Claire Danes and Zac Efron brought on the glamour as they attended the premiere of Me And Orson Welles at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas in New York City on Monday (November 23).

Fresh off the British premiere of their Richard Linklater-directed period drama, the young actors were more than happy to promote their little movie-that-could about a teenager hired to star in Orson Welles’ production of Julius Caesar, where he becomes attracted to a career-driven production assistant.

Meanwhile, though he’s a veritable movie star now, Zac admits his first audition for a role was a complete disaster.

“My first audition ever was for this Peter Pan live action show when I was 15 and I’d just done the play Peter Pan so I thought ‘who could be better’,” the hunky star recalls. “I showed up and it was on tape in this tiny room. On stage you speak to the back of the room and you project and Peter Pan is very animated and jumping off things and going crazy so that’s what I did in the audition, running around and jumping off my chair, singing the lines. This woman interrupted me and goes ‘you’ve never done this before have you?’ and I went ‘no’ and she went ‘okay you can go’ and that was the worst audition ever, ever in my life. I kind of wept about that one.”