Actor
Zac Efron reveals Hollywood star and pays tribute to Matthew Perry
Film director Sean Durkin (lr), Zac Efron and actor Jeremy Allen White attend the ceremony. photo
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Zac Efron became famous as a teenager in the film series “High School Musical,” and now he’s getting his own star on the “Walk of Fame.” At the ceremony he remembers a deceased colleague.
Loud cheers on Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame”: the former teen heartthrob appeared in front of hundreds of fans Zac Efron (36) unveils his star on the famous sidewalk. Efron brought his parents and brother to the ceremony. In a flash of photographers’ flashlights, the California native fell to the ground on the plaque, beaming.
Efron, who became known as a teenager through the Disney film series “High School Musical”, remembered in his speech his colleague Matthew Perry, who died in October at the age of 54. When they were filming the comedy “17 Again – Back to High School” (2009), Perry was “so kind and generous” towards him, said Efron. That motivated him a lot at the time and advanced his career. He wanted to thank Perry for that.
As a guest speaker, Miles Teller (36, “Whiplash”) raved about Efron’s charisma as a film star, his niceness and conscientiousness. They co-starred in the buddy comedy “Single Forever?” (2014). He has been acting, singing and dancing for as long as he can remember. But never in his “wildest dreams” could he have imagined standing here, said Efron, visibly moved.
Efron’s film “The Iron Claw” will be in theaters in mid-December. The fact-based family drama revolves around four US brothers who made their careers as professional wrestlers in the 80s.
He celebrated his breakthrough with his role as young basketball star Troy Bolton in the television musical “High School Musical” (2006) alongside Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale. He also starred in two sequels. After comedies like “Bad Neighbors,” “Dirty Grandpa” or “Baywatch,” Efron appeared in films like “Greatest Showman,” “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” and “The Greatest Beer Run Ever.”