The High School Musical star underwent a dramatic transformation to play Apple Bailey in the film, hacking off her hair and sporting fake piercings. She also forced herself to feel ""insecure"" for three months during the shoot - but her intense preparations left her struggling to regain her confidence when the cameras stopped rolling.
Hudgens tells You magazine, ""Apple is a really insecure character, so I was basically telling myself I was a piece of s**t for three months and it really affected me.
""After filming was finished, it took me a long time to get out of that way of thinking. I completely lost myself for a while
Veteran actor Bobby Cannavale has joined the cast of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, and will become a regular in the upcoming third season.
Cannavale will play Gyp Rosetti, a gangster who poses a threat to Nucky (Steve Buscemi), on the Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe-winning series about Prohibition-era Atlantic City.
Cannavale himself, no stranger to TV, won an Emmy for his role on Will & Grace in 2005 and recently shot a soon-to-air guest stint on Showtime's Nurse Jackie. As for his big-screen career, he'll next be seen in Lovelace, which you might've heard of recently.
FX's highest-rated series ever, Sons of Anarchy, has been renewed for at least two more seasons.
The news -- which is unsurprising, given the series' massive viewership -- comes as creator Kurt Sutter signs an overall deal with Fox TV and FX Productions, which means Anarchy and Sutter will stay put for the foreseeable future, AND Sutter will be able to develop more TV content for FX and its parent company.
The two-season renewal takes Anarchy through season 6, and it has always been assumed by Sutter and those close to him that the infamously Emmy-snubbed series would end after seven seasons.
Sutter had this to say on Friday to The Hollywood Reporter: "If there’s more story to be told after seven seasons and if financially it’s still a feasible endeavor, I’m definitely open to doing more."
