Some brothers bond over video games. Others? Emotional phone calls during wrestling movies.
While chatting with Tish and Brandi Cyrus on the Thursday, April 3 episode of their Sorry We’re Cyrus podcast, Dylan Efron opened up about how filming The Iron Claw brought him and brother Zac Efron closer than ever — even if he didn’t realize it at the time.
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“In hindsight, when [Zac] was filming that movie, he was calling me almost every other day,” the 33 year-old influencer shared. “He was like, ‘Yeah this movie’s really hard, I’m just calling to catch up and stuff like that.’”
It didn’t register until much later why those calls felt different.
“I never put it together until after the show came out,” Dylan admitted. “I knew it was about brothers and stuff like that, but it didn’t click for me that he was calling me so much during that because he was so emotional.”
Zac, now 37, took on the role of Kevin Von Erich in the 2023 sports drama, which follows the real-life Von Erich wrestling family — five of the six brothers died tragically. In the film, the High School Musical alum stars alongside Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, and Lily James.
Meanwhile, Dylan’s been making moves of his own — winning The Traitors, charming TikTok with his Fourth Wing obsession, and teasing he’d love a role in the upcoming series. “Oh, hell yeah, sign me up!” the producer told Page Six last month when asked if he’d take a role.
Zac and Dylan grew up in California with their parents, Starla Baskett and David Efron, who both worked at a power plant. After their divorce in 2016, David remarried and welcomed two more children — Olivia and Henry.
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