The actor stars in ‘A Family Affair’, the new Netflix romantic comedy that hits the platform this Friday
Zac Efron is enjoying one of the best moments of his film career since his years at Disney. Moviegoers expected this to be the first year in which the actor received an Oscar nomination for The Iron Clan, but the film was one of the great forgotten ones of the Academy Awards. Despite this, the audience’s recognition is still present and she now returns as the protagonist of a Netflix film. It should be remembered that Efron’s life has not always been so simple. The protagonist of A family affair revealed at the age of 26 that he had had a troubled past due to his drug addiction.
The actor revealed to The Hollywood Reporter his problem with drugs and alcohol during the promotional tour for Malditos Vecinos. “He drank a lot, too much. It’s never something specific. You’re 20 years old, you’re single, you live in Hollywood… You know? You have everything at your disposal“I wouldn’t change anything, I had to learn from everything I did. At the very least, I’d say it was an interesting journey,” Efron explains, accepting the consequences that come with being such a young actor in the Hollywood industry.
Whoever you are, growing up you face challenges. But it’s especially humiliating when they turn out to be so public and so judgmental. When you are successful so young and accept good things, you have to accept everything. You have to accept the moments of glory, but also a great responsibility. And that responsibility, to some extent, involves being a role model. At the same time, I am a human being and I have made many mistakes. I have learned from each of them
The actor had to join Alcoholics Anonymous and go to therapy to overcome his terrible addiction. One of the public mistakes he made before going to rehab was accidentally confronting a homeless man in the middle of the street. Efron was driving his car with a friend when they ran out of gas in the middle of the road. Like any boy his age, the interpreter decided to call a taxi service and wait for them to come pick them up.
At that moment, “a homeless man tapped on the driver’s window. Before I knew it, my friend was out of the car and they started fighting. I saw that [el vagabundo] He was carrying some kind of knife and I got out of the car to disarm him.. At one point, he dropped the knife and I was hit hard in the face, and almost instantly the police arrived to break up the fight.” The altercation became public knowledge and they both went home to forget what had happened. “It was the scariest moment of my life.“.
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Now the actor is 26 years old and has been chosen to star A family affairthe new Netflix romantic comedy. The film arrives on the platform this Friday and Efron is lucky enough to have Nicole Kidman and Joey King as his co-stars. The story follows a young assistant who works for a well-known actor. His life seems to be going smoothly, until he discovers that his boss’s new girlfriend is his mother.Check out the movie trailer above!
