Doing an impression of Robert De Niro is almost ritual at this point in pop culture, with Matthew McConoughey a close second favorite. But according to Zac Efron , who has worked with the Taxi Driver himself, no one does a better De Niro impression than Dave Franco. Efron was able to see Franco's impression first hand when they filmed Neighbors .
And it was during that shoot that Efron was banking on his own impersonation being so bad that it would be hilarious. The raunchy comedy about a couple with a newborn baby living next door to a frat house released a decade ago, but the Baywatch star says he remembers it so vividly like it was yesterday. In a recent edition of Vanity Fair ’s Scene Selection, Zac Efron was asked to rewatch the scene in which the frat brothers throw a Robert De Niro party.
The script called for Efron's Teddy Sanders to do an impression of the legendary actor, and the Paperboy star found it was easier said than done: In this scene in particular, I remember not really having a De Niro impression, like a very good one at all. And just kind of knowing I was going to be winging it and hopefully betting on the fact, the worse it was, the funnier it would be. And it worked out.
The High School Musical alum is no stranger to impersonating people on screen. Some of Zac Efron’s best performances have been biopics in which he has portrayed the likes of Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw and Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile . His performanc.
