Get ready to see a new side ofZac Efron.
In his upcoming movieThe Greatest Beer Run Ever, the actor, 34, stars as real-life accidental local hero Chickie Donohue, who in 1967 decided on a whim to bring beer from his New York neighborhood to his friends serving in the Vietnam War.
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“It resonates today, on a lot of levels. At that time in the United States, the country was as divided as it is today,” says Farrelly. “It had, and [the division] was over Vietnam, and it shows that both sides had a point and I mean, obviously, the war sucked. It was a bad war. But the soldiers didn’t suck. The soldiers were 18-, 19-year-old kids who were patriots and they were doing their duty.“What sets apart Donohue’s incredible experience andBeer Run— which included an actual beer run/delivery — is that the film is centered on a “normal” person’s point of view versus the military’s or a soldier’s.
“What I love about this is there’s been Vietnam movies, but there’s never been one told from [this] point of view, and that’s what’s interesting,” says Farrelly. “He’s looking at it from where America looked at it, not where the soldiers looked at it. They were in the throes of it, but we were on the outside looking in, and this is a guy who thought he knew what was going on from what he saw on the news. But he went over there and found out it was quite different.”
source: people.com
