Zac Efron Sees The Light

Zac Efron gets blinded by the flash of a camera as he arrives at LAX airport in Los Angeles on Tuesday night (July 27).

The 22-year-old Charlie St. Cloud actor chatted with Movieline about his upcoming projects, his friendship with director Burr Steers and making the cover of People shirtless. Check it:

On reading along with Burr: “I read this Meisner book [he] gave me after 17 Again that just sat on my coffee table forever, with this picture of an old-looking dude with gray hair and glasses on the cover. [Laughs] It’s a hard one to turn the first page, but I just sat and down and committed that I was going to read it all, and then I couldn’t put it down as soon as I started it. I read the whole thing in about three days. It’s just fascinating, and it’s all those little things that I wouldn’t have gotten into if it weren’t for Burr.”

On his upcoming thriller Snabba Cash: “I see a way into that character that I could believe myself in, and that’s few and far between these days. I read scripts, and people tell me, ‘Matt Damon was going to do this project.’ And I’m like, ‘Of course Matt Damon was going to do that project, it’s f**kin’ crazy! I can’t do that.’”

On shirtless photos making the cover of People: “It was like, what am I going to do: go to Hawaii and not go to the beach and say for the rest of my life that I didn’t do it because [the paparazzi] were there, or am I just going to brave it, go out, and let all that happen?…It’s not the worst thing in the world. And you know, aside from that, I had this amazing trip with my brother.”

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