Tell Us about it. Vanessa Hudgens shared with Us Weekly and other journalists at a Television Critics Association panel ultimate month how she envisioned her role as Betty Rizzo in Fox’s Grease: Live, and remained true to form right through the Sunday, January 31, production.

“I honestly can’t bear in mind the primary time I saw Grease,” the previous Disney star, 27, said on January 15. “I believe like Grease has simply always been a a part of my lifestyles. It’s at all times been on in my house. I will be able to’t be mindful my life earlier than Grease, almost.”

The role of Rizzo was once immortalized in 1978 by way of actress Stockard Channing, and her tough-as-nails external held special meaning for Hudgens on Sunday night. The actress’ father, Gregory, gave up the ghost from degree IV most cancers just at some point earlier than the three-hour show debuted on Fox.

At the TCAs ultimate month, the High School Musical celebrity shared her present-day interpretation of the nature. “I've in point of fact grown to like her. She’s a badass,” Hudgens elaborated. “She has a truly hard shell, but inside she’s got a gentle center — however she’s not going to let someone see it except she needs them to.”

That included how Hudgens viewed Rizzo’s pregnancy scare, a debatable plot point again when the unique musical debuted on Broadway in 1971. 

“Rizzo still thinks she gets pregnant,” the actress said. “I believe that’s the object that’s so great about playing Rizzo. Even regardless that Grease does have this a laugh lightheartedness about it, there’s some actual stuff that’s occurring. And Rizzo does nonetheless have a being pregnant scare, and that’s one thing that I feel roots her into this kind of, like, darker angle that she has. So I think like it’s essential to Rizzo, and it’s nonetheless there.”

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