We all love Zac Efron. The guy is an amazing actor, singer and a charmer. He is an incredible artist and an extremely disciplined person, which is why he had such a long life post his Disney days of High School Musical.

To be a great actor and be recognized by most people, you need a great launch pad and that is your ticket to everything, and that ticket for Zac Efron was his first ever Disney original movie, High School Musical.

Reflecting on the days of High School Musical and casting the actors, the legendary director Kenny Ortega says

“[Casting] is a process that I really enjoy, and the Disney Channel enables us to really take our time. I've always said I'm not only looking for actors that can sing and dance. I'm looking for partners. Young people that are gonna come, that have ideas, that are brave, that are courageous, that are generous to other actors and that aren't reliant on just me giving them guidance and direction but they come in with whole ideas. That's what I say is the continuity of the movie, High School Musical— that we landed incredible young partners that come to the day every day ready to play and it makes my life so much more fun and makes the space so much more creative.”

He continued “Honestly, we all believed [it]. We believe in all of the young people that we cast. We really take our time. We took months before we cast High School Musical and we looked endlessly and Zac was up against 600 guys for that role. Honestly, we didn't go out one weekend and find Zac and say Well, let's put our faith in him.' We put him through a real test. This guy had to come in and do it all. He had to work with all different kinds of other actors and actresses until the end of the day we all came together and said, This guy is magical. This guy has something really unique and really special and he can lead this group into this movie.' So yeah, I did have belief in him.”

So that's how Zac Efron won the role and stole our hearts with true dedication and determination.

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