Monique Coleman is opening up a few heartbreaking second again in her Disney days…
Fans will probably keep in mind her as Taylor McKessie from the hit High School Musical trilogy, the place she performed the fictional East High pupil in all three installments. However, opposite to the franchise’s hit track, We’re All In This Together, the 42-year-old actress simply revealed some disappointing particulars concerning her exclusion from the 2008 movie’s press tour. While showing on Christy Carlson Romano’s Vulnerable podcast Tuesday, the star emotionally defined:
“Disney really broke my heart because when I got to the third movie, in so many ways, I really championed the film. I really always spoke so positively, and I was a black girl playing the smartest girl in school which was a very big deal at that time. And when it came to promoting the third movie, I wasn’t invited on the tour.”
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Wow, not being invited regardless of pouring a lot constructive vitality into the mission alone should have been devastating, however so as to add insult to harm, it looks like she and one different actor might have been purposely singled out, as she revealed:
“And they said something about there not being enough room on the plane, and they only invited Zac [Efron], Vanessa [Hudgens], Ashley [Tisdale], and Corbin [Bleu], and Lucas [Grabeel] and I weren’t included.”
How unhappy. Like, significantly, what was responsible for that? You’re going to inform us there wasn’t sufficient room on the flight for 2 of the film’s stars?! Unlikely. The actress went on to clarify how the betrayal affected her on a private stage, confessing:
“That heartbreak really hit me very deeply and did cause a bit of a depression because it helped me to recognize that I was overly identifying with what I was doing and not who I was. And that was what led me to take that step and say, ‘Maybe this is my five minutes of fame. Maybe this is it in some way. And if that is the case, then what am I going to do with it.’”
However, a powerful need to not “feel reduced to Taylor McKessie,” helped her discover energy as soon as once more, together with her wanting to point out others that “your dreams are also possible.”
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But on the finish of the day, there appears to be no exhausting emotions, as she famous:
“I would be so open to working with Disney again. Disney is my alma mater, I tell them all the time, I’d like to come home. Especially with Disney+, there’s so much more opportunity… I would absolutely be so open to a show on Disney. That would be very cool.”
And it seems like her want has already been granted, because the Christmas Dance Reunion alum beforehand teased a “nostalgic” cameo in season 4 of the spinoff, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, promising E! News final month that “it will not disappoint.”
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