Vanessa Hudgens Reacts to ‘Excessive Faculty Musical’ Go to, Zac’s Journey

As soon as a Wildcat, at all times a Wildcat. Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron turned heads once they each visited the Excessive Faculty Musical filming location one month aside — and the actress is lastly opening up concerning the nature of her journey.

“My boyfriend was enjoying in Salt Lake [City] — he’s a baseball participant,” Hudgens, 33, informed Leisure Weekly on Friday, October 21, referring to associate Cole Tucker. “So, he was on the discipline [during the game] and I had rented a automobile and I used to be like, ‘I wish to go test it out and take some photos for outdated time’s sake.’”

The Princess Swap star made headlines earlier this 12 months, when she visited Salt Lake Excessive Faculty East, the real-life filming location for the Excessive Faculty Musical franchise.

“Do you keep in mind in kindergarten the way you’d meet a child and know nothing about them, then 10 seconds later you’re enjoying such as you’re finest associates since you didn’t must be something however your self?” Hudgens captioned a June 26 Instagram video of herself flashing a peace register entrance of the tutorial constructing, referring to her character’s line from the movie. An instrumental model of “Breaking Free” performed within the background.

The California native rose to fame enjoying prodigy Gabriella Montez in Excessive Faculty Musical (2006), Excessive Faculty Musical 2 (2007) and Excessive Faculty Musical 3: Senior Yr (2008). Within the authentic DCOM flick, Hudgens’ Gabriella sparked a reference to Troy Bolton (performed by Efron) throughout winter break. To the pair’s shock, Gabriella and her mother had moved to his native Albuquerque, New Mexico, the next semester — and enrolled her on the identical faculty: East Excessive. The movie franchise additionally starred Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Monique Coleman and Corbin Bleu.

Hudgens isn’t the one HSM veteran to fondly look again at her Disney Channel tenure. The Baywatch actor, 35, made an sudden pilgrimage to East Excessive in July — one month after his ex-girlfriend’s go to.

“Don’t you… Neglect about me ✊🏼,” Efron — who dated the Second Act star between 2006 and 2010 — captioned an Instagram snap of himself posing together with his fist within the air a la The Breakfast Membership.

Whereas the twosome performed coy about their summer season holidays to Utah, Hudgens has since weighed in on the hypothesis that the pair would possibly reunite for a cameo on Excessive Faculty Musical: The Musical: The Collection.

“What can I say? I’m a trendsetter,” the Broadway veteran joked to EW about inspiring her former beau, earlier than opening up a couple of cameo chance. “I don’t know. We go away it as much as destiny. Go away it as much as the gods.”

Whereas each Hudgens and the Hairspray actor haven’t confirmed whether or not they’ll return for HSMTMTS season 4 and its fictional reunion film, a number of of their costars are set to return again. Disney+, the house for the spinoff collection, confirmed final month that KayCee Stroh, Bart Johnson, Alyson Reed, Bleu, 33, Coleman, 41, and Grabeel, 37, would have particular cameos on the sitcom.