Ashley Tisdale Shares About High School Musical 3

I understand what you’re saying but at this moment in Hollywood I doubt that they will be offered anything but teenage roles. When you look at most movies the teenagers are played by people in their 20’s because there are laws about what teens under seventeen are allowed to do. I’m sure all the cast will have success after HSM but you have to understand that they will probally take roles that you see as not making progress because as I stated before there are thousands of actor vying for the same roles. A working actor will sometimes have to take a lesser role.Once they have achieved universal fame then they can pick and choose roles.

Yep I agree teenage roles is what the HSM cast will most likely be playing (minus maybe Monique, considering she is a few years older) BUT what I’m saying is that you can take a challenging teenage role. For instance, Vanessa’s role as Sa5m - who is a teenager in high school - but she has a stutter, which means the role will be challenging and will prove her acting ability, much more so than the character of Gabriella.

People like Ashley have been able to prove themself more, as Karen said, because playing the mean girl has more depth to it than simply playing an average teenage girl, who is nice to people - which is what the majority of teenage girls are.

#32 So you know Zac personally do you? You know for a fact that this is all about the money for him? That he feels no gratitude towards the fanbase that paved the way for all the opportunities he’s recieved? If the answer to any or all of these questions is “No” then I respectfully suggest that you refrain from “telling” us anything.

I have to say I question this $3 million business. This movie is budget at $13 million and I calculated one time that if you take away Zac’s $3 million dollar paycheck that leaves $10 million dollars then figure in the raises for Vanessa and Ashley and I’m sure for Corbin, Lucas, Monique and the rest of the Wildcats, what with is a budget that completely went to paying the cast. With virtually nothing left over for the other expenses that go into moviemaking. So as I say I really question that figure.

Also I’m tired of this “riding his coat tails” nonsense. All of the Wildcats have done their own thing since the first movie and have met with some successon on their OWN. Nobody is riding anybody’s coat tails. NOBODY.

Anyway to bring this back to Ashley since she’s the subject this thread I found the interview interesting. She seems to be really gounded and has a good head on her shoulders. Like Malia I found it curious that we’re just weeks from the start of filming and she hasn’t the script yet. That was probably just a way to avoid answering any detailed follow-up questions.

The real difference between actors of the past and now is that now there are so many of them and unfortunately they are a dime adozen. The only ones who will truly survive are those with real talent and ability to take it to the next level. Time will tell who of this gang are really talented enough to make it in the grown-up world where celebrity does not equate with talent.

Karen as a John Travolta fan, you need to get your facts straight. He has had enormous success in many roles and chose to remove himself from Hollywood and only do role he deemed challenging and appropriate. That’s what REAL stars have the liberty to do. I believe his passion for his family and the three jets he has parked in his back yard qualify him as a huge success……..I’m just saying.

Naomi
I agree with you, I think that she did a fantatsic job s Gabi, actually, I think she’ve done a fantastic job in every movie/project she have done, she have already proven that she can poytrait characters that are funny, serious, smart, kind, girly, heck, she even did a lot of cool stunts in ‘Thunderbirds’ so she can do that as well.
I also and espcaually find it funny how many bash her and call her bad names and then say that she doesn’t have any talents, I mean, Gabriella is far from any of those words they call her, so why do they claim that she can’t act?

Billie
I think that what Karen, and I, meant when we mentioned John Travolta is that it took him a while to step out of the ‘hot guy’ roles and take on more grown-up roles, that’s it, and that he’s a great example, along with like Leo DiCaprio that it’s possible but it’s hard and it’s easy to give up, and we’re not implaying that he didn’t do other roles, I just meant that with ‘Pulp Fiction’ he played a new kind of role that was so far away from the characters we’re used to see him play.

#57 Actually Karen’s right about John Travalota has slipped under the radar more then once in his career. This of course was before his marriage to Kelly Preston and the three jets. He was superhot post “Grease” and “Saturday Night Fever” then he hit a real dry spell in the mid-eighties. This continued until 1989 when he landed “Look Who’s Talking” which was followed by two lackluster sequels and he looked like he was headed back toward washed up hunk territory.

Then Quentin Tarantino cast him in “Pulp Fiction” which landed him an Oscar nomination and he’s been smart (with a few exceptions like any actor he’s made some questionable choices like “Battleground: Earth” and “The Punisher”) and working steady over the past 14 years since that movie came out. But is not untrue or unfair to say he’s had his share of peaks and valleys in his career, he would be the first to admit it.

#57–billie:

I did have my facts straight before posting what I did about John Travolta. I happen to be John’s age and I watched him and loved him on Welcome Back Kotter. I watched his career from day one so I know exactly what he did and didn’t do. And I said I commend him for what he accomplished. Because as Troy said he has has more than one peak and valley. I never once said he was not a success. But I wanted to point out that any actor who is a hottie and makes a few blunders in movie choices can be quickly forgotten for the next hottie of the hour. But he came back after it looked like his time in the limelight had dimmed and that is when he got his jets, etc.

Thanks, Troy and erica.

Yeyyyyy, HSM rocks n so does Ashley.

i love hsm, i love zanessa, i would love a famous and hot actor like johnny depp participating in this excellent movie

I think it may be conceivable that Ashley was aware of what the script was about, had confidence in Kenny Ortega and what had been written for her in the previous two movies, and she also had confidence in the other major actors in the movie and signed without reading the completed final script. I’m sure she knew Zac was reading the script and meeting with Kenny Ortega so maybe she thought if he was OK with the script she would be too. I have heard of many actors saying OK to a role in a movie just knowing who the director will be or who else is going to be in the movie. I know it was reported that Vanessa and Ashley had signed to do this movie quite a while before Zac signed but I also think they knew he was OK with the script and he was probably just ironing out other little details like salary and maybe a percentage of the merchandising that comes with these kinds of movies. Actually, I think all the main 10 characters in this movie should reap a little bit from the merchandising aspect. Disney cetainly made money from the HSM dolls, lunchboxes, etc. And they used these kids faces to do it. I think Zac can be smart and maybe is getting good advice from his “people”.

I think the whole Johnny Depp thing was just a joke on his part. He did an interview on “Entertainment Tonight” promoting “Sweeney Todd” and the question was asked if he would do another musical and he said he knew they were going to make “HSM3″ and maybe he could pop up as somebody’s grandfather.

Plus he’s in the middle of filming “Public Enemies” directed by Michael Mann in which he’s playing John Dillenger so I think he’s a little busy right now. But still a cameo would be cool.

Ashley!

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