Hairspray Movie's Link — Page 7

Ok guys. I'll admit it. I've never seen High School Musical. I heard a couple of the songs from it when I was helping out with 7th grade choir. They are all obsessed with it. Other than that, and the fact that my local wal-mart has pretty much cleared out almost every other soundtrack/OCR/movie musical to make room for HSM, I probably would never have even heard of it.

And as far as this Zac kid goes... I'll give him a chance if he did land the role. We have to be fair to him. And we have to give him credit. At least he's trying to do more with his career than just be one of the tween stars Disney is mass-producing these days. He may not be exactly the person I was picturing for Link, but no matter who the producers chose they would not find someone that pleased every single person. As long as his eyebrows are dyed to match his hair, he won't even annoy me to watch him in the role.

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Ok, I don't much about contracts and stuff, but don;t you think Zac Effron's contract with Walt Disney due to the upcoming filming of HSM 2 would keep him from being able to accept this role, in a company not at all associated with Disney?

http://hairspray-movie-musical.blogspot.com/

MSNBC is reporting Zac has won the role of Link.

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Updated On: 6/25/06 at 12:46 PM

I do not know. I guess thats part of what they mean by "stretching him musically."

I like the fact that in the article they brought up the dubbing, and squashed the thought that he would be dubbed in this.

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Hah! Clever, mateo, linking to your site before the actual news. Good work, but I have it bookmarked already. :)

Also, I guess this is what we're stuck with then. I'm torn. I can't get his UCLA audition out of my head, but I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with him, and seeing what he'll look like with Link hair and a white suit, but hey, it's their call. I'm sure it'll be... interesting. :)

All I can say is that Corbin Bleu (Chad in High School Musical) hopefully won't come up as a Seaweed possibility, or things are REALLY going to be interesting.

Regardless of how he did at the audition, I think it is safe to say that his appeal with teenage girls right now is probably the main reason he was cast.

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To the above - I'm guessing that's EXACTLY why he was cast.

I can't say his performance in HSM was anything above average... the cast [save for Lucas Grabeel, who stuck out as one of the gayest characters to be permitted on Disney by the laws of family-friendly-ness, and who honestly wasn't half bad] was pretty much mediocre and didn't have the best voices ever.

Let's hope he doesn't kill the role of Link.

My main feeling, Weez, is that he may have been the best for the role of the ones they auditioned, but I still think it would have been fantastic to give the role to an unknown. This may sound slightly gay, but there's always a heartthrob that emerges in these movies that turns out to suddenly be huge -- why not give that chance to an unknown?

However, what I say doesn't work out because time only has so much flexibility with them finding a guy, so obviously they can't just look around forever until finding someone. Still, I only wish that an unknown could fill the shoes of Link, rather than someone who so many people have a preconceived notion of. :)

Viva la Link.