Zac Effron is sought after, plays naive
Pretty boys always have to deal with people wanting things from them (even if it’s just their company, they are after all, nice to look at). The really, really, pretty ones also need to always watch out for invites from powerful people who might have alterior motives.
Be it Bryan Singer chasing down Zac with one of his minions to “come say hi”, during Zac’s interview which is in the new issue of Details Magazine , or this interesting (and slightly creepy) story Zac gave about meeting Tom Cruise.
Cruise recently flagged Efron down in the lobby of CAA, “You ride motorcycles?” Cruise asked him. Alas, he didn’t. “You wanna learn how?” Cruise invited him out to his house, taught him how a motorcycle engine works, showed him the hangar with his dozens of pristine bikes–including the Triumphs he rode in the Mission: Impossible movies. Efron was allowed to ride a pedigree-less dirt bike. “He made so many great movies,” Efron says of Cruise. “I get the feeling that he works really, really hard. It didn’t come from swagger with him. It came from dedication, hard work. You see it in the way he physicalizes everything. You watch The Last Samurai and that’s him! He’s really doing that.” I ask Efron why he supposes Cruise bothered reaching out to him. “I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t even want to know. It’s just so cool that he gave a shit, the fact that he cared at all. No one else did that.”
Oh, come on! Wrap that pretty little head of yours around why a man twice your age would want to hang out with you.
Actually, I think Tom might have been scoping out a prospective new follower of Xenu with Zac and was trying to get a feel for him (as opposed to just coping one). Still, there’s a bit of an ick factor here, although Zac is too polite and smart to mention it.
I’m going to have to remember that line “You ride Motorcycles? You wanna learn how?” when trying to land a twink half my age, clearly it works.

