Being a DJ may seem pretty easy. You fiddle with a few knobs on a mixing board, push some buttons on a lap top, throw on a pair of headphones and you're good to go! Right? WRONG.
It takes really hard work to be a successful DJ, which is why the makers of "We Are Your Friends" put in a call to Jason Stewart, a real-life DJ known as Them Jeans. Stewart took Zac Efron under his wing to prepare him for the role of Cole, an aspiring DJ who wants to make it big in L.A.
"The first thing that went through my mind was, 'This is very strange, I don't know how I feel about it. But it sounds ridiculous and exciting and, why not?'" Stewart said, remembering back to when he was first called to work with Efron.
From there, Stewart was at Efron's house a few times a week. But Stewart says he didn't just have to teach Efron how to DJ -- but also, how to behave like one.
"A lot of it is the subtle nuances of how your body language is moving, how you're sort of fiddling with the nobs in a weird ADD motion that so many DJs do, and tapping of the foot to try to make sure that the two songs that are playing inside of your head are synching up, and for lack of a better phrase, get into the groove," he said.
Getting into the groove is no problem for Efron, whose early days involved singing and dancing on "High School Musical."
"He's a very skilled dancer, and he has a lot of rhythm and musicality in his bones," Stewart said. "But his role in the movie was sort of the timid, up-and-coming DJ guy who wasn't really, very confident in his work. So I had to sort of scale him down and say, 'Hey, don't dance around so much and don't get like too super funky because you need to rein it in and you're still a little unsure.' And then as the film progresses, he gets more confident," he said.
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