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Emirates, fly better. Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 272nd episode of Awards Chatter,

The Hollywood Reporters Awards podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg,

and my guest today is a popular young actress

who first burst onto the world stage

as a teenager, playing Gabriella Monte Montes a studious good girl in the Disney

channel's high school musical trilogy comprised of TV films released in 2006 and 2007 and

a theatrically released film in 2008, and who has since proved that she deserves to remain there in projects ranging from the 2012 Dramed Spring Breakers to her 2015 Broadway debut in a revival of Gigi, to Fox's live musicals Greece live in 2016,

and most recently back in January, the mostly live rent live, Vanessa Hudgens.

Over the course of our conversation at the offices of the Hollywood reporter,

the 30-year-old and I discussed how she got started in the business and wound up cast opposite

Zach Ephron in high school musical at such a young age.

How she navigated the challenges of celebrity,

from being one half of a famous couple

at the outset of the smartphone era to having nude photos hacked and leaked to the world while she was still in her teens,

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