--- title: Zac Efron Talks About The Rock for 73 Questions Video description: The former 'High School Musical' star spilled all in a new '73 Questions' video, including his preferred celebrity choice for a love scene. canonical: https://time.com/4959446/zac-efron-the-rock/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-27T18:44:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:38.556Z og:title: Here's the Celebrity Zac Efron Would Do a Love Scene With og:description: We already know they have good onscreen chemistry og:url: https://time.com/4959446/zac-efron-the-rock/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the Celebrity Zac Efron Would Do a Love Scene With twitter:description: We already know they have good onscreen chemistry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's the Surprising Celebrity Zac Efron Wants a Love Scene With > Sponsored content. 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And when asked who he would like do a love scene with in future? “The Rock. Finish what we started,” he quipped in response. Efron, who will next be seen onscreen alongside Hugh Jackman, [Zendaya](http://time.com/4899463/versace-on-the-floor-video-zendaya/) and Michelle Williams in [_The Greatest Showman_ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXCTMGYUg9A)this winter, also spilled some surprising details of his past while hanging out at his hillside L.A. residence and giving us all a glimpse of his restored sweet ride and chill barbecue setup and pool, around which he keeps a life-size cutout of himself. Namely, he’s a cat man (his first pet was a stray cat he named Cuckoo Kitty), he owns all the albums of [everyone’s queen Celine Dion](http://time.com/4845074/paris-fashion-week-celine-dion/), and he used to have a poster of [Tyra Banks](http://time.com/4699325/tyra-banks-replacing-nick-cannon-americas-got-talent-host/) up in his bedroom back in high school (in a purple bikini, naturally). And while his Christopher Walken impression leaves something to be desired, he nails Seth Rogen’s vocal tics. Efron even dispenses some sage advice: “Be like water, my friend.” Watch him dish out rapid-fire answers, above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4959446/zac-efron-the-rock/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4959446/zac-efron-the-rock/"},"headline":"Here's the Surprising Celebrity Zac Efron Wants a Love Scene With","datePublished":"2017-09-27T18:44:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:38.556Z","description":"The former 'High School Musical' star spilled all in a new '73 Questions' video, including his preferred celebrity choice for a love scene.","url":"https://time.com/4959446/zac-efron-the-rock/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","zac efron"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4959446/zac-efron-the-rock/","name":"Here's the Surprising Celebrity Zac Efron Wants a Love Scene With"}}]}] ```