The First Photo of Zac Efron as Ted Bundy Is Here and Twitter Can't Deal
It's *chilling*.
Zac Efron, your Disney crush who grew up to be your regular crush, is taking his career in a new direction. After years of playing variations of the Hot Shirtless Bro (see Neighbors, Neighbors 2, and Baywatch), Efron is taking on the challenging part of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.
Efron shared a black and white photo of himself from the set of the movie, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, simply captioned "Meet Ted."
Meet Ted. #BehindTheScenes 🎬 pic.twitter.com/42IREG2kX6January 17, 2018
The photo Efron shared is a wide shot, but fans quickly cropped in to get a closer look at him in character. It's...eery.
Side-by-side photos of Efron in character and the real Bundy only make the picture more chilling.
Zac Efron as ted bundy in his new movie pic.twitter.com/y3pnbJ63goJanuary 17, 2018
What's more, the objectively creepy picture of Efron playing one of the most notorious, evil, and manipulative figures in modern history, has stirred up a range of feelings in the Twitterverse.
Zac Efron is playing Ted Bundy in a new movie and, well, that's gonna bring up some confusing feelings. pic.twitter.com/azAp4driaRJanuary 17, 2018
I feel like Zac Efron playing Ted Bundy is just wrong. Doesn’t fit at all to me.January 13, 2018
While some users are confused as to why their hot, hot actor crush is playing a serial killer, others are stepping up to remind everyone just how it was that Bundy was able to be so prolific and successful as a murderer—his charm and good looks. Bundy used his charm to murder dozens of women in the 1970s and he eventually confessed to committing 30 murders across seven states between 1974 and 1978.
lol these people saying not to romanticize ted bundy now that zac efron is playing him clearly don’t know how bundy killed peopleJanuary 17, 2018
The movie, which focuses on the story of Bundy’s crimes, is being told from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer. Lily Collins will portray Kloepfer in the film and posted her own character shot to Instagram today, captioned, "Meet Liz."
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Production on the film starts this month and we already can't wait to see the final product.
Kayleigh Roberts is a freelance writer and editor with over 10 years of professional experience covering entertainment of all genres, from new movie and TV releases to nostalgia, and celebrity news. Her byline has appeared in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, The Atlantic, Allure, Entertainment Weekly, MTV, Bustle, Refinery29, Girls’ Life Magazine, Just Jared, and Tiger Beat, among other publications. She's a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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