Zac Efron sang and danced his way to success in the wildly popular High School Musical movies–not to mention Hairspray.

Now, he’s taking a serious turn in Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles, playing a high-school kid who lucks into a big break in Welles’ famous production of Julius Caesar. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why Efron was ready to take a gamble on a serious dramatic role.

“I had never done anything like this before. I was still reeling from everything that had happened to me, all the attention I was suddenly getting from High School Musical. I thought, ‘Maybe this time I’ve bitten off more than I can chew because I’m not singing…”

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Filed under: Parade by admin | 11.24.2009
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