Vanessa Hudgens: I Wanted To 'Shock People' By Starring In 'Spring Breakers'
"I want people to look at me not as that girl from High School Musical, but as an actress they admire," the 24-year-old Hudgens tells the New York Times. "With Spring Breakers I'm looking for a reaction for sure. I want to shock people." And Hudgens, who battled a nude photo leak not once but twice, is hoping the film announces she's ready for more adult roles. In one scene, her character, Candy, holds a loaded gun while James Franco, playing a drug dealer, pretends to perform fellatio on it while she has a three way with Franco and Ashley Benson (photos "Disney is a machine, and I'm grateful for it, but I feel like being part of that environment made me crave the reaction from other projects even more," adds the younger Gomez. "Creatively this is where I wanted to go." In the movie, they play two of the four bikini-clad college girls who land in trouble after robbing a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation.
Vanessa Hudgens (photos
) and Selena Gomez (photos) may be former Disney stars but the pair say being a part of the house of Mickey Mouse has made them crave for just the opposite.) in another.
March 12, 2013 | |
