Vanessa Hudgens recently sat down with the Montreal Gazette to chat about her upcoming role in the fantasy romance, Beastly.
The 20-year-old actress dished to the paper on why the role spoke to her, why she wouldn’t have taken the part and living every girl’s dream. Check it:
On the appeal of Beastly: “I just thought it was magical. Every girl wants to be a princess and Beauty and the Beast is a classic tale of a princess and a prince. Just the fact that it was going to be told in a way that was modern and edgy and sexy, that was very appealing. It wasn’t something that was too far away from my target audience, but it is, in a way, a step to building new fans. It does reach out to an older group. But I’m trying to take it slow and not do anything too drastic.”
On why she chose to take the role of Lindy Taylor: “With High School Musical, I adore my character and it’s so much fun. But (Beastly) is so much older and so much edgier, and it deals with tough situations, like my dad being a drug addict, and we really get to see people fall in love hard. The stakes are very high. It’s just sexy.”
On not taking the part if boyfriend Zac Efron had been the Beast: “Just because I feel we’re growing up and we want to be able to differentiate ourselves as actors. Not that I don’t want to do something with him eventually. But it’s just - we did our thing [High School Musical movies] together and we’re just going to let that be for the moment.”
