Zac Efron can be “honored” to play Matthew Perry in a biopic, and he recalled the wonderful expertise he had whereas engaged on the movie 17 Once more with the late actor.
“He was a mentor to me, and we made a very cool movie collectively,” the Best Showman star, 36, instructed Individuals on Wednesday, November 8. “I regarded as much as him. I realized comedic timing from that man. I imply, after we had been filming 17 Once more, it was so surreal for me to look throughout and have him be there, as a result of I’ve realized a lot from him, from his entire life.”
Efron performed a youthful model of Perry’s character, Mike O’Donnell, within the 2009 movie.
Perry beforehand talked about Efron by title to tackle the function whereas talking with leisure reporter Athenna Crosby, who was photographed eating with Buddies actor simply in the future earlier than his loss of life on October 28. The reporter stated Perry instructed her he “wished to make a film about his life and have a biopic made,” and he particularly “wished Zac Efron, who’s performed him already, to play him once more as a result of he stated he did such a great job.”
“I’m honored to listen to he was considering of me to play him,” Efron stated, including that he was “devastated” by the information of Perry’s loss of life. “We’ll see. I’d be honored to do it.”
Perry drowned in a jacuzzi at his Pacific Palisades house at age 54. He grew to become an icon in Hollywood due to his function as Chandler Bing on Buddies, which ran from 1994 to 2004.
His castmates, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer, launched a joint assertion mourning their costar and shut buddy two days after his loss of life on October 30.
“We’re all so totally devastated by the lack of Matthew. We had been extra than simply solid mates. We’re a household,” the group’s assertion learn. “There’s a lot to say, however proper now we’re going to take a second to grieve and course of this unfathomable loss. In time we’ll say extra, as and after we are ready. For now, our ideas and our love are with Matty’s household, his buddies, and everybody who beloved him world wide.”
The sitcom’s core six characters final reunited on display screen in 2021 for HBO Max’s Buddies: The Reunion particular. Along with Perry’s expertise starring within the beloved sitcom, he additionally scored roles in The Entire 9 Yards, Fools Rush In, Serving Sarah, Scrubs, and extra. He wrote a memoir about his experiences, together with his decades-long battle together with his addition, in his 2022 memoir, Buddies, Lovers, and the Large Horrible Factor.
