Zac Efron: Seventeen, Again?
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kingandyZac Efron was born in 1987.
In 2006 he starred in Highsical Musical; Efron was 19 (or, charitably, 18 during filming). Since the second movie covers summer and the third his senior year, one can deduce that here he is portraying a 16-17 year old. (Unless the character had to repeat a year. Never having seen the movie, I don't know how specific the script is on this point.) This is fair enough.
Three years later he's 21, and is appearing in a movie titled "17 Again", one of those tired age-change movies that have been knocking around since 1976. Apparently Efron plays Matthew Perry reduced to 17. There's just one problem.
HE DOESN'T PASS FOR SEVENTEEN!
Even with the magic of Photoshop, the movie posters can't disguise the fact that he's over twenty. I realise it's common practice to cast young-looking older actors as high school students (cue anecdote about Xander from Buffy having to shave between takes), but Efron is maturing steadily. They seem to be relying on the public's memory of HSM to counteract the fact of his mawkish, fifteen-foot-tall, twenty-year-old face smiling beatifically down at them. He's a pretty twenty-year-old, but undeniably into his third decade.
Evidently his character has a malfunctioning pituitary gland, or is on steroids, or something.
On a tangentially related point I am interested to see that - it says here - he contributed to Firefly (appearing briefly as the young Simon Tam). So I do in fact own some Efron footage. Wait, do I? I'm pretty sure I bought it at some point but I can't remember seeing it recently. Hum, maybe I left it at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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In 2006 he starred in Highsical Musical; Efron was 19 (or, charitably, 18 during filming). Since the second movie covers summer and the third his senior year, one can deduce that here he is portraying a 16-17 year old. (Unless the character had to repeat a year. Never having seen the movie, I don't know how specific the script is on this point.) This is fair enough.
Three years later he's 21, and is appearing in a movie titled "17 Again", one of those tired age-change movies that have been knocking around since 1976. Apparently Efron plays Matthew Perry reduced to 17. There's just one problem.
HE DOESN'T PASS FOR SEVENTEEN!
Even with the magic of Photoshop, the movie posters can't disguise the fact that he's over twenty. I realise it's common practice to cast young-looking older actors as high school students (cue anecdote about Xander from Buffy having to shave between takes), but Efron is maturing steadily. They seem to be relying on the public's memory of HSM to counteract the fact of his mawkish, fifteen-foot-tall, twenty-year-old face smiling beatifically down at them. He's a pretty twenty-year-old, but undeniably into his third decade.
Evidently his character has a malfunctioning pituitary gland, or is on steroids, or something.
On a tangentially related point I am interested to see that - it says here - he contributed to Firefly (appearing briefly as the young Simon Tam). So I do in fact own some Efron footage. Wait, do I? I'm pretty sure I bought it at some point but I can't remember seeing it recently. Hum, maybe I left it at
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Date: 2009-04-23 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-23 11:08 am (UTC)I just feel vaguely insulted that the entire premise of the movie is that "Zac Efron Is Seventeen" when he clearly isn't. "Zac Efron Is Pretty" - fair enough. "Seventeen" - no.
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Date: 2009-04-23 07:11 pm (UTC)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007514/
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