NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Matthew Perry has admitted Zac Efron has turned down a major role in the Friends actor’s upcoming directorial debut.
The 53-year-old star wanted Zac – who played a younger version of him in 2009 body swap comedy 17 Again – to take on the lead in a romantic comedy Matthew has written before realising he was too old to take on the part himself.
‘I finished a screenplay that we’re out with to some people. Um, I wanna direct that,’ he told SiriusXM’s Pop Culture Spotlight with Jessica Shaw. ‘I have a small part in it. I wrote it for myself and then realised I’m 20 years too old to play this. So we’re trying to cast the leads now.’
Asked who could play a younger version of himself, Matthew admitted Zac, 35, was approached for the job but things didn’t work out, so now it’s back to the drawing board.