Efron got boot for hyper audition

Zac Efron performed such an over-the-top audition as a child that he was asked to leave the room.

The ‘High School Musical’ star plays a teenage student who, by luck, gets to work with a young Orson Welles in the new coming-of-age drama ‘Me and Orson Wells’.

He said his early try-out still haunts him now.

He said: “That was my first experience and I had just done the play ‘Peter Pan’ so I thought I was… I mean, who could be better?! We were all quite young and I wasn’t even playing Peter - I was playing John - but I’d watched loads of actors play Peter, so I showed up at the audition and I was dancing around and jumping off things and being crazy...

“I ran around, I jumped up on my chair and started singing the lines and then she interrupted me, she goes: ‘You’ve never done this before have you?’ and I said: ‘No, not at all.’ And she said: ‘OK, you can go.’”

The 22-year-old actor – who is most famous for his roles in the 'High School Musical' films – admitted he broke down in tears after he was rejected.

He said: “It was completely my fault; I thought I was auditioning for the play. I kinda wept about that one.”