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High School Musical 3- Interview with Zac Efron
Posted by adminMovies Online posted a great, in-depth Q & A with Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu and other cast members about High School Musical 3 and a clip is provided below. There is also a link to the rest of the article at the bottom of the page.
I am looking forward to this and who know what they may have in mind for this cast after this is over? Maybe College Musical- Freshman Year? Before you read this, take a look at Zac on Regis and Kelly this AM (Oct 22) talking about the movie (courtesy of You Tube)
Zac Efron Interview, High School Musical 3
Posted By: Sheila Roberts / Source
MoviesOnline caught up with Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu, Matt Prokop, Jemma McKenzie-Brown, Justin Martin, director Kenny Ortega, and producer Bill Borden at the Los Angeles press day for their new film, “High School Musical 3: Senior Year.”
Disney’s High School Musical phenomenon leaps onto the big screen in “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” in which the world’s favorite high school students (Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman) hit senior year. Amidst a basketball championship, prom and a big spring musical featuring all of the Wildcats, Troy (Efron) and Gabriella (Hudgens) vow to make every moment last as their lifelong college dreams put the future of their relationship in question. A crew of sophomore Wildcats (Matt Prokop, Justin Martin, Jemma McKenzie-Brown) joins in the fun as the film’s incredible new music and exciting dance numbers take maximum advantage of the big screen.
Here’s what the director, producer and cast had to tell us:
MoviesOnline: THIS MUSICAL TRILOGY HAS BEEN SUCH A PHENOMENON, I’VE BEEN WONDERING HOW YOU PLAN TO TRANSITION INTO MORE ADULT ROLES.
CORBIN BLEU: It’s all about range. We as artists, we’re never satisfied. So you’ve got to always continue to stretch yourself. I’m focusing on getting some more in-depth roles. It would be nice to truly challenge myself, stretch a little bit more. I’m also interested in just expanding into other art forms as well. I’m working on music, I’m into the studio working on my second album, and I’m also producing. I produced a film with my father called “Free Style” which is about motocross and will be out in January in theatres.
ZAC EFRON: Before “High School Musical 3” I filmed a movie called “17 Again”, playing a 37-year-old guy in a 17-year-old’s body. That was interesting. And then right after that I filmed a movie called “Me And Orson Welles,” more of a drama, set in 1937, about the Mercury Theatre troupe putting on a production of Julius Caesar. So two different roles.
MoviesOnline: FOR ZAC, HOW WAS IT KNOWING YOU’D BETTER SAVOR THIS BECAUSE THIS WOULD BE THE LAST ONE, JUST LIKE IN HIGH SCHOOL. ALSO WILL YOU DO “FOOTLOOSE”?
ZAC EFRON: When we were filming “High School Musical,” we took every opportunity to kind of revel in the scenes and dances because we knew this would be the last time we were all together in this capacity, so we were soaking it up. And “Footloose” is coming together, actually. We’re trying to figure out the right way to do it, but yeah, it seems like it could happen.
MoviesOnline: WILL IT BE STARRING YOU?
ZAC EFRON: Yeah, I hope so.
MoviesOnline: WHAT WILL YOU MISS MOST?
ZAC EFRON: I don’t know if you can put it all into one specific memory. I think it’s just the environment. It’s been a very safe, creative place for us to work in the last three years. And it’s going to be pretty hard to leave that behind.
Photo Courtesy of People Magazine
MoviesOnline: TROY AND CHAD ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY WANT TO BE. WHAT ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU WERE KIDS?
ZAC EFRON: I had no idea I wanted to be an actor. I went through high school just like all the other guys. I didn’t really have any plans for my future. This was kind of my extra-curricular and my hobby, and I know various doors opened and I went through them and I ended up where I am today.
CORBIN BLEU: You know, it changes. When you’re a kid, you have grand ideas to become a lot of different things. It changed. I wanted to be a marine biologist. I wanted to be a plastic surgeon. Eventually it came down to two directions and it was pediatrician or an actor. Now I can at least play a doctor on TV. I grew up in it, and always knew I wanted the arts in my life. It was just whether it would be a full on career or not, and the time came that I had to make the decision, and I actually decided just to go with what I love doing.
MoviesOnline: KENNY, COULD YOU COMPARE THIS WITH THE PREVIOUS TWO FILMS? WILL THERE BE MORE?
KENNY ORTEGA: You know, we kind of did our best to do each film full-out. Zac says we didn’t leave anything on the dance floor but a pile of sweat. We never came into these movies thinking we were just making a little movie for television. We raised the bar on ourselves, we challenged ourselves every day, we set out to do something special that would some lasting power. I think for “High School Musical 3,” it was special for me in that — I went after “High School Musical 1” because I was hoping that if I do a good job here, maybe this might reveal the curtain on me again. It could be another shot to do a full-length feature motion picture. Little did I ever imagine that “High School Musical” would actually be that full-length motion picture. So for me, moving into “High School Musical 3” was like a real dream fulfilled, so it was just great fun imagining it, designing with it, playing with these guys, but we really kind of set it up the same way. We did have a little bit more money, but we had a lot more lighting and a lot more detail to sort of pay attention to. And we had a little bit more schedule, so we could think a little bigger. And of course we wanted our film to be recognizable. We wanted our audience to immediately recognize where they were and who they were with. We certainly didn’t want to throw the baby out, as they say. We wanted to go for a bigger design, but not lose ourselves in the process.
