• ‘High School Musical’ star Zac Efron came close to missing out.
• Director Keith Thomas said it happened because of his background as a teen heartthrob.

After seeing Zac Efron as the serial murderer Ted Bundy in the 2019 film ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile,’ Keith changed his opinion.

In an interview Director Keith Thomas said, “As for Zac … immediately I thought of the teen idol thing, though I’d seen him in the Ted Bundy film and some other roles.”

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Keith continued, “But when I first met with him … you know, he’s in his mid-30s, and was very keen to do something different; to do a genre he’d never been in before; and to portray a father.”

Zac Efron recently said that he was “drastically under-prepared”  for his role as a father in the movie. he explained, “I didn’t think about it all that much. And then when we started filming the movie, I had a two-week quarantine … and when I got out of quarantine, we started filming that Monday, so it was a pretty quick intro to the film, and all of a sudden I had this daughter in front of me.”

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Zac added, We had a pretty heavy dad-daughter scene right off the bat, and I realised I was drastically under-prepared for this part. I didn’t know what I was doing.”

Following the completion of the film, the actor stated that he will not be having children in the near future. Added Zac Efron, “I think that was a healthy dose to put me off for as long as necessary. I have a little bit more growing to do, probably.”