Zac Efron explains to Details Mag why he’s not “bathing in p-ssy”

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Okay, you bitches need to help a girl out, because I am now totally hot for Zac Efron. I just poured over every word of his truly interesting Details cover profile (for the September issue), and I went through his photo shoot, and I’m kind of in love with him. He seems… sweet. Like a really nice kid. But unlike someone like Taylor Lautner, Zac’s niceness doesn’t seem like the product of being really young and unexposed to the world. Zac’s niceness just seems like something very natural, like he wouldn’t even think to be cruel or anything. He seems to know his own mind too! When the interviewer asks him about dating Vanessa Hudgens and why Zac isn’t out there, “bathing in p-ussy.” Zac’s answer is pretty awesome: “Yeah, everyone tells me that. I think a lot of guys would enjoy that. But I’m not really like that. Believe me. I rack my brain thinking, ‘Why am I not out there playing the field?’ One of my buddies was like, ‘You have no idea what’s going on right now. You’re peaking on Ecstasy and you’re watching TV.’ But it’s not in my heart.” He also talks about the gay rumors! Oh, Zac. I heart you.

On getting a horrible case of poison oak: “I went backpacking over Memorial Day weekend and I just got the worst poison oak, bro,” he says. “It was my first time getting it. Dude, it’s, like, everywhere. Everywhere. I can’t even begin to show you, ’cause you’ll get so grossed out. I look like a zombie from Dawn of the Dead.” Coaxing commences; negotiations occur. “Okay, I’ll show you my back, but the front’s pretty gross, man,” he says, then lifts his shirt. Above the bunched-up waistband of his underwear (boxers, Hanes, blue plaid), half of his back has been taken over by a crust resembling swollen cornflakes. “This spot just popped up this morning. Don’t touch it!” Efron is under the erroneous impression that anyone who touches him will catch his cooties—and maybe even develop a taste for brains.

Efron is not cool: Zac Efron is not cool, and this pronouncement is neither an insult nor a revelation to him. His lack of cool has nothing to do with the fact that, as a preadolescent, he lived for community theater or that he tried to get away with wearing a fedora to school at 15. Cool is effortlessness. Efron is all effort.

Efron is the Anti-Shia LaBeouf: Hollywood, like everything else, is just an extension of high school, with the burnouts and the jocks coexisting uneasily. Burnout Sean Penn drinks and smokes too much and will always be cooler than jock Tom Cruise, whom one imagines doing lots of crunches and high-fives. Same with Shia LaBeouf and Zac Efron. LaBeouf seems to give not one shit. He disses Spielberg and flips pickups and just gets bigger; Efron makes appearances at Bar Mitzvahs as favors to industry friends. “I’m so jealous of that,” Efron says of LaBeouf, whom he doesn’t know personally. “Yeah, that’s awesome to not give a sh-t. And Shia still pulls it off. That’s so cool. It’s just awesome. It just comes easy to some people.”

On Tom Cruise: Hollywood’s upperclassmen have shown how they feel about this freshman. Penn, upon meeting Efron, reportedly said exactly two words to him: Go skydiving. But 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 sh-t, the fact that he cared at all. No one else did that.”

On backing out of Footloose: “All the things I loved about Footloose I couldn’t find in the project,” he says. “They just weren’t there. I couldn’t see myself doing it.”

On letting water run on his poison-oak infected skin: “Oh…my…God,” Efron says with a gasp. “It’s like the best…orgasm…ever! And I just keep coming!”

On Vanessa Hudgens and why he‘s not “bathing in p-ssy”: Here in the bathroom, the topic of other bathrooms comes up, specifically the Japanese one at the famous Los Angeles sushi place Matsuhisa, which has a bidet-like contraption that will essentially shampoo your anus. “Yeah, Vanessa has one of those,” he says, speaking for the first time of his girlfriend of five years, High School Musical costar Vanessa Hudgens, who had dropped him off tonight. By now the Lakers are well on their way to winning the game and the bottle of Cab is gone, not more than a quarter of it consumed by Efron himself, which may explain the coarse phrasing of my suggestion that now might be the time for him to immerse himself in the company of more than one lady friend. “Bathe in p-ssy?” he repeats. “Yeah, everyone tells me that. I think a lot of guys would enjoy that. But I’m not really like that.” I point out that he does not know if he would enjoy this or not, since he has never been famous and single. “Believe me,” he says. “I rack my brain thinking, ‘Why am I not out there playing the field?’ One of my buddies was like, ‘You have no idea what’s going on right now. You’re peaking on Ecstasy and you’re watching TV.’ But it’s not in my heart.”

