Get Your Head in the Game: VANESSA HUDGENS
Magical Rewind
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4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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The star of the high school musi-CAL is here! Vanessa Hudgens joins Bart Johnson to celebrate 20 years of High School Musical!
Find out how Vanessa got the part of Gabriella, what it was like in the height of the the HSM pandemonium and what the franchise means to her today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey, Wildcats. |
| 0:06.1 | This is Bart Johnson, and you're listening to Get Your Head in the Game. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Get Your Head in the Game. |
| 0:16.5 | I am so excited for my guest today. |
| 0:20.0 | She's been a part of the high school musical franchise from the beginning. |
| 0:23.4 | You may know her as Gabriella Montes. |
| 0:25.7 | Please welcome, my friend, the lovely Vanessa Hudgens. |
| 0:29.6 | Hi. |
| 0:30.5 | Vanessa Hudgens, my goodness. |
| 0:33.2 | Well, hey, let's officially start by saying, welcome Vanessa Hudgens, 20 years. Here we are. Can you believe, bylaw, can you believe 20? It's still years. I'm like, I'm too young. I'm too young to that. No. You're still in your 20s. How could it be 20 years? Yeah, exactly. That's, it doesn't make any sense at all. The math is not mapping. It's not math. No, there is a problem here with the math. That's crazy. It's so crazy. I was watching actually just a little bit this morning because I was so I'm so excited to talk to you because, you know, people ask me all the time. Who's your favorite? You worked with who's your favorite and i was like well i mean i love all my stuff was with zach like i told |
| 1:14.7 | most of my scenes were zach and i used to me but let me tell you about Vanessa |
| 1:19.2 | she's just my favorite like you were always you were so amazing always on set even you were just |
| 1:25.5 | you were such a baby you're so young how old were you |
| 1:28.2 | I was like 16 when we did the first one 16 years old so crazy but it's been um you know it's |
| 1:37.8 | been 20 years and I know like everybody wants you to revisit high school music all the time |
| 1:42.6 | because it means so much to them so thank you so much for wanting to do this. And, you know, for you anything. Ah, you're the best. Well, you know, it's, it's been 20 years. And I think it's like, it's a good time. Anytime there's a year with the zero on the end, it's a good time to like reflect and you know give back to the fans that have |
| 2:01.1 | been so good to us. |
| 2:03.0 | Totally. The entire way and the new fans that keep on hopping on for the journey. |
| 2:08.0 | Which is crazy, right? Do you see little kids recognizing you and so excited as you? |
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