Soon immediately after his death, it was revealed that Matthew Perry invested his ultimate times brainstorming a movie about his existence, which he wanted Zac Efron to star in. Efron beforehand played a younger version of Perry’s character in the 2009 comedy 17 Once more, so he’s a excellent casting decision. And when Efron lately located out about Perry’s want to reunite with him, the actor was honored, and explained he’d totally be down to perform Perry if a biopic at any time does get created.

In the wake of Perry’s loss of life on Oct. 28, his buddy Athenna Crosby, who was just one of the last men and women to ever speak to him, revealed to Leisure Tonight that he was planning to adapt his recent memoir into a movie about his struggles all over the a long time. He specially experienced Efron in intellect to portray him.

“He mentioned that he wanted to make a motion picture about his existence,” Crosby stated. “And he experienced worked with Zac Efron in the past on a movie, and he mentioned that he required Zac Efron to enjoy him as a young model [of himself] and that he was gonna inquire him soon to do that.”

Efron confirmed he listened to about Perry’s movie plan and took it as a “huge honor” at the Nov. 8 premiere of his motion picture The Iron Claw. “I listened to that and it is a massive honor,” Efron advised Amusement Tonight on the crimson carpet. “Matthew is just the ideal guy in the globe. I experienced the ideal time of my everyday living working with him. To think that he was imagining of me for that position… I suggest, I would be honored to do it, to be sincere.”

He expanded on how substantially reverence he held for Perry in a different interview with Men and women at the occasion.

“He was a mentor to me and we produced a truly awesome film with each other. I seemed up to him,” Efron explained. “I realized comedic timing from that male. When we ended up filming 17 Once again, it was so surreal for me to seem across and have him be there, mainly because I just figured out so much from him, from his complete existence. I’m honored to hear that he was considering of me to participate in him. And we’ll see I’d be honored to do it.”