Jeremy Allen White is ready to watch “High School Musical” — if Zac Efron holds his hand

White and Efron bonded while filming "The Iron Claw" but "The Bear" star has never seen his costar's musical trilogy.

Jeremy Allen White bravely admitted that he had not seen his The Iron Claw costar Zac Efron's High School Musical trilogy, but he's ready, willing, and able to commit — with one important caveat.

White had an early love of dance, though that love did not extend to the movies that made Efron a teen heartthrob, he revealed on the Just for Variety With Marc Malkin podcast.

"I haven't seen those films. I have not seen them," White admitted to Malkin. "Sorry, Zac. I will. I will watch them. I will."

"Only if Zac holds my hand through them," White added, jokingly. "That's how we'll get it done."

As Disney Channel lore has it, High School Musical premiered in 2006, starring a young cast of unknowns including Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Tisdale. The second film came out on Disney Channel in 2007, the same year Efron appeared in Hairspray. With Efron's star on the rise, the third installment of HSM got the theatrical treatment.

When Malkin suggested a HSM viewing party with White and Efron for charity, White was totally game: "Just film Zac and I, fingers interlaced in a theater, watching the three... it's three films?"

Well, three of the proper HSM movies with the main cast and then there's the 2011 spinoff TV movie Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure starring Tisdale. The continuing popularity of the franchise also led to the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, which also gave us Olivia Rodrigo.

But White's only here for the Troy Bolton of it all.

"I'll only watch the ones that Zac is a part of," The Bear star said. "That's a part of the deal. But yeah, I'd be up for that, raising money."

Raising money and interlacing fingers. Two great causes.

The Iron Claw is in theaters now.

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