Exclusive: Zac Efron shares his experience of getting beaten up on the sets | – Times of India

Zac Efron, who is known for his films like High School Musical and 17 Again, is currently seen essaying the role of wrestler Kevin Von Erich in Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw. The film is a biographical sports drama film based on the life of wrestler Kevin Von Erich and his family, who were believed to be cursed as the family kept on losing one kid after another to death. The film already had its release in America on December 23 and made on the budget of merely US $ 15 million, it has gone on to collect more than US $ 35 million.The film stars Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White,Harris Dickinson and Stanley Simmons as brothers.

In an exclusive interview with ETimes, the actors revealed that it was Zac who was beaten up the most on the sets. Talking about it, Zac said , “Yeah, probably, I think I got knocked around the most just from the sheer volume of matches Kevin had. I think Kevin had like three matches from start to finish in the film and each one of those was anywhere from 10 minutes to15 minutes. Some of them are 20 minutes in length and we would do them from start to finish every time. Like professional wrestlers, they rehearse probably once or twice and do their performance while we were doing it 20 to 30 times a day for a few days (Smiles).”
The brothers also revealed that it was Harris Dickinson who got Von Erich’s finishing move in The Iron Claw the best. Jeremey stated , “Harrison had the best Iron Claw. He has these big hands and is a tall guy and he had an emotion wrapped in the move, it was like the claw had a mind of its own.”