Zac Efronis sharing his latest movie with the world.
The 34-year-old actor celebrated the premiere of his new comedyThe Greatest Beer Run Everat theToronto International Film FestivalTuesday, greeting fans and signing autographs outside Roy Thomson Hall. Efron also posed with cast and crew members, including director Peter Farrelly.
In the movie, Efron stars as real-life local hero Chickie Donohue, who in 1967 decided on a whim to bring beer from his New York neighborhood to his friends serving in the Vietnam War.
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“It’s one of those unbelievable real-life scenarios you just can’t believe a guy got himself into,” Efron said.
He continued, “It’s a really beautiful story about human nature, love … it’s about war and a really difficult time, but it has a great sense of humor about it and I think it’s fantastic.”
Farrelly recently told PEOPLE he relished the chance to work with Efron, who he says “was at a very interesting place in his career.”
“He said, ‘I really want to do something different.’ And what he does here, in my eyes, is that,” said the director.
He continued, “Zac’s the most open actor I’ve ever worked with. A lot of times you do a scene, you go up to the actor afterwards and you’re giving him notes but you can see they’re in their own head, like running it through, figuring it out themselves. They’re really not listening to you. Zac’s the opposite.”
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Efron recently opened up about a challenge he’s dealing with of late: agoraphobia. TheBaywatchalum opened up about his battle with the anxiety disorder that involves the fear of going into crowded spaces, or sometimes leaving one’s home during his October 2022Men’s Healthcover interview.
“I just don’t go out,” he told the magazine. “People in large groups, it triggers my agoraphobia.”
source: people.com
