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An actor with possibilities


He seems to be trying hard, but perhaps flailing a bit, in his choices of projects, but I know that his early successes limit him. I applaud him for going for indie projects, but he still has to pay the bills with a few commercial projects (I've heard stars far bigger than him speak to that same dilemma: gotta do that big box office blockbuster to get your pet project meaningful movie into production, sadly. Just bidness).
He's also having to overcome the teen heartthrob thing, much like DiCaprio, & the tootoo handsome thing, like Clooney, or even Don Johnson, who in his Miami Vice heyday acclaimed his maturing looks, saying that he'd waited his entire career to grow into them as an actor.

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When Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith started dating and sleeping together, she was only 14! He was 22. But they married soon after.

Efron is awesome. He'll be a very distinguished older man in his 50s and later, when he starts acting a lot more roles for retirement money.

Kinda like a Sean Connery type, really.... except Efron could not do Bond.

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