When the White House extended an invitation to teen star Zac Efron to come visit while he was in town promoting his new movie “Me and Orson Welles,” surely it was so he could meet the Obama girls, right?
“I secretly suspected that was why we were going to meet,” said the film’s director Richard Linklater, who alongside Efron and co-star Claire Danes paid a visit to the White House on Tuesday.
But when they arrived, there was no Sasha and Malia to be seen.
“They didn’t play sick,” Danes said.
Instead, the actors and director met with policy advisers, including former actor Kalpen Modi, to chat about arts in public schools, a topic that Modi holds dear.
Despite not meeting the Obamas, Efron and Danes still loved the experience.
“It was still really cool,” Efron said, noting he had visited the White House as a kid.
“They do real things in that building,” Danes said, who had never been there in all her years of stardom. “They enact change.”
