14 DAY TRIAL // Vanessa Hudgens, now seen in theaters in Zack Snyder’s “Sucker Punch,” is tired of being considered the same Disney girl she was a few years back. In fact, she says in a new interview with the LA Times, she finds fans of her work from back then pretty obnoxious.
Hudgens, who’s made plenty of headlines in the past few years for a series of events not necessarily related to her professional life, like the leak of personal photos and her romance with co-star Zac Efron, stresses the need for people to just move on.
Instead of dwelling on the present, people keep turning their attention back to the past, and that’s just selfish of them, she says.
“Teenagers come up to me and are obnoxious about the whole thing, like, ‘Oh my God, you’re that girl! You’re that girl from the Disney Channel.’ And I’m like, ‘I was that girl’,” Hudgens says in the interview.
The same goes for her relationship with Efron, with whom she appeared in Disney’s “High School Musical” series and films.
She once dated him, but that’s not to say it’s ok for people to keep referring to her as “Efron’s girlfriend” or “Efron’s ex,” or, for that matter, to keep bringing it up when speaking to her.
Another thing Vanessa would like to leave behind her: the several photo scandals in which she was involved, one of them when she was still a Disney girl with a squeaky clean image.
“It’s just silly because I’m a very present person, and that’s the thing that has been so in the past. The fact that somebody keeps bringing up the past is just selfish. I mean, it sucks,” she says.
“I already released a statement the first time it happened. It’s just unfortunate that it keeps reminding people about the past and not the present,” Vanessa adds.
As much as she’s trying to prove that Disney, those leaked pics and Efron is not what defines her, there will always be those who say that these are basically the only things she’s famous for in the first place.
In all fairness, film critics didn’t see her most recent non-Disney releases with kind eyes: “Beastly” was panned, while her role in “Sucker Punch” was also much derided.
For the full interview with Vanessa Hudgens for LA Times, please refer here.