Inspiration #5

I almost don't want to write this.

Just for the fact that it feels like I'm writing bullshit. I've picked Zac Efron, therefore it must be about his looks. If I say anything else, I'm clutching at straws. Even though that's not the case, picking someone like Zac will always invoke that conclusion. Pretty boys don't belong in 'inspirational actors' lists.

And yet. Yet that's inherently the point of me picking Zac. It's like he's aware of just how attractive he is, and how short-lived that attractiveness may be, and therefore he's attempting to breach the expectations of the pretty-boy concept.

I don't think he's done as well with his film choices as Jake Gyllenhaal. I mean, the High School Musical craze alone brings down the tenor of his other work choices (but I still like them. Musicals, you know) but Hairspray was more than a sugary musical, it raises serious points about the Negro movement of the 1960's and the neccesity of equality. 17 again was fluff, sure, but he played it well, he did his research about Matthew Perry's quirks (and really, due to screen time, shouldn't it have been the other way around? Especially as Matthew's supposed to be the veteran actor ... kudos to Zac) and it was in the expressions he carried around Leslie Mann that made his character convincing. He does humour well, he's got great scope for timing and delivery. I'm watching Me And Orson Welles right now, and same again with the timing and delivery. His accent isn't quite what I imagined for Richard but otherwise ... spot on. It's just a shame they've cut most of his interactions with his friends, because that's what gives you the sense of Richard's urgency to be somebody in Theatre.

Anyway. I can see myself watching his films in years to come, regardless of his looks. His acting's all in his eyes, and that's all he needs. But who knows, he may do a Dick Van Dyke and just always be singing and dancing in whatever roles he picks (please, Zac, though you'll never read this ... never be Dick Van Dyke).

He seems likeable enough out of work too, he hikes and goes climbing, and skateboards and ... he's the epitome of a character in a Lauren Henderson book I have called 'My Lurid Past', this celebrity chef who can't stay still for two seconds, is young and impressionable and has talent for miles ... I admire that energy. I need some of it, lol. But enjoy it while it lasts Zac ...

Thanks for disregarding my entire opinion and sticking with the first argument, by the way. Yes Zac is a hot piece of ass. Damn!