Vaness Hudgens is “Turning Into a Woman”

Vanessa Hudgens is never without a bit of controversy. The 22-year-old High School Musical star has found herself in hot water with leaked private photos and is under constant scrutiny regarding her personal life and relationships. The actress sat down with PopcornBiz to talk maturity, her future singing career, her new movie Sucker Punch and her overall well-being.

“I was so infamously known for ‘High School Musical’ and playing Gabrielle and I think she was a really impacting character. She was somebody that even I would look up to. So when you see someone like that and you get so used to it, that’s all you can see. For some people, if that’s how they want to keep thinking of me I’m totally OK with that because I think she’s a great character. I feel like I am who I am. I am turning into a woman and people will see that with this movie, so I’m like, ‘Just wait.’”

On Singing
“It’s in my veins. It’s who I am. I’m singing every day, constantly. It’s just something that’s comforting to me. I love the way that you can tell stories through music. It’s just such an escape, and such a happy get away that I feel that I try to live through.”

On Controversies & Her Well-Being
“I would say that I’m very, very content and very, very happy. I think that people can make problems for themselves regardless of where you are in your personal life or in your career. But I feel I’ve been working on trying to just be content and just trying to be happy. I think that yoga helps me a lot and kept sane physically and mentally, and I feel that through all the work that I’ve done and the people that I’ve met I’ve grown to be able to just be really comfortable in who I am. And I couldn’t be happier about it.”

On Her Sucker Punch Costume
“My fighting costume was basically a leotard made of rubber that was so skin tight that every time I zipped it up I had to suck in everything that I had. Before I came in to ‘Sucker Punch,’ I actually put on a little weight for the character before and then I realized that I had to wear these skimpy costumes and so I was like, ‘It’s hustle time! It’s go time!’ It’s definitely bulked me, up but I love it. I love when a woman is cut up and you can tell that she’s in shape.[...]The corsets, the whole wardrobe, was quite restricting, but it’s fun because I love fashion and it’s a way of expressing yourself, and I got to express myself in ways that I could never do outside of the film.”