Sep 12 2008'Me and Orson Welles' Clip ('Me' Being The 'High School Musical' Guy)
Thanks to K Lee for sending along this clip from Me and Orson Welles, in which Welles asks Zac Efron if he can sing--as if he hasn't seen High School Musical like a zillion times! To demonstrate that he can, in fact, sing, Efron plays a short drum solo and sings a Wheaties jingle. Only makes sense.
As respectable of a job as Christian McKay does with this Welles impression, nothing can beat the definitive Welles-impersonation combo of Vincent D'Onofrio and the voice of The Brain from Pinky and the Brain.
Reader Comments
1. Hatey McWrathenstein - September 12, 2008 2:13 PM
"nothing can beat the definitive Welles-impersonation combo of Vincent D'Onofrio and the voice of The Brain from Pinky and the Brain."
Fuckin' A... but not a bad second; McKay captures the full-throated cockiness pretty well.
2. fdsfdsfr4d - September 12, 2008 2:37 PM
whats the fuckin point of this movie? the story is fuckin dull and the script is horrendous. and after seeing that clip its also quite clear to me that all the actors are shit as well.
i cant fuckin understand who finances movies like these.
3. momboelitist - September 12, 2008 3:10 PM
Orson Welles = genius
These guys = not so much.
4. rickslepthere - September 12, 2008 3:27 PM
what was linklater thinking casting that efron sprite? i can't even watch this clip, much less an entire film with him. which sucks because... orson welles!
5. Brandon - September 12, 2008 7:44 PM
Is it wrong that I wanted to kick Zac Effron in the teeth while he was singing?
6. Dinges - September 13, 2008 6:52 AM
Aaah... Pinky & The Brain... Labratory mice... genes have been spliced... Wonderfull memories. Wonder when they will make that into a live-action feature.
7. Allison - September 15, 2008 7:25 PM
For some reason I can definitely see this as being very similar to Zac's audition...
He sings wheaties jingle...
Director interrupts: YOU ARE HIRED!!!!!