Kevin Von Erich is highly impressed with Zac Efron.
The Hollywood actor is set to portray Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw film. Accordingly, the movie will depict the rise and the fall of the famous wrestling family, the Von Erichs. Directed by Sean Durkin, the film will premiere sometime in 2023. Recently, training photos of Zac Efron emerged as he prepared for his role, evidence of his great physical condition.
Kevin Von Erich himself recently saw the photos, revealing his thoughts on Efron’s depiction on The Iron Claw movie. “It’s going to be a hard job, I think,” he told TMZ. “It’s a lot of information and a lot of time, and so, they’ve got some tough work ahead of them, but I saw a picture of the guy (Zac Efron), and he looked great. Man, I don’t think I ever looked that good! I think they’re going to do great, I bet they do. I talked to the director, [he] seemed like a really nice guy.”
Von Erich noted that he “was never a bodybuilder. I just wanted to lift, just be better at what I did. It makes life better when you’re in shape, and you can do things.”
Although Von Erich confirmed he spoke with the director, Sean Durkin, he hasn’t spoken directly to Zac Efron. “As far as he is concerned, I just saw this picture, and he looks really good and muscular. So my daughters told me that he’s doing quite a few [movies] in the [film world] — so I didn’t see him before, but he looked great though, so he must be working out hard.”
“I’ll tell you, for the picture that they showed me at first and the picture they showed me the other day, he must really be working out hard because you’re right, he does have a good body.”
The former NWA American Heavyweight Champion continued on to disclose if he plans on watching the film. “Oh yeah, I’ll watch it and it’ll be fun,” he said. “We’ll all get together, maybe watch it out in the yard. We do that sometimes. We have a lot of children here, and sometimes we put a big screen up in the yard and we watch movies outside at night. We’ll probably do that with this one. It’ll be a lot of fun.”
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