{"id":84553,"date":"2025-10-19T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/84553\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T10:51:08","slug":"vanessa-hudgens-makes-rare-comments-on-early-chemistry-with-ex-high-school-musical-co-star-zac-efron-high-school-musical-vanessa-hudgens-zac-efron-celebrity-news-and-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/84553\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Hudgens Makes Rare Comments on Early Chemistry With Ex & \u2018High School Musical\u2019 Co-Star Zac Efron | High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanessa Hudgens<\/a> is opening up about her audition process for High School Musical<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old actress booked the leading female role of Gabriella Montez in the trilogy, which became quite the juggernaut for Disney. <\/p>\n

While reminiscing with former co-star Bart Johnson<\/a> on a recent episode of the Magical Rewind podcast<\/a>, Vanessa dished on her chemistry with eventual co-star Zac Efron<\/a>, whom she ended up dating for several years.<\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI was paired with this boy, and I was like, \u2018Oh my god, he\u2019s so cute,\u2019\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd so like the chemistry was so real.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I was 15. I had done a pilot for Disney Channel called The Bus Life with Keke Palmer<\/a>. It didn\u2019t get picked up, and I had auditioned for Disney a bunch,\u201d Vanessa shared. \u201cI was like, \u2018It\u2019s never gonna happen for me.\u2019 And this audition came up for High School Musical, and I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t wanna go. I\u2019m not gonna get it.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI went in begrudgingly and did the audition. It was a normal audition,\u201d she added. \u201cI don\u2019t even remember what I sang\u2026I think maybe I sang \u2018Angels\u2019 by Jessica Simpson<\/a> or \u2018Reflection\u2019 from Mulan and did one of the scenes and then ended up getting a callback.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the process continued, she recalled the actors \u201cgot mixed and matched with a bunch of people.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI got mixed up and I think I got put with Zac [Efron] right away,\u201d Vanessa said. <\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Zac did the scene together. I sang with him. I feel like he got paired up with somebody else as well. I don\u2019t know. It all seems like such a blur,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd then I feel like a few weeks after that, I got the final callback, and it was, like, a final pairing where there was one other girl there for Gabriella, one other guy there for Troy, and we, like, swapped, mixed and matched. And that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI got the call, and they were like, \u2018We want you to do it.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh my god. It\u2019s finally happening!\u2019\u201d Vanessa said. <\/p>\n

If you missed it, one star thought Vanessa resented them <\/a>on the High School Musical concert tour\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanessa Hudgens is opening up about her audition process for High School Musical! The 36-year-old actress booked the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-84553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}