Before his death, Matthew Perry reportedly expressed that he wanted his Zac Efron to play him in a biopic about his life.
, it was so surreal for me to look across and have him be there. Because I’ve just learned so much from him, from his whole life,” he said. “I’m honored to hear that he was thinking of me to play him. We’ll see. I’d be honored to do it.”, at the age of 54, in an apparent drowning at his home in Los Angeles.
“He was just looking forward to sharing more about his story and his recovery from addiction, and really championing that cause to help more people, so he was so optimistic and happy about everything that he wanted to do.”2023 CMA Awards: The Complete Winners List. During his life, the actor also transformed his own Malibu home into Perry House, a men’s sober living facility for those struggling with substance abuse that operated for two years before it was closed in 2015.
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