Zac Efron, who’s new film Charlie St. Cloud can be seen in theaters right now, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Details magazine. In his coverstory interview, Zac explains why he decided to NOT appear in the Footloose remake, his new film Charlie St. Cloud and how [...]
Zac Efron, who’s new film Charlie St. Cloud can be seen in theaters right now, is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Details magazine. In his coverstory interview, Zac explains why he decided to NOT appear in the Footloose remake, his new film Charlie St. Cloud and how he got poison oak on his penis. Trust me, it’s a riveting story ;) Here is our first look at Zac‘s Details coverphoto and some excerpts from his coverstory interview:
Zac Efron refuses to shake my outstretched hand. “Oh, dude, I can’t,” he says. “I’ve got a bad case of poison oak.” I immediately assume this is a new no-shakes-allowed alibi for the celebrity germaphobe … The tops of his wrists finally become visible and there are two large, angry-looking patches of red, scaly, bumpy skin: The poison oak was no lie after all—the one-armed-hoodie look was an attempt at relief, not some retard-o generation-specific trend. Then I notice the plum-size patch of skin on his cheek that’s been clumsily painted over with calamine lotion. “I went backpacking over Memorial Day weekend and I just got the worst poison oak, bro,” he says. “It was my first time getting it. Dude, it’s, like, everywhere. Everywhere. I can’t even begin to show you, ’cause you’ll get so grossed out. I look like a zombie from Dawn of the Dead.” Coaxing commences; negotiations occur. “Okay, I’ll show you my back, but the front’s pretty gross, man,” he says, then lifts his shirt. Above the bunched-up waistband of his underwear (boxers, Hanes, blue plaid), half of his back has been taken over by a crust resembling swollen cornflakes. “This spot just popped up this morning. Don’t touch it!” Efron is under the erroneous impression that anyone who touches him will catch his cooties—and maybe even develop a taste for brains. There’s something oddly portentous about how he contracted poison oak … [Zac] led a party of nine through the woods and to a clearing that featured a majestic waterfall in a big California park that he refuses to identify for fear that the next time he hikes in, he’ll find that TMZ has established a bureau there. His dad had shown him the spot years before, and Efron wanted to share it with his friends. He had carefully avoided the poison-oak leaves the whole hike, using sticks to push them away, limboing under hanging branches. When they reached the waterfall, he climbed up the cliff face, which didn’t look so bad from below, and before he knew it he was standing 30 feet above his friends and the water below. He freaked. “My legs were shaking,” he says. “The pool started to look out of focus. It would get closer, then further away. So I sat down for a minute, but everyone was egging me on to jump. ‘Jump! Jump! Jump!’ I’d never seen anyone go off this jump. So I was like, ‘I gotta do this. I brought everyone here. We made it through the poison-oak forest. I gotta at least do this jump.’ ” From atop the cliff, Efron determined that if he jumped too far out, he’d crash against the jagged rocks on the far edge of the pool. Maybe he also saw, down there on the rocks, the desiccated dreams of all the “real deal” actors who never panned out. All he needed to do was clear one little poison-oak bush directly below. No problem. He leaped. And the second before he hit the freezing water, he felt an ever-so-slight whoosh tickling his back and hands as the bush branches transferred enough of the dread urushiol oil to eventually spread over every part of his body—even his much-squealed-over teen-idol dick. “That was it,” he says of the leap. “The moment I got it.”
Details even managed to get personal photos from Zac of the ill-fated jump from which he contracted this heinous case of poison oak:
I understand when he means he got poison oak “everywhere” on his body, he means “everywhere”. After the jump, check out a few photos from Zac’s Details photospread and read a few more excerpts from his interview …
The stars also seemed to be aligned when Efron and High School Musical director Kenny Ortega were set to reunite for a remake of Footloose. Paramount was gung ho, as were Ortega; Efron’s longtime manager, Jason Barrett; and David Efron, whom Zac consults on every potential project. The sole holdout was Zac himself, who got a decidedly hinky feeling after reading the script. “All the things I loved about Footloose I couldn’t find in the project,” he says. “They just weren’t there. I couldn’t see myself doing it.” During a series of phone calls, Ortega worked hard on him, asked him if he didn’t think that what he was feeling was fear of failure and told him that on occasions such as this caution must be abandoned. “I was doing my very, very best to excite him and inspire him into wanting to do this,” Ortega says. “I believed in my heart that we could do it together as a team, and I fought to keep him in the game.” Efron finally called Ortega to tell him he was passing. “I love Kenny with all my heart,” he says. “It was literally the hardest phone call I’ve ever made.”
You can read the entire online version of this Details interview HERE. Additionally, a behind-the-scenes video of Zac‘s shoot has been made available for our viewing pleasure:
Zac seems like a very likable young man … and it sounds like he’s got his head on straight. I hope he manages to keep doing what he’s doing and not get jaded and swayed by the pitfalls that invariably pop up in a life like his. I actually like that he is settled with girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens … he just seems like a cool kid. My friend Jordan LOVED Charlie St. Cloud and has convinced me to check it out for myself … here’s hoping Zac continues to impress me.
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