WELL, THERE THEY ARE. After Zac Efron removes his jacket and drapes it over the chair beside him, my eyes immediately zoop to his biceps peeking out from beneath his T-shirt. I spot a vein so protuberant that it looks like it's about to exit his skin.
I had seen Efron's biceps earlier, while on set for his photo shoot. When I got to the ranch in the hills north of Malibu, he was zooming about on an ATV, doing wild circles around the photographer and creating a cloud of dust. The sharp lines of his arms were apparent even through a dust tornado and even from a safe distance away.
When he arrives at the steakhouse in Thousand Oaks, where the staff has squirreled us away in a back room behind the kitchen, Efron positions himself as though to background the biceps-leaning forward, with his hands loosely intertwined on the table and I feel louche for peeking.
I feel even loucher for writing about them, but the thing is, Efron's arms have become part of his whole deal, appendages to his identity as well as to his torso-to say nothing of the torso itself. In 2017's Baywatch, his onscreen abs looked almost painted on. That film was a fit-guy debutant waltz for Efron. People started looking very closely at his body after that.
This story is from the October 2022 edition of Men's Health US.
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