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In case you missed it, Zac recently sat down with Vanity Fair to rewatch some of his old movies — including a clip of himself performing as the one and only Troy Bolton in the first High School Musical film, which came out in 2006.
The scene in question was his performance of “Get’cha Head In The Game,” which, as I’m sure you’ll probably recall, involves a lot of technical basketball choreography. And while rewatching, Zac quickly noted that his stunts were all his own.
Going into more detail about the shooting process, Zac recalled the complicated choreography and how “incredibly motivated” he and his co-stars were to execute the scene flawlessly — which they eventually did.
Zac revealed that he and his co-stars — including Corbin Bleu, who played Chad — were only afforded about “two days” of practice to nail the iconic basketball dribbling sequence in the number.
Of course, Zac and his co-stars were right. High School Musical turned out to be very cool indeed. The first airing of the movie on Disney Channel brought in 7.7 million viewers, breaking the record for the highest ratings for any telecast ever on the network at the time.
The billion-dollar movie franchise launched Zac’s career into a new stratosphere, turning him into the star he is today. Now, in a world where many male actors distance themselves from earlier work in hopes of being taken more seriously as performers, fans love that Zac praises HSM rather than minimizing it.
Reacting to the Vanity Fair video, a post on X with over 174,000 likes highlighted Zac’s “commitment to always speaking highly” of the franchise instead of disregarding it as “some embarrassing thing he did as a teenager.”
Zac efron’s commitment to always speaking highly of high school musical and not treating it as some embarrassing thing he did as a teenager is so charming to me
— alex 💭 ⁷ (@nothnghppens) July 2, 2024
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