{"id":6585,"date":"2016-09-20T15:20:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/scottish-zac-efron-honoured-to-be-compared-to-high-school-musical-star\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T21:03:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:03:05","slug":"scottish-zac-efron-honoured-to-be-compared-to-high-school-musical-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/scottish-zac-efron-honoured-to-be-compared-to-high-school-musical-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Zac Efron “honoured” to be compared to High School Musical star"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

A Scottish actor and singer set to star in a new Disney Channel series says he is \u201chonoured\u201d to be compared to Zac Efron ahead of its release.<\/p>\n

Thomas Doherty plays cheeky mountain biker Sean in The Lodge, which begins on Friday.<\/p>\n

The teen drama series \u2013 filmed and set in Northern Ireland \u2013 features am array of young British talent who play sporty youngsters at a holiday lodge in the rural countryside.<\/p>\n

(Disney)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

21-year-old Thomas\u2019 musical and acting talents have led to comparisons with Efron \u00e2\u0080\u0094 who rose to fame in hit Disney musical franchise High School Musical ten years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor people to make a comparison with High School Musical as it celebrates its tenth anniversary. The success of High School Musical\u2026 the comparison is exciting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked what he thought about the comparisons with Efron, the Edinburgh-based actor said: \u201cHe\u2019s had a wonderful career. It\u2019s definitely an inspiration for me, just starting out, to see what he\u2019s done.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor people to make that comparison, it\u2019s an honour.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Disney)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

And Thomas said he would love to eventually go into comedy and dreams of working with Hollywood stalwarts Leonardo Di Caprio and Martin Scorsese. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to do that. At the minute it\u2019s not on but yeah, I\u2019ve always wanted to do comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI would love to work with people like Di Caprio, Scorsese.\u201d<\/p>\n

Describing his character in The Lodge, Thomas revealed Sean is a \u201cconfident young man\u201d with a passion for mountain biking.<\/p>\n

He is also set to star as Captain Hook\u2019s son, Harry, in Descendants 2, which is being filmed in Canada.<\/p>\n

The young star added that being part of the Disney team was \u201cpretty special\u201d and had made his friends back in Scotland \u201cvery, very jealous\u2026 though not in a bad way\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Scottish actor and singer set to star in a new Disney Channel series says he is \u201chonoured\u201d to be compared to Zac Efron ahead of its release. Thomas Doherty plays cheeky mountain biker Sean in The Lodge, which begins on Friday. The teen drama series \u2013 filmed and set in Northern Ireland \u2013 features […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}