Vanessa Hudgens Plans a Career Change

Vanessa Hudgens recently told MTV that she’s planning a career change.

Following boyfriend Zac Efron’s lead, Vanessa says she plans to start steering clear of musicals and even singing in general. She says:

“I love musicals, I really do. I grew up doing them, so it’ll always have a place in my heart. At the same time, it’s nice to be able to separate the two and just be able to focus on films.”

She’s done pretty well so far with two upcoming movies that are much more grown-up, including Beastly, which will come out sometime next year. It’s a modern take on the classic Beauty and the Beast story and costars Alex Pettyfer, Mary-Kate Olsen and Neil Patrick Harris.

Her second upcoming project is Sucker Punch, which is about a girl whose abusive stepfather institutionalizes her, which causes her to retreat into a fantasy world where she eventually comes up with a plan of escape. Sucker Punch is slated for a 2011 release.

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