On the gay rumors and the rumor that Vanessa is his beard: “That’s just f-cking insane,” he says. “I’ve never even heard of that happening. I don’t even know who I would have been around who would have thought that was even a good idea. It would have been so much easier to call it off a long time ago.” Efron sees it as just wishful thinking by an avaricious gossip industry. “They want you to believe it, and they hope they’ll influence you to break up by making you seem insane for being in it. And then you’ll play the field, and then they can write about you a sh-tload, make shit up, and speculate about everything. Right now they know exactly what’s going on and it’s not very interesting and there’s no money to be made on it. It’s exactly how it should be. It’s real.”

[From Details Magazine]

Isn’t my new boyfriend funny? Isn’t he sweet? Doesn’t he have pretty eyes? Sigh… yes, he’s not Gerard Butler, but he’s got potential. Serious potential. Oh, and I think Tom Cruise was hitting on him, right? I mean, Tom could have just been trying to be generous to a young, up-and-coming star, but it also seems like it was a date, right?

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  1. denise says:

    He seems like a modest young man and such a cutie to boot.

  2. Katie says:

    Yeah, I think he’s beautiful….I have never seen anything he’s been in but man can he take a good picture.

  3. Janeth says:

    He’s GAY! I love Shia now that’s one sexy guy. Yummy!

    • Alain Delon says:

      @Janeth,
      Girl, Shia needs to put some relaxer in his hair to try to straighten it or something. Either that or get a full-on Jerry Curl.

  4. Sophie says:

    He’s still too much of a pretty boy for me, but I’ll give him a chance! That was a good interview.

  5. mimi says:

    Actually, i think there are alot of monogamous men out there..but like he said- they’re “boring” and don’t get any attention. Love him .

  6. guesty says:

    @katie…he is picture-licious!

  7. Miss Bitch says:

    From recent stories I’ve read, the Scientologists are starting to panic because Tom’s star is flaming out, and Travolta’s basically done too, so they need to become more aggressive in recruiting a new generation of Xenu zombies in Hollywood.

    While I don’t rule out that Tom was coming on to him, what I really think might have been happening is that Tom wants to pull him in on his “religious” Ponzi scheme.

  8. Kitten says:

    He’s hot and he seems like a sweetheart. That Charlie St Cloud movie looks god-awful but I heard he turns out a solid performance. You can have GB and his moob-y mullet, Kaiser. I’ll tale Efron and his zen-garden haircut and dreamy eyes.

  9. buckley says:

    I’m with you Kaiser. At first I didn’t like him much, but now I think he’s not only gorgeous, but a good actor with a good head on his shoulders, and a lot of potential.

  10. Mrs Odie 2 says:

    This is not a straight man. If he were straight, Sean Penn would’ve taken him skydiving. In fact, I think “riding motorcycles with Tom Cruise” is an excellent new euphemism for “gay.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  11. sarah says:

    He’s obviously attractive but I think he is maybe too pretty for me.Aside from that he seems like he mantains a pretty low profile and is stable so good for him 🙂

  12. LindyLou says:

    He’s just way too pretty to be straight…I’m not saying he’s gay but most of the time – when a guy is that pretty – he prefers other beautiful boys. Hanging out with Tom Cruise won’t help the gay rumours either!!!

  13. k says:

    wasn’t he seen leaving a strip club after unloading a boatload of cash there?

  14. Moreaces says:

    Very nice interview, and yepper, he is very pretty

  15. hater from siloam springs says:

    He’s going to be flat-out awesome after puberty sets in.

