Zac Efron On Drugs? Say It Ain’t So!

Zac Efron On Drugs? Say It Ain’t So!

It ain’t so.

But if Zac Efron signs on for the much-talked about sequel to the 2007 movie musical Hairspray, his character Link Larkin would!

Producer Marc Shaiman tells MTV that the sequel would be a true John Waters-type film. But what about the plot? He shares, “People hate Tracy (Nikki Blonsky) because she doesn’t lose weight. They ask ‘Now that you’re famous, why won’t you lose weight?’. And Link (Efron) experiments with drugs. Throughout half the movie, he has an ongoing dialogue with three pimples on his forehead. Edna (John Travolta) loses weight, but sees her husband (Christopher Walken) lusting after fat women. And so, she finally breaks down and runs over to a snack table. Just within one number, she gets fat again; gaining 20 pounds at a time. [Her fat] pops out, and by the end of the song she’s completely at her old weight again.”

WHAT YOU YOU THINK — would you go see Hairspray 2?

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maria @ 7:09 pm on 12/09/2008

how could you hate nikki and not hate vanessa. i mean COME ON!! she had naked photos done of herself and you still like her. i mean, she can be forgiven but she wont just be the same person she was seen as before. zac can do much better than that. she can be cute and all that, but she’s not enough woman for such man as zac.

sofila @ 7:16 pm on 12/09/2008

tbh, he already did a hell of a lot better than nikki blonsky. vanessa least apologized. Nikki didn’t even do that with her incident. Plus living off his name…not likeable

boo @ 7:35 pm on 12/09/2008

#30
wheres vanessa wtf this is about hs2 and zac efron not tht ugly mug

jocelyn @ 7:36 pm on 12/09/2008

ARE ZAC AND VANESSA STILL DATING?!?!?!

:] lovebug @ 8:04 pm on 12/09/2008

this is very plausible. it’s been written by JOHN WATERS. he’s kmown for writing craked out, not the norm kind of scripts, it’s what created him.

do i think zac will take this role? for the right VERY HIGH price, yes. anything that has been leaked from the plot is nothing that zac supports, so for him to forgo his morals for a role it’s going to take a lot to clear his concience. aaand if everyone but him signs on, which i also think is doubtful, i’m sure he’ll be peer pressured into joining.

thoughts on hairspray 2-the first released last year was my abs. favorite. i watched it daily after it came out on dvd. i also love the broadway play very much. the ONLY thing that would make me watch it would be zac’s appearance because either way, the plot is going to sucks. there is no where to go from the first movie, without going into a new era. no stone was left unturned. being a big fan of everything hairspray, i am very unhappy with the way this rumor is infolding.

Karen @ 8:05 pm on 12/09/2008

#129–Jocelyn:

For heaven sakes, YES!

:] lovebug @ 8:07 pm on 12/09/2008

and as for type casting zac, this porbably won’t be coming out for a few more years, so by then he’ll have two movies released, and begining production on footloose so he won’t have done musicals for a while. buuuut he does need to stay away from that genre of film.

bri @ 8:11 pm on 12/09/2008

OMG
NO

maria @ 8:55 pm on 12/09/2008

Coming from another maria, yeah, we still LOVE Vanessa. She’s strong, made a mistake, and gathered herself together and moved on with courage!!! GOTTA LOVE THAT!!! So glad you’re so perfect that you can throw stones at someone else.

marisa @ 9:44 pm on 12/09/2008

horrendous plot!
zac i love you, but don’t sign on unless the plot is good! you’re a smart guy!

rhonda @ 10:52 pm on 12/09/2008

Loved Hairspray and Zac and Nikki were fabulous. The people who say it was awful must have not read or heard about the great success it was at the box office. All the Zanessa fans hate Nikki and the fact that she and Zac are still friends is just a downer to them. Get over it….. they are actors playing a role so YES I would love to see them reprise their roles and see HS2. It was a super musical and peoples of all ages and around the world loved it as did I. so I say go for it and make us all smile again!!

bella @ 10:56 pm on 12/09/2008

Love him and loved HS. So I would absolutely go and see HS2. Just the pure singing voice of Nikki Blonsky and all the other talented actors would be well worth the price of admission.

phil @ 11:01 pm on 12/09/2008

Yes I would go see it! I just love that doll Nikki and Efron was quite good too. I actually think that movies put him on the map because it was seen not only by teens but by all age groups and it had great success. Go for it Zac. You and Blonsky make a darling couple.

