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He topped the box office over the weekend – and 17 Again star Zac Efron keeps the celebration going, cheering on the Los Angeles Lakers to a 113-100 victory over the Utah Jazz while sitting courtside with girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens Sunday at the Staples Center.

Will someone please tell Jared Leto Zac Efron how stupid his hair looks! It drives me nuts!!

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Poor Zac Efron.  He says that on the set of his most recent film, “17 Again”, he was slapped ‘about 50 times’

The actor claims he thought that there was a way to ‘fake slap’ someone.  Sadly for him however, his co-star Tom Lennon confessed that there was no fake slap, just real ones, the effects of which can be seen in the movie

“Honestly, I thought there was a way to ‘fake slap’. I was like, ‘What’s gonna happen? Do they make a slap sound and I just move my head really quick?’

 ”But there’s no way – my co-star Tom Lennon came up to me and just told me, ‘Sorry dude, we’re just gonna go for it’. And I’m like, ‘Well, of course you say that, you’re on the easy end’.”And then cut to fifty slaps later… you could see it in the movie, my face is bright red.”

Despite the pain Zac says he had a great time on the set, and would love to continue doing traditional films (non-musicals)

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What happens when white trash relatives crash a Hollywood pool party? For Zac Efron, whose Uncle Hank (Tom Lennon) tells him he “smells like waffles,” nothing but embarrassing outbursts, awkward requests, and, yes, poop in the hot tub.

Vanessa Hudgens, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, Carmen Electra, Lance Bass, Brody Jenner, Jessica Stroup, Brittany Snow and Queen Latifah are among the stars who join Efron in a wacky Funny or Die video that debuted Wednesday. “A lot of people did it because they want to hang out with Zac,” 17 Again producer Adam Shankmen, who co-directed the clip, tells PEOPLE. “It is the craziest group of people.”

In the video, Bass says he is proud that he has been able to “not Google himself” for over a week, while Madden starts talking marriage with Richie – watch the clip to see how that turns out!

Some of Shankman’s favorite moments: “Nicole Sullivan (as Efron’s Uncle Hank’s girlfriend Randi) sitting over a waterfall in a pool thinking that her water burst – because she’s pregnant. Justin Long drinking beer underwater and eating hot dogs (a.k.a. the poop) while we were shooting with under water cameras,” he says. “And then just this strangeness of all these people sitting around my house at 10 in the morning. It was all on the fly and really fun.”

Even though Efron was the star, he didn’t act like a big shot, adds Shankman. “[Zac] was blown away that we could put it together and he was really, deeply grateful. If you want to know what kind of people Zac and Vanessa [Hudgens] are … I turned around and Vanessa was taking out the garbage and Zac was doing the dishes. They have no entitlement issues, it’s all for one and one for all. Nothing is taken for granted.”

Shankman adds: “The media forces us to take our lives so serious but we know we’re not curing cancer so we might as well make people laugh, we’re entertainers. It’s cool because everyone knows we’re not getting paid so there are no egos.”

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“I was looking for a new challenge, and this was another musical,” he tells Us

Zac Efron says he dropped out of the Footloose remake because he wants to “grow a bit.”

“I want to grow a bit with the types of movies I want to make,” says Efron — who rose to fame with High School Musical. His next flick, 17 Again, opens April 17.

Footloose, he says, “sort of” wasn’t a good fit.

“It was more along the lines that I was looking for a new challenge, and this was another musical,” he says. It’s been rumored Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford could replace him.

Efron insists he’s “not…done with musicals in any way.

“I look forward to being in them when possible,” he says. “I want to try different things.”

Ideally, he’d like to do “everything” — comedy, drama, action.

“I’m still figuring it out truthfully…I don’t know,” he says. “It’s more about learning for me right now and trying as many things as possible.”

Efron says “it’s hard” to pick one person’s career to emulate, but ideally he’d like to follow in the footsteps of “anyone who has tried new things and isn’t afraid to take risks. People that work hard. Leo [DiCaprio], Johnny [Depp], Michael J. Fox.”

The actor says filming 17 Again made him “hungry for more.

“It was a blast. It really turned things around for me,” he says. “It was exciting, educational.”

He’s currently focusing on drama The Death & Life of Charlie St. Cloud, in which he plays a cemetery caretaker who has weekly meetings with his dead siblings. He also falls in love with a young woman who may have died in a sailing accident.

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