  16. Sigh. says:

    Kaiser,

    Think of yourself as a woman with complex needs. He’s non-threatening and pretty and sometimes you want to end the night with a peck on the cheek (Efron), and sometimes you want a smack on the ass (Butler). Don’t worry, you know you’ll always love The Butler, even at his manbearpig mullet-maned moobiest.

    You’ll be back to The Butler.
    No one recovers from The Butler.
    No one.

    HA!

  17. ch says:

    i think here we have long distance running star material
    don´t you think its getting difficult to find young people that have star potencial?
    if he could just get rid of those haircuts and glue some hair in his chest…

  18. Iris says:

    I’m not into pretty boys, but after reading his answer to why he’s not drowning in pussy, I WANT HIM. He’d be the perfect boyfriend. Damn you, Vanessa Hudgens.

  19. Iris says:

    But he loses boyfriend points for going to strip clubs.

  20. buckley says:

    Vanessa is indeed lucky. I find her looks kinda cheap.

  21. aenflex says:

    Cruise trying to recruit some young Scientology blood, is all.

  22. TQB says:

    It’s irritating that a man can be deemed “too pretty” to be straight. Is the inverse true, that one could be too ugly/manly to be gay?

    Oh and by all means, ye followers of the Hollywood machine, deem a man gay because he’s perfectly happy sleeping with his hot little actress girlfriend, and a little afraid to go sky diving with the frequently violent Sean Penn.

    You can’t rag on Tiki for being a manwhore and turn around and call a nice guy gay.

  23. PrettyTarheel says:

    He touched my heart when I first read this article about his willingness to help someone else, without a photo op, or it being planned by his publicist:
    http://www.laineygossip.com/Zac_Efron_shows_kindness_to_youth_at_Covenant_House_Vancouver_.aspx?CatID=0&CelID=20069

    I managed to look past the fact that he’s prettier than I am after that article, and I’m sort of becoming a fan.

  24. TQB says:

    @Iris – see if you can find his quote on going to the strip club, it was hilarious – something about expecting it to be all shiny and nice and clean and being rather grossed out by the reality.

  25. bizzy says:

    Okay, you bitches need to help a girl out, because I am now totally hot for Zac Efron.

    ok you, get a grip. go cruise for pictures of sean bean in ‘sharpe’, and gerard butler in a mess. the only time it’s not depressing to wake up with someone prettier than you is when you’re a lesbian.

  26. Brittney says:

    “..and that’s him! He’s really doing that!”

    That quote was verbatim Jon Voight re: Angelina Jolie. I guess it isn’t so weird that she took over one of Cruise’s roles.

  27. lucy2 says:

    LOL, I was thinking the same thing, Mrs. Odie! I bet over the years Tom has offered a lot of young, pretty guys the chance to “ride his motorcycle”!
    Right now Zac’s publicist, who I’m sure is well aware of the gay rumors (and probably encouraged the strip club visit!), is like oh crap, did he really just say that to a magazine!?!

    He is very good looking, but still just a little too boyish still.
    I bet his girlfriend is thrilled to hear he’s “racking his brain, wondering why he’s not out playing the field”. Ouch.

  28. cookie says:

    “Vanessa is indeed lucky. I find her looks kinda cheap”. Really Buckley? I think she has very beautiful, exotic looks. He dotes on her.

  29. loverish says:

    I’m in love with this kid. He’s just beautiful. Trust me, he’s the up and coming next Brad Pitt.

  30. xxodettexx says:

    Dear ladies and gents of this messageboard:

    STAY AWAY FROM MY FUTURE HUSBAND!

    thanks, xoxo

    odette

    🙂

  31. Feebee says:

    I think a few years on his face will do wonders for his looks. If he plays his career wisely picking the right roles he’ll have longevity.

    It’s so boring to suggest just because he’s ‘pretty’ that he’s gay. The same bores insinuate the opposite is true for women.

  32. GatsbyGal says:

    He still looks a little too jailbait-y for me even though I know he’s only a few years younger than me. When he hits maybe 27, 28…mmm.