Jeneva @ 11:36 pm on 12/09/2008

Ugh. I’m not seeing this. I didn’t see the first one and I have no plans to see the 2nd one. Zac, don’t do it!

Nicole @ 12:40 am on 12/10/2008

MAJOR fail on question.
No. Hairspray is supposed to be a PG movie that is suited for young children and families to watch. I really don’t think that adding three pimples to a 21 year old sex symbol & makung him expirement with drugs; and making the plot revolve around the situations of a ‘fat’ issue in the family will work.
I might just for Zac, because he truly is gorgeous and is a great actor, but Nikki Blonsky irks me, and the plot seriously makes me laugh.
Possibly? But, i’ll definitely be seeing 17 Again.

BTW, love Just Jared Jr, Jared! <3

Zanessa Is HOTT @ 12:48 am on 12/10/2008

NOOOO WAYYY. Personally i dont think zac wud sign on 2 this movie cuz it has drugs in it, and he’s the one who has to experiment wiv em. i no he wudnt do it, he’s to sensible to do that.

LOVE ZACCCC

Boji @ 7:01 am on 12/10/2008

This movie line is so offbeat, with the pimples issue, drugs and dieting/slimming that it sounds bizarre. Certainly not recommended for young teens and tweenies.

SandeeeRa @ 9:51 am on 12/10/2008

without blonsky - FOR SURE!
with her- NOPE!

Karen @ 4:54 pm on 12/10/2008

I don’t know that Zac wouldn’t do a movie about drugs but I don’t think he would do one that made it seem funny or glamorized in any way. I think a subject of drug use and Zac would have to be a serious matter with a more adult story to it.

Some “Zanessa” fans may be against him doing HS2 because they are strictly against seeing him with Nikki but some Zac fans who are also fans of Z&V as a couple don’t want him doing this movie because they are afraid it is overkill on the musicals plain and simple. They also don’t like such an off-beat storyline. Some who are in the latter group used to even support Nikki but may not now just because she has proven how she never knows when to keep her mouth shut and respect her “good friend’s” privacy. She always is right ready to bring up his name and it looks like she does that—-whether it be true or not—just to gain attention. You don’t hear Amanda Bynes or Britney”(sp) Snow—or any other of his friends—talking about Zac any chance they get.

istar @ 5:25 pm on 12/10/2008

#1 - i agree with you!
i really dislike nikki.
hairspray will be ruined with a second movie
and zac efron and drugs will equal bad rep and not a great heart throb. i love zac efron but he needs to start letting go of musicals.
also another movie with nikki and zac will literally make me puke in the cinemas. no kidding.

emily @ 6:54 pm on 12/10/2008

i love zac and hairspray but it doesnt sound good. drugs are you kidding?

vanessa better @ 8:13 pm on 12/10/2008

I HATE NIKKI SOOO MUCH!!!! UGH!!
VANESSA ROCKS!!!!
NIKKI SUCKS!!!

gigi @ 9:31 am on 12/11/2008

i really don tlike the drugs.

liza @ 4:53 pm on 12/11/2008

idc about the movie…
i only care that he shows up the hottie he is! :D

mishyB @ 1:10 am on 12/12/2008

uhm not at all. Even if Zac Efron thought the plot was good enough to pursue the role of Link Larkan again I would not watch Hairspray 2. The plot seems horrific. And if ZAc is truly serious about his acting career he would never sink this low into doing a sequel to Harispray. It just should not be done. Enough Musicals. Zac I want to see you act.

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