Cruise 'taught Efron about motorcycles'

Zac Efron has reportedly revealed that Tom Cruise once offered to teach him about motorcycles.

Speaking to Details magazine, the Charlie St. Cloud actor recounted how Cruise invited him to his home to learn about motorcycles after the pair bumped into each other in an office lobby.

When asked for his thoughts on why Cruise made the offer, he replied: "I don't know. I don't even want to know. It's just so cool that he gave a s**t, the fact that he cared at all. No one else did that."

He added: "He made so many great movies. I get the feeling that he works really, really hard. It didn't come from swagger with him. It came from dedication, hard work.

"You see it in the way he physicalises everything. You watch The Last Samurai and that's him! He's really doing that."

Efron also revealed to the magazine's September issue that he contracted poison oak following a Memorial Day backpacking trip with friends, joking that he looked "like a zombie from Dawn Of The Dead".

Charlie St. Cloud is in cinemas now.