“Something I really pride myself in is breaking out of my comfort zone and I’m always up for a challenge,” she said of her choice of roles. 'We're all in this together': Vanessa Hudgens sings to 'High School Musical' track in first TikTok video.Since her breakthrough role in the 2006 film, Hudgens has had no shortage of big-screen projects, often juggling disparate genres from drama, comedy, musical, to action. That project opened up so many doors for me and I’ll always be grateful for that,” she added. It allows me to reminisce a bit and connect to my younger self. “I hear a ‘High School Musical’ reference multiple times a week!” Hudgens told ABS-CBN News via e-mail in January last year. Hudgens’ role as Gabriella Montez opposite Zac Efron’s Troy Bolton made a tremendous impact on Gen-Zs and millennials, who still use “High School Musical” references up to this day. The more that we can share, the more we can lift each other up.” “I feel like that’s such a relatable story to so many women all over the world. You have not learned from your past mistakes. To dream that you are running away from school means that you are not being receptive to new ideas and viewpoints. Or perhaps there is a new lesson that you need to learn. How Vanessa Hudgens feels about the constant ‘High School Musical’ references To dream that you are at a new school means that you are feeling out of place in some situation.And my father was a firefighter, so he was gone for a week and home for a week,” Hudgens narrated. “There are so many different stories that need to be told so that we are exposed to them and can have more empathy towards different people,” she added.Īccording to Hudgens, she hopes her mother would soon write a book about her life story which eventually can be adapted into a film.Ī post shared by 🔮Vanessa Hudgens🔮 an immigrant, coming into the States and not knowing anyone, I can’t even imagine how difficult and challenging that is and what challenges she faced as a woman. It’s so important to share all the different stories because America is a massive melting pot, world,” the actress said. “My mom is from the Philippines, and growing up, there weren’t really that many women who looked like me and my mom and my family on screen.

In an interview with Glamour UK, Hudgens, who rose to fame with Disney Channel’s “High School Musical,” stressed the importance of telling different stories in the US - like her mother who came to the America without knowing anyone. Now, we can understand, to some degree at least, why we dream about being chased or. The top five most common dreams are: Falling. Going back to school dreams rank in the top five highest of our most common dreams. Photo from Vanessa Hudgens Instagram accountĭespite playing countless roles in the entertainment industry, American actress Vanessa Hudgens is still eyeing one dream project – to have the immigrant story of her Filipina mother, Gina, made into a movie. If you’ve ever had a similar dream, trust me, you’re not alone.

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