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Actor Zac Efron is the new cover guy for the latest issue of Nylon Guys Magazine (November 2009). The 21 year-old, who has been dating his HSM co-star Vanessa Hudgens since they first started back in 2005, talks about his new movie, music and fame.

Here are some highlights from Zac Efron’s Nylon Guys interview:

On Me and Orson Welles. “It’s the first time I’ve ever watched a movie [that I’m in] and in the end I’m like, ‘OK! I didn’t check my watch once!’”

On growing up musically inclined. “I was constantly singing. I would hear things on the radio and just be able to spit them out instantly, with perfect memorization and tone. It wasn’t like I took pride in it; there was no effort. My parents were like ‘Shut up. Please stop singing. It’s annoying.’”

On whether celebrity albums are necessary. “If anyone asked themselves that, then we wouldn’t have the crap we are listening to today. If your heart’s not in it, don’t do it. And don’t do it for money. That’s my philosophy.”

On Disney fame. “I try not to look at all of it. You can’t enjoy or celebrate it; it’s not a real thing. The face on the lunchbox and shit—you can’t share that with your friends.”

Zac Efron is currently hard at work filming ‘The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud’ but his latest film, ‘Me and Orson Welles’ is getting ready for release later this year. The film, directed by Richard Linklater (‘School of Rock’ and ‘Dazed and Confused’) and co-starring Claire Danes, finds Efron playing a struggling young actor who is befriended and used by the great Orson Welles and learns the hard way how cutthroat the backstage world of show business can be. Check out the trailer above.