"Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time"
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The Janet-and-Michael reference does a lot of work. It’s a knowingly messy, tabloid-flavored metaphor that signals she’s speaking in the language celebrity culture taught us: resemblance, doubles, rumors, manufactured personas. By invoking a sibling pair whose public images were relentlessly scrutinized and mythologized, Fox nods to the way fame makes people feel both overexposed and unreal. “We’re not actually here” isn’t existential philosophy so much as a sly comment on how celebrity becomes an avatar, a set of interchangeable surfaces.
The wig-and-dress punchline flips gender performance into the mechanism of the hoax, poking at how Hollywood already treats identity as styling. If Efron can “be” her with a quick costume swap, then maybe the whole system is drag: roles, branding, desirability, all of it. Calling it “one of the greatest mysteries” finishes the bit by inflating nonsense to epic importance, a neat parody of the culture machine that treats celebrity trivia like religion.
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Fox, Megan. (2026, January 14). Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/zac-efron-is-my-obsession-were-the-same-person-17122/
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Fox, Megan. "Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/zac-efron-is-my-obsession-were-the-same-person-17122/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/zac-efron-is-my-obsession-were-the-same-person-17122/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.







