Find out what was the premonition that Kenny Ortega, director of the ‘High School Musical’ trilogy, had during the recordings of the first movie
“High School Musical” can be considered as one of the most successful franchises released by Disney Channel. The trilogy, starring Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Bleu Corbin and Monique Colemanaccompanies a group of teenagers in their last high school years.
Directed from Kenny Ortegathe movies were so successful that they received two spin-offs: the movie “The Fabulous Adventure of Sharpay” (2011), focused on the life of the character Sharpay after leaving school, and the series “High School Musical: The Series: The Musical” (2019-2023), which portrays the lives of students from East High School, where the original feature films were recorded.
In addition to the productions being lovingly remembered by fans to this day, the cast and the production team are also always remembering the franchise on their social networks and interviews. In a recent exclusive conversation with People, for example, Ortega He recalled a “premonition” he had when they recorded one of the most iconic scenes of the first movie: the song “We Are All On This Together”.
At the time, the director commented that he has numerous amazing memories of the recordings of “High School Musical”, but that the most memorable happened in the first movie, when everything was ready to record the final scene and, when observing the scenery, the cast and the dancers gathered, had the feeling that the feature would play many people.
“We were filming High School Musical 1, and we were filming the end, we are all in this together. And we had all these cameras linked, the cast and the dancers, and I looked at the gym and said, ‘Dude, if Disney is doing the work we are doing here, it will play a lot of people,'” recalled the filmmaker.
Kenny He kept saying, “I took the cast, put them in a circle and said, ‘Get ready. I think their lives will change.’ And they remember that moment, just like me. [Eu] I just had this premonition, this feeling that we were plotting something that was going to make a difference. ”
In fact, the life of the cast really changed after the feature films. In addition to launching many actors to the star, the trilogy has been consecrated as some of the most successful original productions in the history of Disney Channel. “High School Musical 3: Graduation Year” (2008), for example, remained for years as the movie music with the biggest revenue on its debut weekend, being outdated only in 2012 with “Les Miserables”.
Source: Recreio
