Does Zac Efron Know Lines From His Most Famous Movies?
Zac Efron tries to identify lines from some of his most well-known movies. He talks about coming of age with his 'High School Musical' castmates, learning from Mathew Perry on the set of '17 Again' and transforming into the wrestler Kevin von Erich for 'The Iron Claw.'
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00:00 - Got it.
00:01 I say this?
00:02 Let's go.
00:03 Let's go.
00:05 You can't stump me.
00:06 Ooh, I don't know.
00:06 You might've stumped me with this one.
00:08 I'm not sure.
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00:11 I thought you were my friends.
00:14 Win together, lose together, teammates.
00:17 High School Musical?
00:20 Nice.
00:22 First one?
00:23 They're all similar dialogue, I don't know.
00:26 - I thought that you're my friends.
00:28 Win together, lose together, teammates.
00:30 - The cast and the group of people making that movie
00:33 was just magical.
00:34 There's a time and a place for everything
00:36 and everything happens for a reason
00:38 and High School Musical's the prime example for that.
00:41 I've never had so much fun, maybe a few times,
00:44 but it was still, to this day,
00:47 maybe one of the most fun experiences of my whole life.
00:49 It just shows on camera.
00:51 The whole first movie,
00:52 we practiced those dance routines once or twice.
00:55 We just get up there and do it.
00:57 So I couldn't believe we got ahead in the game.
00:58 I couldn't believe we got a clean take of that.
01:00 The first couple takes,
01:01 there were basketballs flying everywhere.
01:03 It was chaos.
01:04 We were like, "We're never gonna get this."
01:06 And then everyone from the window just nailed it.
01:07 It changed everything for me.
01:10 I had just a really great group of friends.
01:12 It was fun to be out there doing really exciting, fun,
01:16 music-forward work.
01:17 It wasn't so serious.
01:19 Definitely made me very popular, so that was interesting.
01:22 I remember I could afford to move out of my house
01:25 and live in LA.
01:27 Everything got really interesting from that point forward.
01:31 Padres, before I sleep with tu madres.
01:34 And that's from Neighbors.
01:36 - Padres, before I sleep with tu madres.
01:40 - We did a ton of improv on that movie.
01:42 There's at least some improv in every scene I'm in.
01:44 It was really fun.
01:45 Dave was the best.
01:46 Yeah, he crushed that.
01:47 Usually the funny stories with Seth
01:49 are just how much general improv we were doing.
01:53 It was always surprising what he comes up with.
01:56 And also when you get two or three lines deep
02:00 and you stick with the character,
02:01 some just ridiculous stuff comes out.
02:03 Just in general, doing that with Seth is hilarious.
02:06 It's so much fun.
02:07 I just woke up in jail with a bunch of penises on my forehead.
02:10 Dirty Grandpa.
02:13 I just woke up in fucking jail
02:16 with a bunch of penises on my forehead.
02:18 There was a couple times that he,
02:21 they were kinda out there sayings.
02:22 I can't remember specifically which ones,
02:24 nor would I repeat them on Variety.
02:26 But there were some pretty vulgar things he was saying
02:30 and he had no idea what he was talking about.
02:32 So he'd be like, he'd look at me in between takes and go,
02:35 "What does that mean?"
02:36 I'd be like, "Oh, you don't wanna know that."
02:38 He's so masterful at committing with the emotion
02:43 and kinda sticking with it.
02:44 So you get to a point where it's like,
02:46 you don't know if you're gonna use any of it.
02:48 And we got there like every day.
02:50 He would just shut me down with amazing improv
02:54 and I would just break.
02:55 'Cause him saying ridiculous stuff is like,
02:58 I don't know, it's like he's got God's voice, sort of.
03:02 You know, it's like.
03:04 Because as much as I know about laptops,
03:06 I don't know shit about computers.
03:08 Oh my gosh, this was an improv.
03:11 Baywatch?
03:13 Got it, let's go.
03:15 - 'Cause as much as I know about laptops,
03:17 I don't know shit about computers.
03:19 - It's funny, when you watch source material
03:21 and you're doing something, I remember going like,
03:24 "We're really gonna recreate it like this?
03:26 "This is, is this a good idea?"
03:28 I don't want that to come across the wrong way.
03:30 We ended up kinda just doing our own thing for that movie.
03:33 I did legit swim lessons and a ton of training.
03:37 That was really intense.
03:38 And we had a really great stunt crew on that movie.
03:40 There's a lot of stunts looking back on it.
03:42 We do some pretty ridiculous stuff in that movie.
