Why We Keep Loving Zac Efron, Even When It's Hard - Vanity Fair
Zac Efron’s career path is inscrutable. From the mid-aughts Disney musicals that first endeared him to millions of tween girls worldwide, to torpid indies set in Florida swamps, to would-be prestige pictures , to inane ensemble rom-coms , to frat-bro bait, Efron’s IMDB profile... As a human, a brand, a Hollywood actor, a fantasy receptacle, Zac Efron seems to have no real plan, or no real confidence in executing one. But this tangible fear, this raw insecurity, is what endears us to Efron: he’s a lost little boy who just wants to be loved, and who’ll do anything—including, but not limited to, letting Nicole Kidman pee on him—to find that love. What this means, ultimately, is that we’ll give Efron infinite chances to figure it out. Zac began his career a blank slate—a bland, sexless, modern-day castrato—onto which 13-year-old girls projected their G-rated fantasies. The mid-aughts weren’t just the Last Great Years of Wild Spending in America, they were Zac’s blissfully. Source: www.vanityfair.com
