My Sassy Mind

Seventeen Again is about a guy played by Zac Efron whose life didn't quite turn out how he wanted it to and wishes he could go back to high school and change it. He wakes up one day and is seventeen again and gets the chance to rewrite his life. Seventeen again is a high school-set drama comedy to be released in 2009. Zac Efron is excited to be the age of seventeen again in the movie, well, Seventeen Again (formerly called just Seventeen).

In the film, which co-stars Matthew Perry, Efron plays a middle-age man suddenly transported back to his teenage years.

“Everything you do, you have to kind of view it from your dad’s perspective,” Efron said to MTV, revealing how he got in the head of an adult for the role. “I tried to do a few things that I learned from my dad — things that he thinks are cool but are really dorky.

“That seems to be working pretty well,” he laughed.

Portraying the young Mike O’Donnell — who gets his wish for a chance to go back to high school and redo his life — is the perfect way for Efron to transition from tween heartthrob to adult thesp in flicks such as Me and Orson Welles.

This is especially true given that the character offers him a shot at growing up without the side-effects of actually growing up.

“I could have gone out and just played a kid somewhere and had a blast. But now I’m playing a 40-year-old guy,” he said. “It’s kind of fun playing an adult.”(Source: ReelMovieNews)