Sometimes I just have to share

Jill is all to familiar with this concept, along with Chay to a lesser extent, and our good pal Peggy too. I see something or read something and I text them that very instant with a super long text to explain how much I am excited. Well, as you can imagine, and have witnessed, the internet is FLOODED with interviews and articles featuring and talking about the HSM3 cast and movie. And with all 10 wildcats on google alerts, my inbox is flooded with articles, most of which, I ignore. However last night, when I got one for Ryne with an excerpt talking about how he and Chris were like brothers, I had to read it. And I did not regret it! Lots and lots of good quotes here, so I will let you read it. Enjoy!

Lucas Grabeel reprised his role as Sharpay’s enigmatic brother Ryan Evans. “He’s a show-stealer,” says Ortega of Grabeel’s character. “It’s always been Sharpay’s show and in this film, Ryan explodes onto the screen. Ryan really blossoms and
you get a greater sense of him than ever before.”

According to Grabeel, his onscreen brother-sister relationship has become an off-screen reality.

“We’re a true brother and sister duo and it’s been great to have that. There’s an energy between us, we bounce off each other really well.”

“Lucas is absolutely wonderful, a great all-around actor, dancer and singer,” says Borden. “He’s created a character that is nothing like him in real life. Lucas is gentle, laid back and a really sweet guy. On screen, he’s hysterical.” Adds Ortega, “He’s a wonderful improvisational actor as well as a wonderful studied actor
and technician. He has some great dance numbers in ‘HSM3’ and he takes it to the edge.”

Corbin Bleu brings his character’s love of basketball to the big screen. “Chad’s a typical jock,” says Bleu. “He lives, eats and breathes basketball. He loves being around his friends, he loves being around Troy, and he has a nice girlfriend in Taylor.”

“Chad Danforth is a character I am very close to as a writer, because I grew up in a gym,” says Barsocchini. “I spent countless hours in smelly gym socks shooting baskets. Chad is not a conflicted character. He’s a guy who loves playing basketball and he wants to play in college.”

According to Barsocchini, Chad’s dilemma comes when Troy Bolton begins to question his own future. “Chad’s defined his own life by his experience with his best friend.”
Adds Bleu, “This movie explores friendship and camaraderie, the bond that’s been built between these two brothers and how it’s changing. It’s the joy in seeing a friend move on and do what he wants to do, and at the same time the sadness of losing a partner.”

Borden credits the actor. “Corbin is an amazing athletic dancer. He’s also a great actor.” Adds Ortega, “He prides himself on being prepared. Corbin works as hard as anybody I’ve ever known. He’ll take one step and he’ll just drill it until he feels absolutely 100 percent about it. Corbin came up with the idea of Chad walking around with a basketball under his arm. He slept with that basketball. He didn’t let that basketball out of his sight until he felt that he owned it.”

Monique Coleman returns as Taylor McKessie. “For ‘Senior Year,’ Taylor has a lot more
responsibility—student body president and yearbook editor—which I think is very fitting and a pretty natural progression for this character,” says Coleman. “She’s really in her element. She has been ready to graduate since she started school; she’s ready to run the world.”

But in “HSM3,” Coleman’s character adds girlfriend to her resume. “It’s interesting because in the previous movies, Taylor has been strictly independent. It’s great to see her enhanced by the fact that she just adores Chad Danforth,” giggles
Coleman. “Still, I think that it’s important for young girls to see a character whose strength isn’t about her relationship with a boy.”

Barsocchini says Taylor has always known what she wants and that doesn’t change in “HSM3.” “Taylor, like Chad, is not a conflicted character,” says the writer. “She sees no boundaries to what she can achieve and she’s willing to do the work. We’ve had thousands of letters from parents that say ‘thank you’ for having a character who does her homework. She’s got her eye on the prize.”

“I feel like what people see on-screen is magic and it comes from the fact that Kenny will not settle for just singing and dancing and acting,” says Coleman. “We are required to tell a story and be truthful about these kids’ lives.”

Ortega returns the compliment. “Monique is like the candle in the dark,” he says. “She never lets us fail ourselves as a team, a family, a group, a posse, a franchise.”

Actress Olesya Rulin once again brings to life Kelsi Nielsen, who is the composer of the Spring Musical called “Senior Year.” Says Rulin, “For me, it’s been a pleasure to see Kelsi change from the first movie, in which she’s shy, very quiet and almost unnoticed—to the second movie, in which she’s not only made friends, but she’s a little bit more comfortable with herself. Now, in ‘HSM3,’ Kelsi’s really come out of her shell.”

Chris Warren Jr. and Ryne Sanborn return to leave their legacy as champion Wildcats
basketball teammates Zeke Baylor and Jason Cross.

“Zeke is still a jock who likes to bake and he’s still in love with Sharpay,” says Warren.

In the story, Zeke gets to go to the prom with Sharpay, so Warren had to learn how to waltz with Ashley Tisdale—much to the delight of their castmates. Says Hudgens, “Ashley and Chris have this brother-sister, love-hate relationship and they mess around with each other.

Watching them dancing together was hysterical, like an old married couple.”
Warren also developed a close sibling-like relationship with his basketball co-star Ryne Sanborn. “We became really good friends from the beginning because neither of us was a dancer. We both came from playing sports. We had to put in extra time rehearsing.”

KayCee Stroh’s pop-lock brainiac Martha Cox becomes a Wildcat cheerleader for the big
screen. “I’m just so excited for Martha because throughout each movie, she’s stepped out of her comfort zone a little bit more,” says Stroh. “In the first, she’s a shy little brainiac who secretly loves to dance. In the second, you see her coming out of her shell. Now, in the third she is head cheerleader. I feel it’s a great message—if you want to step out of your box and change, you can.”

Bart Johnson and Alyson Reed reprise their roles as Coach Jack Bolton and Ms. Darbus.
Johnson enjoys the line his character has to walk. “It’s an interesting dynamic that Coach Bolton has because he’s not just a hardnosed coach and he’s not just a loving dad. He’s trying to balance between the two.”

Reed is thrilled to be a part of the big screen extravaganza. “We have a full orchestra—a real youth orchestra. We also have a real youth choir singing,” she says. “And it’s all going to be 40 feet tall. It’s unbelievable.”

Also returning are Leslie Wing Pomeroy as Mrs. Bolton, Socorro Herrera as Mrs. Montez, Robert Curtis Brown and Jessica Tuck as Mr. and Mrs. Evans, and Joey Miyashima as school principal Matsui.

source: Movie-details Blog