  33. Riley says:

    I would love to see Tom Cruise teaching him how “to ride motorcycles”:
    Tom: “Ok, hop on the back and I will show you. Wrap your arms tight around my stomach. Hold on. You’re hot. I mean, it is kind of getting muggy out here. Let me take off my shirt. That’s better. I may burn, Zac. Do you mind rubbing my hairless chest with some of that SPF 50. Remember to put a little extra on nipples. Oh, that feels good doesn’t it? Ok, time to ride. Now hop on the back and put your arms tight around my waist. Did you ever see my movie Top Gun? Let’s pretend for a moment you are Kelly McGillis’s character. She’s a lesbian now anyways so it is probably about the same…”

  34. eja102 says:

    **sigh**

    that is all.

  35. Iris says:

    @TQB Hahaha! He’s good in my book once again. (Good meaning perfect of course.)

  36. H says:

    I was flipping channels the other night and watched 17 Again and I really enjoyed his preformance.

  37. I Choose Me says:

    Really handsome kid, amazing blue eyes. The only time I got a tingle for him though was in that trailer for his new movie where he he’s touching and sniffing the girl’s hair and then he nuzzles her neck and she turns around and they kiss. He’s got potential acting wise, he was really good in 17 again. I look forward to seeing if he’s got any range. And yeah, I so get the vibe that Tom was hitting on the ingenue. 😀

  38. Vee says:

    Lovely kid, I hope he stays that way.

  39. Cam says:

    I’ve always said he was different, of course everyone was like “neh, he’s stupid, talentless and gay”.

    He seems sweet, honest, MODEST, and he’s HOT, hey I want one of those!. Vanessa is SO lucky.

  40. Jeri says:

    I first saw him in Summerland (I think that was the name of the show). It was about 3 kids who went to live with their Aunt in a cool beachfront house. He was a friend of the daughter. I think he got his nose trimmed since then but he looked much the same, just not quite as perfect.

  41. GC says:

    He is definitely growing on me, too! I always thought he was way too pretty, but the personality is getting to be quite a turn on.

    And #7, Miss Bitch – I think you are exactly right – Tom was most probably trying to recruit for his cult.

  42. Ycnan says:

    tom cruise cannot do anything right in your eyes. wow. everyone who knows him says he is the nicest guy. he makes good movies. who cares if he is or is not gay?

  43. Ycnan says:

    tom cruise cannot do anything right in your eyes. wow. everyone who knows him says he is the nicest guy. he makes good movies. who cares if he is or is not gay?

  44. Truthzbetta says:

    He is pretty awesome. When someone has it all– looks, money, career, fame, options– who they really are comes out. At a young age he is really together.

    All good, Zac. May the force stay with you, you awesome kid.

  45. Shawna says:

    Eh, it just seems like a “date” with Tom Cruise because our culture automatically sexualizes everything. It’s our main fount of imagery and our favorite point of comparison. Just means we’re unimaginative and guys do need to make up terms like “bromance” to figure out what it means to be friends with someone you aren’t attracted to.

    I like how he recognizes a boring dating situation with Hudgens isn’t a money-maker, and that provides this gossip vacuum where the craziest ideas come up just in hopes of creating copy. Good for him for seeing through it.

  46. gretchen says:

    hey…question- why do we think tom cruise is gay?
    seriously missed the origin of that.

    @LindyLou
    pretty boys dont equal gay re: zac…i have gorgeous boys in my family and believe me they are not gay.
    @ FeeBee
    however i think it’s sometimes easier to tell who is lesbian, lest we forget it is in the genes!!

  47. Kate says:

    Ahhhh, he’s adorable!

    Not my type; as there is a serious lack of tattoos, guitar strapped to the pelvis, and gigantic muscles, but adorable none the less!

    I wouldn’t mind corrupting his little ass for an evening though; smother him in BBQ sauce and turn him like a rib!

  48. oduroyal says:

    Cute guy…not sure if I believe him on everything though

  49. Eileen says:

    Yeah uhhh that’s cool! Get on that!! ::running over and snatching Gerry from Kaiser’s grasp and taking off::

  50. Ashryn97015 says:

    Personally, I think he’d look great with a little scruff on his face. Especially in that first picture. He seems like a stable, humble kid, and I can respect that. As far as his acting goes, I haven’t watched any movies/tv shows yet with him in them…Guess it’s time I caught up with it LOL! Hope he get’s over the poison oak quickly! That stuff is NO fun

  51. Stephy2485 says:

    He’s like a younger, better Jared Leto.

