Vanessa Hudgens has extra than simply being a first-time mother on her thoughts, together with not one however two new movies.
Speaking with ET’s Denny Directo alongside her French Lady co-stars Zach Braff and Evelyne Brochu, the 35-year-old actress opened up about their new film and her return as weapons skilled Kelly in Will Smith and Martin Lawrence‘s Dangerous Boys 4.
“I mean, it’s just like such a classic beloved story and it’s really neat being able to go on this journey with them and have so much time go by,” she mentioned of the brand new installment of the Dangerous Boys franchise. “We really leaned into the fact that they are a bit older and things changing and they’re not necessarily operating at the speed they once knew.”
Hudgens first made her debut within the franchise in 2020’s Dangerous Boys for Life. She not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on the forthcoming installment, which filmed in Miami. Other than Lawrence, Smith and the Excessive Faculty Musical alum, the movie additionally stars Starvation Video games actor Alexander Ludwig and Improbable 4‘s Ioan Gruffudd.
“It’s fun to be around and I think there’s like a lot of belly laughs and [it’s] action-packed,” the actress mentioned. “It’s going to be a great movie.”
As for her different new venture, Hudgens mentioned she had simply as a lot enjoyable filming French Lady. This one, nevertheless, required her to make use of extra than simply her humorous bone as she warmed up her vocal cords to sing practically twenty years for the reason that Disney Channel film that put her on the map got here out.
“Your entire time studying the script from the leap, I used to be simply cracking up. I feel it was so hilarious. And this musical quantity was positively a kind of moments,” she said. “Me, Nick [Wright] and James [Woods] — our administrators — talked it by means of and located this candy spot of it being, you already know, good and bold, however very cringe. And it made me cringe personally once I watched it, however all within the identify of comedy.”
Braff, 48, said that while the entire time filming with Hudgens and Brochu was delightful, the day that they filmed the musical number had to have been one of his favorites.
“We had a lot of laughs that day. Vanessa was so funny,” the Scrubs alum mentioned.
French Lady facilities on Gordon Kinski (Braff), a highschool instructor from New York who follows his French-Canadian girlfriend (Brochu) to her hometown of Quebec Metropolis, the place she is chasing her goals of turning into a chef beneath the tutelage of Ruby Collins (Hudgens).
Watch the trailer for French Lady within the participant under:
French Lady premieres in theaters on March 15.
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