03:45 It was really fun.
03:46 Four tickets to that party,
03:48 you called the right guy.
03:49 Neighbors?
03:55 [buzzer]
03:55 I say this?
03:57 Oh!
03:58 New Year's Eve.
04:00 [bell dings]
04:00 Yes!
04:01 - Four tickets to that party,
04:03 you called the right guy.
04:04 - I've never done a movie like New Year's Eve before.
04:07 And it was a massive ensemble, really big cast,
04:11 big setup, beautiful sequences of New Year's Eve
04:16 that were so much fun.
04:17 But I had the benefit of being with Michelle Pfeiffer
04:20 for all of my stuff.
04:21 And she's, I love her to death.
04:23 She's so much fun.
04:24 And it just felt like I was on a mini vacation
04:26 with her in New York, which was awesome.
04:28 It was just a great experience.
04:29 But I think it was like the New Year's Eve actual kiss
04:32 that Michelle had.
04:33 I'll never forget that.
04:34 It was very special.
04:37 My prom is wherever you are.
04:39 My prom is wherever you are.
04:43 High school musical?
04:46 Three?
04:47 [bell dings]
04:48 Let's go.
04:49 Let's go.
04:51 You can't stump me.
04:52 My prom is wherever you are.
04:55 When we made High School Musical one,
04:57 we definitely had no idea that there would be two or three.
05:00 It was just like a roller coaster that wouldn't drop.
05:04 It was so much fun.
05:05 But we were so happy when they came around.
05:09 We just were all so stoked.
05:11 It was like the most fun musical summer camp
05:15 with everybody that was becoming progressively more elite
05:19 at singing, dancing, and just the arts and entertainment
05:23 all crammed together from the days before
05:27 anyone was popular to after.
05:29 By the time three hit, we were just firing.
05:32 It was so fun.
05:33 The musical genre, it's tricky.
05:36 I would love to do another musical.
05:38 It's hard though.
05:41 It's like once you've done High School Musical,
05:45 it takes a greatest showman to separate itself from that.
05:49 I still want to do the same thing over and over again.
05:52 Listen, girls, if you don't respect yourself,
05:54 how do you expect others to respect you?
05:57 How do you expect others?
05:59 Ooh, I don't know.
06:02 You might have stumped me with this one.
06:03 I'm not sure.
06:04 It's gonna come to me.
06:06 17 again, maybe?
06:07 [bell dings]
06:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
06:10 If you girls don't respect yourselves,
06:13 then how do you expect anyone else to respect you?
06:17 I had the benefit of being able to watch Matthew
06:22 my whole life before that movie started.
06:25 It's not like we hammered home how to do the jokes
06:28 or the character, I just had to make it true to myself
06:31 and be able to make it happen.
06:32 But there's those things that Matthew Perry just invented.
06:36 The way he kind of just brought humor to camera,
06:38 they're like ingrained in me.
06:40 I think they're a huge part of why I'm here.
06:43 You know, it was comedic timing from Matthew Perry
06:46 for years and years and years.
06:48 I could kind of go through a scene in my mind
06:50 and be like, "Oh, he'd definitely do this.
06:52 "Oh, he'd definitely do that."
06:53 That was really all it took.
06:54 And that and putting yourself in your dad's shoes,
06:57 which was really crazy.
06:58 Yeah, but thanks, Matthew.
07:01 Ever since I was a child, people said my family was cursed.
07:05 And that's from "Iron Claw," or "The Iron Claw."
07:08 [bell dings]
07:09 - Ever since I was a child,
07:11 people said my family was cursed.
07:14 - The movie's really, it's epic.
07:16 It's an epic story.
07:17 I think everyone can really kind of relate
07:19 to the story as well.
07:21 It really is a story about love and family
07:26 and the lengths that you're willing to go
07:29 for the people that you love.
07:30 It's truly beautiful.
07:31 I think it's gonna surprise a lot of people.
07:32 So I'm pumped for everyone to see that one.
07:35 I think a lot goes into playing anyone
07:36 that's ever really existed.
07:38 But having the person be around
07:40 and still be able to see it,
07:42 like Kevin Von Eyrik is for this movie,
07:44 it just makes me have an extra layer
07:46 of wanting precision and making sure
07:50 that you're doing it justice.
07:51 It just motivated me extra hard, I would say.
07:55 It just makes it all very real and close to home.
07:58 And I did get to talk to him,
07:59 and I know he's seen the movie.
08:00 And he told me he really liked it.
08:04 And we talked for a long time about it.
08:06 So yeah, mission accomplished, man.
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