Bart Johnson Interview On ‘High School Musical,’ Zac Efron

Bart Johnson plays a high school coach and the father of Zac Efron‘s character in the teen sensation High School Musical. Johnson had doubts about the potential of the movie. “It was shocking. My agent didn’t want me to do this film,” Johnson told Uinterview exclusively. “ ’It’s a little Disney film. The kids are going to be the stars.’ ”

These days, Johnson is working on a film of his own — Deep in Barja, which he wrote, directed and starred in. His other projects include a documentary series that follows his two brothers on a road trip 6 Bucks and a Bottle of Water. Johnson still feels the pinch of working the high school crew. “I never felt so old,” he told Uinterview. “They dressed me in old-guy clothes and gave me the old-guy haircut.”