There is a new film out there that Roger Ebert says is “possibly the best movie about the theatre I’ve ever seen” That film will be hitting the Toronto International Film Festival next month and today we get to see the trailer for “Me and Orson Welles”
Get the Big Picture says:
The upcoming Richard Linklater film stars Zac Efron as a teenage actor cast in Welles’ theatrical production of Julius Caesar back in the 1930s. British actor Christian McKay portrays Welles.
And yes, that “Me” in Me and Orson Welles is Zac Efron. And frankly he isn’t acting at all like he did in his previous films. His chemistry with McKay looks so good and now I want to see it even more.
I was almost reminded of DiCaprio in Titanic at moments. Soft spoken sincerety, and a genuine smile that isnt all candy coated and posed.
I often wondered if there was more to Efron than Disney showed us, and this might be it.
