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Dwayne Johnson (left) and Zac Efron during production of ‘Baywatch’ (Photo: Dwayne Johnson/Instagram)

Troubled by your choice of presidential candidates in 2016? Zac Efron knows how you feel, and he’s already got an alternative candidate in mind — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. 

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“He wants to make an impact beyond acting,” said Efron of his Baywatch co-star in an interview with The Times of London. “He could run for president. F--- it, he’d be better than anyone at this point.”

The Rock himself has teased a possible future in politics in an interview with British GQ:

“I’ll be honest, I haven’t ruled politics out. I’m not being coy when I say that, but at the moment I am not sure. I can’t deny that the thought of being governor, the thought of being president, is alluring. And beyond that, it would be an opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives on a global scale.”

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Before Johnson follows in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, he has an overflowing plate of entertainment projects to complete first. Not only has his HBO series Ballers just been renewed for a third season, but Johnson is also a part of that big screen version of Baywatch with Efron, Disney’s Moana, Fast 8 (and possible sequels), the remake of Jumanji, and at least six other announced projects he’s attached to through 2019, according to IMDB. Hmmm, so that means he’s free for a 2020 ballot project — unless he gets too busy running his new YouTube channel by then?

Zac Efron just failed High School Musical fans worldwide. 

While promoting his new flick, We Are Your Friends, with director Max Joseph and co-star Emily Ratajkowski, he was asked by Cosmopolitan UK to participate in a little game of “name that tune." 

The game was off to a good start when Ratajkowski quickly identified Beyoncé’s hit "Drunk In Love,” but once the High School Musical love ballad “Breaking Free” started playing, the former Disney star blew it, taking 22 seconds to name the tune. 

Zac Efron doesn’t know who his real friends are in the first trailer for his new film We Are Your Friends (you can watch the video above).

Efron stars as Cole, a 23-year-old aspiring DJ who is trying desperately to escape the Valley. He thinks his ticket out is in the form of one track that will propel him to EDM superstardom.

An older DJ, James (Wes Bentley), takes him under his wing to show him how to turn his hobby into a career. The relationships in his life, however, become strained when he falls for James’s girlfriend, Sophie (Gone Girl’s Emily Ratajkowski), and his more pragmatic friends begin to question his loyalty.

In the new music drama, We Are Your Friends, Zac Efron plays an up-and-coming DJ whose electronic beats never fail to get the crowd raving. Offscreen, though, the High School Musical star misses a few (dub)steps when it comes to identifying real-world superstar DJs. Yahoo Movies challenged Efron, as well as co-star Emily Ratajkowski (Gone Girl) and the movie’s director Max Joseph (instantly recognizable to fans of Catfish: The TV Series as Nev Schulman’s partner and cameraman), to play a game of “Bass or Bust,” which tasks them to separate authentic DJ names from fake ones. Watch the video above.

The trio start off in a good groove, correctly identifying best-selling EDM artist, Major Lazer. But from there, they struggle to stay on beat, mistakenly labeling Slime and Treasure Fingers as fictional. (On the other hand, they’re totally up to speed on their animated DJs, remembering the name of Paula Abdul’s former cartoon partner, MC Skat Kat.) Joseph fares the best overall, with Efron and Ratajkowski battling it out to avoid last place. When they make We Are Your Friends 2, the stars should probably enroll at EDM University for a quick refresher course. We Are Your Friends hits theaters on Friday.       

Watch the movie’s trailer: