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Efron 'still cringes over first audition'

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-11-25 14:59

Zac Efron has reportedly confessed that he nearly gave up on acting in the early days of his career.

The High School Musical star attended his first casting call at the age of 15 with the producers of a Peter Pan-inspired project, but his acting skills did not impress the Hollywood judges and he was rejected almost immediately.

Contactmusic quotes him as saying: "My first audition ever was for this Peter Pan live-action show when I was 15 and I'd just done the play Peter Pan so I thought, 'Who could be better?'

"I showed up and it was on tape in this tiny room. On stage you speak to the back of the room and you project and Peter Pan is very animated and jumping off things and going crazy so that's what I did in the audition, running around and jumping off my chair, singing the lines.

"This woman interrupted me and goes, 'You've never done this before, have you?' and I went, 'No', and she went, 'OK, you can go', and that was the worst audition ever, ever in my life. I kind of wept about that one."