Again,” will quickly put the kibosh on superficiality if he sees it in an actor’s performance. “If he sees [superficial] acting, he would come in and just, psshhhhh [He pantomimes an explosion with his hands]. So I’ve really had to trust him with that. And we all do, we all did. And you know, it turned out right.”
The 22-year-old went on to say that he doesn’t think “Charlie St. Cloud” gets too sentimental. “But at the same time, I wanted to make sure the audience got what they needed from it,” he said. “Hopefully they are fulfilled and leave asking some cool questions.”
It will be interesting to see how well fans receive Efron in his “St. Cloud” role, especially since it was recently announced that Efron has been pegged to star in “The Lucky One,” the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ novel about an American marine who credits his survival in the Iraq War to a photograph of a woman he’s never met. “Lucky One” adds to the already lengthy list of projects to which Efron is reportedly attached.
Hollywood hottie Zac Efron is best known for his killer abs, his high-profile romance with Vanessa Hudgens and his sugary-sweet role in the High School Musical films. Since graduating from the Disney franchise, he’s been eager prove his talent as more than just a teen star — but the actor promises to take his devoted fans along for the ride.
“I would never want to do anything to alienate or betray these fans that have been so great,” Efron tells iVillage exclusively. “I want to stay a little bit ahead of the audience, experience life and make movies about those experiences. When they catch up to that age and gain perspective on life and realize that not everything is like High School Musical, there’ll be a movie there to help them through that next stage of their lives.”
In his new drama Charlie St. Cloud (which hits theatres July 30), Efron, 22, plays a young man dealing with the death of his younger brother — a serious departure from the happy-go-lucky HSM films. To get into character, the actor says he thought about his own little brother, Dylan.
“I pictured what life would be like without him, and that was more than enough to get to that place,” he says. “You just have to have something real to think about, that you can relate to.”
Watch our exclusive video interview to find out from Efron what his 12-year-old costar thinks of his crazy fans, and why he’s trying to enjoy the female attention as much as possible.
Before the start of the advance screening of Universal Pictures’ Charlie St. Cloud in Melbourne, FL on July 28th, Zac had a very special surprise message for those that attended. Zac made a video to play before the advance screening letting everyone know that non-profit To Write Love on Her Arms and his new movie had a lot in common.
Zac stated in his video, “To Write Love on Her Arms is something truly special and there is a lot in common with the mission and this movie. Charlie St. Cloud is a story about overcoming loss and grief, about the power of love to help you discover a life worth living. I know that is a message you care about too.”
Non-profit organization To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) hosted a free advance screening of Universal Pictures’ Charlie St. Cloud, starring Zac Efron, on Wednesday July 28, in Melbourne, FL this evening. The special screening was held for TWLOHA supporters before the film opens nationwide on July 30.
TWLOHA created an evening that shared hope, help and community. “We want our supporters to feel celebrated and special,” said TWLOHA founder and Melbourne Beach native Jamie Tworkowski. “We want to give them a taste of what a film premiere is like, and we love that we’re able to make this happen in Melbourne.”
Charlie St. Cloud deals with letting go and starting over, themes related to TWLOHA’s mission of presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. As it does at its annual HEAVY AND LIGHT event in Orlando, TWLOHA plans to give every attendee information that points to local counseling and treatment resources. In addition, there will be speakers, TWLOHA merchandise available and a chance to meet the TWLOHA Team.
For more information on To Write Love on Her Arms, please go to: www.twloha.com.
The lights were down low in a movie theater, and up on the screen, Zac Efron was about to kiss a girl when a collection of shrill “oohs” and “aahs” interrupted the intimate moment.
With “Charlie St. Cloud,” out Friday, Efron tackles his first commercially dramatic role — a move that signals his desire to leave behind his reputation as a teen heartthrob. But considering his very vocal fans at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles last week, it may take more than just one film to make the break.
“I think that happens in a lot of movies,” Efron said, shrugging off the hooting and hollering while sitting on the patio of a Sunset Strip hotel beside director Burr Steers a few days after the premiere.
“With ‘Twilight’ too, I think. They work themselves up,” added Steers. “But you saw — with Zac, he gets, like, a Beatles reaction.”
Tuesday Tips – Where you learn, in all honest detail, the need for organization, planning and composure in a 5 minute portrait. (times are approximate and quotes are paraphrased..)
9:30 a.m. Coming back from another assignment, I’m told that I would have a portrait Zac Efron at 11:00. I bemoan lack of advance notice (which had to happen for reasons too complicated to go into here). Shooting news, I need to quickly shift gears to photograph a celebrity…
9:45 a.m. – Arrive at paper and look for the tilt shift lenses in the pool locker- “Arrggh, Where did they all go?” I grab an 85mm f/1.8 lens, thinking shallow depth of field with my Canon 5DMarkII.
10:00 a.m. – Looking at websites to update myself on what Zac has been doing and what direction he might be wanting to go as an actor. Nice guy? Tough guy? Dark? Light? Serious?
10:15 a.m. – Look at recent pictures of him from a Parade shoot and at other photojournalists’ celebrity portraits to get creative juices flowing. Wow, Jay Clendenin has been doing great work.
10:20 a.m. – Go down to car and rifle through all my equipment and brainstorm what I can do with equipment available. Theorize that a shallow depth of field with high speed sync of softboxes using Canon Speedlites might work. On-camera infra-red controller forms basis of shoot.
10:40 a.m. – Leave for Peninsula Hotel.
10:55 a.m. – Arrive to be greeted immediately by public relations representative. Reporter and I are ushered up to wait in the hallway outside of hotel door. Not ideal. Don’t know what kind of light I’m facing, colors of walls, placement of couches, etc…But in the end, it’s just a hotel room.
Head over to the official Charlie St. Cloud Facebook to check out a great new video of Zac’s appearance at the Mall of America and Zac Dives In, a new Charlie St. Cloud behind the scenes HD featurette.
