Zac Efron’s Interview with The Daily Telegraph

Zac Efron recently did an interview with The Daily Telegraph. In it he guardedly talks about his relationship with on- and off-screen girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens, though he refuses to talk about how long they’ve actually been together. He does admit that working with her in the High School Musical movies was just like working with his best friend.

He won’t talk about where he and Vanessa went on vacation last summer after the completion of three films, though we already know they went to Turks and Caicos.

He also admits that since he “became legal” in October he did pop open a beer with his dad but won’t say what brand it was. However, we do finally find out that Vanessa gave him a “very nice painting” for his birthday! I guess that’s something, right? I can understand wanting to keep as much of your private life private, but the reporter sure did a great job writing about all the stuff he didn’t want to talk about!

Thankfully, he finally seems to open up when the subject of his early acting career is mentioned. He talks about how his parents encouraged him and took him to his first audition in 1998 for Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy for a local theater company (“Actually, my parents didn’t even tell me they were taking me to an audition. I thought we were going to Toys ‘R’ Us. I thought I was going to pick up a new video game.”)

It mentions a few of his earlier one-shot roles in ER, NCIS, CSI: Miami, and The Guardian (though, oddly nothing about his appearance on Firefly).

The bottom of the article has a fun “Fact File” that includes a few facts like “When HSM 2 was released in August 2007, Efron became the most searched for celebrity on the internet movie database IMDB,” and “‘Breaking Free’, his duet with Hudgens from HSM 1, had the fastest one-week climb in the history of the American Billboard charts, going from No 86 to No 4 in 2006.”

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