Zac Efron has teased that he would be willing to reprise his role as teen heartthrob Troy Bolton in Disney's High School Musical franchise if the opportunity presented itself.
Efron shot to stardom when the first High School Musical movie premiered on Disney Channel way back in 2006. Directed by Hocus Pocus' Kenny Ortega, the film proved to be an instant hit and returned for two more movies, with the third premiering in cinemas.
Ever since the third and final movie High School Musical: Senior Year premiered in 2008, fans have been calling for the cast to reprise their roles as the East High teens – well, now adults – one more time, and Efron has now given us HSM fans a small glimmer of hope that it could be possible.
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In a new interview with E! News, the Greatest Showman actor said that any opportunity to go back and work with the High School Musical team again would be "incredible".
"Of course, of course," he replied when asked if he'd be interested in a reboot. "Seriously, having the opportunity in any form to go back and work with that team would be so amazing.
"My heart is still there. That would be incredible. I hope it happens."
Efron's comments come after he previously shared that he wasn't exactly a fan of Troy, in part because it was the character who everyone still associated him with.
"I step back and look at myself and I still want to kick that guy's ass sometimes," he told Men's Fitness in 2016.
"Like, f**k that guy. He's done some kind of cool things with some cool people, he did that one thing that was funny, but I mean he's still just that f**king kid from High School Musical."
Recently, though, Efron appears to have embraced his HSM character again. Back in 2020, Efron reunited with his former High School Musical castmates for a virtual singalong of 'We're All in This Together', which saw Efron introduce his co-stars, including Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Vanessa Hudgens, Monique Coleman and Corbin Bleu and director Kenny Ortega.
The franchise has also been continued in a new Disney+ series called High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which has also featured the appearance of some of the film's original stars in cameo roles across its two seasons to date.
With a third season already confirmed and Corbin Bleu set to return to play himself, the opportunity for a Zac Efron cameo is very much there. After all: once a wildcat, always a wildcat.
Efron is next set to star in an adaptation of Stephen King's sci-fi novel Firestarter, in which he will be playing the father of a young girl (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), who mysteriously gains the power to set things on fire with her mind and becomes the subject of a government experiment.
"Stephen King is a hero of mine — I think that he creates fascinating worlds," he recently said of the film (via Entertainment Weekly).
Firestarter premieres in cinemas in the UK and the US on Friday, May 13, and you can watch the High School Musical trilogy on Disney+ now.
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