Ashley Tisdale plays the arrogant, domineering drama queen, Sharpay Evans, in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which is still drawing the teens and tweens in droves to the movie theaters.
The Disney produced film has so far earned $209.8 million worldwide as of 11/23/2008 as the film continues to captivate its young audiences.
Ashley recently dropped her blonde bombshell look for a more serious brunette style. In this video interview, she chats about working for the Disney Channel and about her friendship with co-stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, who portray Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez in the film.
Ashley also dishes about her Hollywood neighbors, the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus.
The release of High School Musical 3: Senior Year in theaters is not far off. The date to remember is October 24th in case you live on some other planet than good ol' planet Earth and were not aware of the upcoming release.
With the movie's release so near, we decided to do a release of our own of some recently discovered photos of the cast and provide a little info to boot. Most of the photos are newer, but there are a few that we simply have not published before now.
Of course, you already know that the main cast from the two previous releases will be starring in HSM3, and Disney is including 10 new songs in the film.
Zac Efron will again play Troy Bolton, Vanessa Hudgens will star as Gabriella Montez, Ashley Tisdale appears as Sharpay Evans and Lucas Grabeel plays Ryan Evans, Sharpay's brother.
All of the cast have been quoted in interviews that this release of HSM3 will be much bigger and offer many more whistles and bells than the other two productions, which were released on the Disney channel rather than in theaters, as you undoubtedly know.
To get started we have added the trailer from HSM3 just in case you have somehow missed seeing it:
And we have found many newly released photos of the cast. Below is a composite of Zac Efron when he was caught romping on the beach.
Next is Zac Efron as he will appear on the cover of Teen Vogue magazine in the October 2008 issue along with a couple of the runner up cover photos.
Then we have a couple of Vanessa:
Here are Zac and Vanessa in a few racy shots taken at the beach:
Vanessa looks especially good in that gray bikini.
Finally there are several shots from Ashley Tisdale's 23rd birthday party. Ashley was born on July 2, 1985:
20-year-old Zac Efron, the male lead in Disney’s High School Musical, High School Musical 2, and the upcoming theatrical release of High School Musical 3, was eating breakfast in a greasy diner in Tolucsa Lake, California.
"This is my favorite place to eat breakfast, because you don't see the SUVs with the blacked-out windows here," said Zac.
While hiding his celebrity behind mirrored sunglasses and a brown stocking cap, Zac discussed his strategy for success. "As long as I stay boring, I think I'll be fine."
Stay boring? Seriously?
“Yeah, seriously,” he says. “I'm going to try.”
Between bites of scrambled eggs and brown rice Zac almost apologized for his new found Hollywood success. "I've never done interviews like this before," he said. "I'm still so new to this, it's literally a one-in-a-million chance that I'm here.”
He is trying hard to be a normal 20-year-old in a town where the gossip media take no prisoners. Any tweener that has seen HSM1 and 2, which is most of them, knows that Zac Efron is no normal 20-year-old.
HSM1 and 2 are arguably the most watched made for television movies in history. The target market is the pre-teen set, and that group of kids refuses to let Zac be any kind of normal.
The term Hollywood idol doesn’t do him justice. He has become a tween heartthrob, and the tweens won’t let him forget it.
The HSM CD is the biggest selling CD of 2006, and Zac plays Troy Bolton, who acts, sings and dances his way into the hearts of his fans, although Zac was not allowed to do the actual singing in HSM1.
"I didn't even sing on the first album," he admits. "It wasn't my voice in the movie. Even though I wanted to do it."
HSM2, however, is all Zac, including the singing.
Troy is the high school jock who is romantically linked to Gabriella Montez, a brainy transfer student, played by the gorgeous Vanessa Hudgens. Ironically, Zac and Vanessa are also romantically linked in real life too.
Watch and listen to Zac in his own words in the video below.
Zac is already tiring of his role in HSM and seems to be itching to move on to other things.
"If I had to hear the High School Musical songs anymore," he confesses, "I probably would have jumped off something very tall."
Although HSM may have countless sequels, Zac said he'd "hopefully not" do many more.
Thankfully, to all of his fans, Zac is signed and primed to star in HSM3, which begins production in January, 2008.
Do you think Disney should fire Vanessa Hudgens and hire someone new for the filming of High School Musical 3? Register your vote in our totally unscientific poll.
To refresh your memory, Vanessa is that remarkably cute 19-year-old actor that starred along side Zac Efron in High School Musical 2, which has been a big hit on the Disney Channel. The tweens all seem to love it and anything else about HSM2.
Someone leaked photos of Vanessa in the altogether onto the Internet back in September. The photos were taken when she was 15 or 16-years-old, which would probably make them child pornography from a legal standpoint.
Since then, the tabloids, the Hollywood TV shows, and the tablogs or blogbloids (blogs that gossip about Hollywood stars) have been constantly circulating and re-circulating rumors that Vanessa will be fired.
So far, Disney has stuck by her, but some Hollywood insiders insist that Vanessa getting canned is only a matter of time.
Listen to Vanessa's Come Back to Me video to help keep you mellow while you vote.
It is probably time that the public weigh in on the matter, so now you have a chance to cast your votes in our poll. You get to help decide Vanessa’s fate by voting at our sister site at McCafferty‘s Pub. Results will be published on November 11th.
For more info on Vanessa and Zac Efron try this back link to McCafferty's Pub.
Vanessa Hudgens’ “High School Musical 3” career could be in trouble. OK! Magazine is reporting that they have the inside dope that Disney is going to dump Vanessa for the filming of HSM3.
Vanessa is one of the stars of “High School Musical 2,” which has been a big producer for Disney on the Disney Channel this year, and Disney is in the process of casting the sequel “High School Musical 3.”
Vanessa has been the victim of someone leaking embarrassing nude photos of her on the Internet this fall, and Disney is very sensitive to anything un-wholesome related to its productions. Previously, Disney denied that it would even consider not bringing Vanessa back.
Now, however, Disney has been quoted saying “We are still in negotiations with all of the ‘High School Musical’ stars.” That could mean that Disney may intend to announce that negotiations failed and they will replace Hudgens. The phrase “still in negotiations” is not the ringing endorsement that Disney expressed only a month ago when the first pictures of Vanessa surfaced on the Net.
A spokesperson for Vanessa denies that Disney is even considering axing the 18 year old beauty. “Totally untrue. It is an old rumor,” the rep reportedly told Access Hollywood. “OK! magazine never bothered to fact check with me but they did call Disney who said it wasn’t true, but yet OK! ran it anyway. Apparently OK! magazine was having a slow news day.”
OK! Magazine is standing by its story claiming it has the inside track.
If Disney intends to keep Vanessa, it will probably issue a statement to that effect soon to quell the latest reports in OK! Magazine. If they do not issue a more definitive denial, Vanessa’s days with HSM may be numbered.
Ashley Tisdale plays the arrogant, domineering drama queen, Sharpay Evans, in High School Musical 3: Senior Year, which is still drawing the teens and tweens in droves to the movie theaters.
