The Disney alum shares his most embarrassing reminiscence on-set.
Zac Efron is opening up about one in every of his most memorable experiences as an actor — his first on-screen lip lock.
The 36-year-old was featured on Elle‘s TikTok on Wednesday, July 3, the place he was interviewed by his A Household Affair co-star, Joey King.
King requested Efron, “What’s your most embarrassing on-set story?”
“I used to be actual younger. It was my first kissing scene,” Efron defined. “It was on a present referred to as Summerland and I didn’t understand that consuming fish proper earlier than that was in all probability not a good suggestion. And I kissed my costar and he or she went, ‘Did you eat fish for lunch?’ And all people laughed. I’m scarred for all times.”
Previous to rising to teen stardom for his iconic function as Troy Bolton in Excessive Faculty Musical, Efron was a part of the primary forged in The WB’s Summerland TV sequence which starred Lori Loughlin, Jesse McCartney, Merrin Dungey and fellow Disney alum Kay Panabaker, who was on the fallacious finish of his fishy story.
King, 24, additionally agreed that the second was “embarrassing.”
Efron and King play a boss-and-assistant duo, Chris Cole and Zara respectively, within the 2024 Netflix romcom. A Household Affair additionally stars Nicole Kidman, Kathy Bates, Liza Koshy, and Sherry Cola.