Zac Efron would be ‘honoured’ to play Matthew Perry in biopic

Matthew Perry wanted Efron for the role ‘because he did such a good job [on 17 Again]’. Photograph: Matt Sayles/AP

Zac Efron said he would be “honoured” to play Matthew Perry in a film that the Friends actor had been planning before his death on 29 October.

In an interview with Sirius XM in 2022, Perry said that he had asked Efron to play the lead role in a film that Perry had written and planned to direct, but that Efron had “said no”. The project was mentioned again in the wake of Perry’s death by the actor’s friend Athenna Crosby, who told People magazine that Perry’s movie was a biopic and that he “wanted Zac Efron, who’s played him already to play him again because he said he did such a good job”.