It’s not just teenage girls who are going gaga for Robert Pattinson and Zac Efron. The two Hollywood heartthrobs are swooning over each other! Despite the megastar wattage that lit up the Academy Awards ceremony on March 7, it was the very mention of the Twilight hunk’s name that got Zac all aflutter.

“He’s absolutely amazing,” the High School Musical hero gushed to Access Hollywood. “I think he’s making great choices. I think he’s handling it all really well, but you know, he’s a superstar. He really deserves all this.”

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And Rob, who is tight-lipped about whether he’s wooing 19-year-old co-star Kristen Stewart, is equally smitten when it comes to Zac. “He’s got more relevance than I do,” says the Remember Me star, who began crushing on Zac, 22, from the very moment they met in 2009.

“That was one of the first times I’d ever been starstruck,” Rob, 23, recalls dreamily, adding that he was expecting the 17 Again star to be just another arrogant teen idol. Thankfully, the giddy-as-a-schoolgirl Brit was pleasantly surprised. “He’s so honest and down to earth,” Rob says.