Although it was already known that High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens had signed up for Zach Synder’s (200, Watchmen) new movie, Sucker Punch, she’s recently been talking about how the role casts her as a 1950s hooker called Blondie – which might come a bit of a shock for fans who lived her as the squeaky Gabriella Montez in High School Musical (then again, many of those fans will probably have seen the nudey pictures of the Internet, so perhaps they won’t be that surprised).
In an article in Metro Hudgens is quoted as saying, “I’m playing a character named Blondie and it’s set in a brothel in the 1950s, so there’s not a whole lot of clothes. It’ll be gun training, stunts, fighting and all that craziness. I can’t wait. I’m so excited. I’ve wanted to do an action film for a while… It will be somewhat different with the content and a few more foul words but that’s the biggest difference.’
Although that sounds like the sort of quote where the journalist is paraphrasing and expanding on what was actually said, it hasn’t stopped a lot of people speculating that she’ll appear nude in Sucker Punch. However her publicist has now stepped forward to say that while she’ll be dressed sexily in the movie and “less than what she would normally wear”, she won’t actually be stripping in the flick.
However with Zach Snyder’s penchant for sex and violence, it’ll definitely be a very different sort of role to what we’ve seen from her before and a long way from the innocence of the High School Musical film. The film itself sees a young girl in a mental asylum who’s trying to escape into an imaginary world.