'Seventeen Again' Promo Shots, Zac Efron Chats About First 'Adult' Role

By Tim on March 20, 2008 2:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Here are new promo shots from Zac Efron's new film 'Seventeen Again' courtesy of Zefron. Zac chatted in-depth about his first 'adult' role with New Line:

"I could just go off and play a kid anywhere. The idea that drew me to this role was that it’s a different thing playing a 37-year-old-guy. That’s an area I have no experience in. I’ve had a first kiss, I’ve had awkward dates, I’ve had fights with my parents – all that kid drama. But one thing I have not done is gotten in a fight with my daughter, you know? So having nothing to go on for a lot of things was scary. That was..

..really exciting to me. I play Mike O’Donnell. Mike is not thrilled with the way his life has turned out. In the beginning he had all these opportunities, so many ways he could take his life, but in one day during high school that’s all stripped from him. So he wishes he could go back to that day in his life where everything came crashing down. He wants to go re-live that and maybe play it differently. The idea of being able to go back to high school with the knowledge that you have as a 37-year-old, that excited me from day one."

On the challenges of going back to high school:

"The idea of going back to high school as an adult is incredible.. until you actually get there! It’s like this crazy twilight zone of adolescent insecurities and people trying to grow up and figure out what they want to do with their lives. It’s crazy in the movie. Nothing comes out right when you’re a teenager. You say the wrong thing. You just do. It’s a part of life. It’s a part of growing up.One of the funny parts of this movie is that every year kids change, youth culture is changing all the time. Even now, when I go back to a high school campus, it really is like a frighteningly new place."