Oct 8 2009 'Me and Orson Welles' Trailer: O.W. Up'n Stole Zac Efron's Best Girl!

Congratulations, chubby extra: despite very nearly ruining the shot, you made it in the movie! Well done. Now here's the rest of the bland historical-rom-com-trailer/Orson-Welles-impression-reel so you can see if you made it in anywhere else:

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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.

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Aug 22 2008 Zac Efron Pretending to be an Actor in 'Me and Orson Welles'

Twitch Film has the first look at Zac Efron not in a school's musical production, starring in Richard Linklater's Me and Orson Welles. I've been skeptical of Efron's part because he has an aging-sprite-like quality I find jarring, but maybe the casting will end up somehow getting a new generation of tween girls into the works of Welles (that won't happen). Or if this doesn't work, maybe MTV can make a hip-hop dance competition-based romance called Citizen K. Rosebud can be a do-rag?

Jan 18 2008 Efron Meeting Welles, Overjoys Adolescent 'Citizen Kane' Fanbase

Zac Efron, the young actor blurring the line between sprite and terribly effeminate man-child, has scored a role in Richard Linklater's latest, Me and Orson Welles.

Set in 1937, the story centers on a high school student (Efron) who, while strolling the streets of New York, happens upon the yet-to-open Mercury Theatre and is noticed by its mercurial founder, Orson Welles. The man lands a bit part in "Julius Caesar," the production that catapulted Welles to the top, and spends the next week learning about life and love.

Wondering how the Tiger Beat pinup, known mostly for his role in High School Musical, will handle a more dramatic part? I think I have the answer, under the cut.

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