Friday November 20, 2009

ZAC Efron says he accepted his role in new film Me and Orson Wells because he wanted to try something “fresh”.

The actor — who shot to fame playing clean-cut Troy Bolton in Disney’s popular High School Musical movie franchise — admits he was looking for something a bit “riskier” when took the part.

“I was looking for that opportunity, something fresh,” Zac said, insisting he wasn’t concerned his large, mostly teen fan base, wouldn’t have heard of Orson Welles.

“Perhaps the fans that don’t know about Orson maybe have more of an opinion now when they study this stuff at school… some insight into the early life of this American icon,” he said.

Zac also revealed how is fans managed to track him down while he was filming on the Isle of Man — a small island located in the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland.

“I was looking forward to that seclusion,” he said. “From what I heard it was a pretty quiet place and there weren’t a lot of people there. But they found it. But I felt pretty welcome.”

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