Zac Efron Details His First Kiss & First Cinema Crush, Addresses Wrestling Nearly Naked in 'The Iron Claw'

On wrestling nearly naked in The Iron Claw, in a Speedo-like suit:

“It doesn’t leave much to the imagination! I got pretty beat up, but you feel like a warrior. It’s kind of fun.”

On his first acting gig:

“I think it was an episode of ER. Maura Tierney, who plays my mom in The Iron Claw, saved me. My character had a bad gunshot wound and was tossed on the sidewalk in front of the hospital. Maura rescued me, and they pulled the bullet out. I’m pretty sure I died.”

On his relationship to wrestling growing up:

“Growing up, I wasn’t allowed to watch wrestling. My parents didn’t like it because my brother and I would then start wrestling. But we snuck it. The Iron Claw is about the Von Erich family. These guys completely changed the world of wrestling.”

On his first kiss:

“In a tree house. We played spin the bottle. It was her birthday, and a bunch of us climbed up to the tree house. There were candles—it was pretty cool.”

On his cinematic crush:

“Tia Carrere from Wayne’s World. I loved her. She just seemed like a rock star.”

On The Iron Claw co-star Harris Dickinson singing High School Musical songs to him on set:

“People like to do that to mess with me. It’s pretty funny. We had a scene where we show up to a party where Stanley, I think, is singing a song. He performed it live, and then they just continued to move on to another song, and it was something from High School Musical. I had to stay in character while that was going on, and everybody else was just losing it. The camera was on me, and I was just trying to stay in character. It put me in Kevin’s shoes a little bit. I felt very uncomfortable.”

He also recently explained why he was rocking sunglasses during an early morning appearance.