If you're a teenage girl, studies show there's a 33 percent chance you've got a picture of Zac Efron up in your locker. All right, we made that up, but there's no denying that the 'High School Musical' star is one of the hottest teen actors on the planet right now -- and he's sure to attract a few adult fans, too, as heartthrob Link Larkin in the movie musical 'Hairspray' (July 20). But even with big projects like 'HSM 2' and 'Footloose' on the horizon, Zac proved to us in a recent AIM chat that he won't let success get in the way of what's important ... like steak and Chicken McNuggets.
ZacHairspray: hi patricia! It's zac
MoviefoneTricia: hey zac
MoviefoneTricia: how's it going?
ZacHairspray: everything's great! finishing up over here
MoviefoneTricia: cool -- ready for me then?
ZacHairspray: absoLUTELY
MoviefoneTricia: cool
MoviefoneTricia: so are you a big IMer, or is this your first time?
ZacHairspray: i've been AIMing for quite a while. keep in touch with my close friends this way. so convenient
MoviefoneTricia: oh, definitely
ZacHairspray: my typing is a lil rusty
ZacHairspray: sorry, im working on getting a new pc
MoviefoneTricia: oh, i see -- what's wrong with the one you've got?
ZacHairspray: it got OLD. and there was soda in the keyboard. the space bar didn't work
ZacHairspray: all my aims looked like "heyhowsitgoinimissulikecrazy"
MoviefoneTricia: hahaha
MoviefoneTricia: oh come on
MoviefoneTricia: that's just an excuse, i know you really talk like that
ZacHairspray: lol
MoviefoneTricia: ok, so the movie
MoviefoneTricia: when you started making hairspray, how familiar were you with the original musical and john waters' film?
ZacHairspray: i had seen the john waters film... but not for a VERY long time. and i fell in love with the broadway show just after my first hairspray audition.
MoviefoneTricia: so did you get to see it on broadway, with harvey fierstein et al?
ZacHairspray: i didn't see harvey, but the cast was equally brilliant. hilarious
MoviefoneTricia: definitely. loved the broadway show (and the movie, too!)
MoviefoneTricia: your character had an elvis thing going on, which was a little different than previous incarnations
MoviefoneTricia: was that your idea?
MoviefoneTricia: or the director's?
ZacHairspray: a lil of both
ZacHairspray: one of my favorite things about the sixties is the emergence of rock and roll. who better depicts that than the man, elvis?
MoviefoneTricia: so did you have to do special hip-thrusting training?
ZacHairspray: actually i did. that part of your body isn't meant to move. I'm convinced
MoviefoneTricia: haha
MoviefoneTricia: i seriously just laughed out loud
ZacHairspray: you would have laughed harder if you saw me practicing
MoviefoneTricia: in front of your mirror, at home at night?
ZacHairspray: embarrassingly enough... yeah haha
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ZacHairspray: hi patricia! It's zac
MoviefoneTricia: hey zac
MoviefoneTricia: how's it going?
ZacHairspray: everything's great! finishing up over here
MoviefoneTricia: cool -- ready for me then?
ZacHairspray: absoLUTELY
MoviefoneTricia: cool
MoviefoneTricia: so are you a big IMer, or is this your first time?
ZacHairspray: i've been AIMing for quite a while. keep in touch with my close friends this way. so convenient
MoviefoneTricia: oh, definitely
ZacHairspray: my typing is a lil rusty
ZacHairspray: sorry, im working on getting a new pc
MoviefoneTricia: oh, i see -- what's wrong with the one you've got?
ZacHairspray: it got OLD. and there was soda in the keyboard. the space bar didn't work
ZacHairspray: all my aims looked like "heyhowsitgoinimissulikecrazy"
MoviefoneTricia: hahaha
MoviefoneTricia: oh come on
MoviefoneTricia: that's just an excuse, i know you really talk like that
ZacHairspray: lol
MoviefoneTricia: ok, so the movie
MoviefoneTricia: when you started making hairspray, how familiar were you with the original musical and john waters' film?
ZacHairspray: i had seen the john waters film... but not for a VERY long time. and i fell in love with the broadway show just after my first hairspray audition.
MoviefoneTricia: so did you get to see it on broadway, with harvey fierstein et al?
ZacHairspray: i didn't see harvey, but the cast was equally brilliant. hilarious
MoviefoneTricia: definitely. loved the broadway show (and the movie, too!)
MoviefoneTricia: your character had an elvis thing going on, which was a little different than previous incarnations
MoviefoneTricia: was that your idea?
MoviefoneTricia: or the director's?
ZacHairspray: a lil of both
ZacHairspray: one of my favorite things about the sixties is the emergence of rock and roll. who better depicts that than the man, elvis?
MoviefoneTricia: so did you have to do special hip-thrusting training?
ZacHairspray: actually i did. that part of your body isn't meant to move. I'm convinced
MoviefoneTricia: haha
MoviefoneTricia: i seriously just laughed out loud
ZacHairspray: you would have laughed harder if you saw me practicing
MoviefoneTricia: in front of your mirror, at home at night?
ZacHairspray: embarrassingly enough... yeah haha
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