  52. dovesgate says:

    He’s starting to look like a man instead of a boy. When he gets a couple more years on him… yummmm.

  53. Mrs Odie 2 says:

    Since he was just caught in a strip club, he was lying about the monogamy/being a great boyfriend thing. Or it was a set up to enhance his manly image. Maybe Zach is heterosexual. But he’s very “pretty.” I like men to look like men, and I agree that Tom probably offered him a “free personality test” and a ride on the “E meter” too.

    And I think Tom Cruise is incredibly talented. I just think he’s like Truman and Scientology is “The Truman Show.” If he knew the extent of the crazy, he’d want nothing to do with it.

  54. lola lola says:

    He’s so gay

  55. Rebecca says:

    The description of his underwear made me laugh. ‘Cause we had to know that, right? Not that I mind…

  56. Kiska says:

    Neat kid.

  57. lrm says:

    since I watched HSM 1 and 2 with my child…I already knew he was a decent actor-and cute, but of course just a wee one…
    But after seeing him in ’17 again’ with matthew perry [it’s good!!!],about a zillion times now…I still get a kick out of ZE-he’s funny, charming and cute, along with pretty.

    And, above all, he’s a decent actor-a rarity!!!

  58. nel says:

    alright yeh id hit it just for the sake of it and see what its all about.

    and OMG tommy girl has the worst pick up lines!

    MK at dlisted told the best story 😛

    and @Riley, your short fanfiction had me cracking up 😛

  59. Shy says:

    Well… For years they (gossip sites) were all laughing and calling Ricky Martin gay. And i didn’t believe it for a long time. He didn’t seem like he was gay to me. And there you go. One day Ricky came out. So i kind of believe now when they laugh and call Zac Efron and Hayden Christensen gays.

    It’s a nice photo shoot. But Zac needs to do something. He can be the prettiest boy in the world but his momentum is fading away. When Twilight came out and then Bieber boy – all the teens abandoned Zac. And big flop of Charlie St. Cloud showed that he didn’t get any adult audience.

    If he wants to be here in 5 years then he has to choose some roles where he will not be standing pretty as hell with sad eyes for the whole movie. It’s not so easy to grow up to mature audience as Zac thought. In his eyes Charlie St. Cloud was supposed to become his break away from teen fame. Because you know it’s like a drama. But he ended up with critics laughing at him and public ignored the movie.

    For the start i think he should beg for some sidekick role in some big blockbuster movie. The one with 100 million budget. Like there were rumors that he will be in Pirates movie. He and his agent should beg producers for supporting role in some blockbuster like that.

  60. canadianchick says:

    Invited him for a motorcycle “ride” and Scientology pre-recruiting session all in one afternoon-Tom was being efficient.(Big Red and the wrestling outfit lingering in the back of Tom’s mind)

    Hilarious thread, thanks for the giggles. Don’t care if this guy is gay or straight, hope his monogamy lasts.

  61. Tess says:

    Well but his poses are meant to appeal to gays.

    Methinks the boy plays a dangerous game.

    Unless he really is gay.

    Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  62. di butler says:

    Cruise is recruiting. He has been doing it for 20+ yrs. There are tons of old stories of him hanging out with up and coming young stars, trying to get new members. Nothing new.

  63. serena says:

    I swear I hated Zac Efron and those high school musical’s movies. But.. since he changed his look I so adore him. God, he’s so sexy like this!

  64. Kolby says:

    I hate you, Kaiser, for making me hot for this kid. Damnit!

  65. Kolby says:

    Also, what did he mean by “peaking on Ecstacy”? Is he saying that he pops X and watches TV instead of going out and pulling birds? Or what?

  66. fyn says:

    I love his boots, he has a nice face, but I really love his boots and they’re something I could have. I’m a realist.

  67. lolo says:

    If he’s tall he’s the prettiest of them all! Is he tall?!

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