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"HSM" Star Monique Coleman Talks Corbin Bleu's Help Through Miscarriage
Monique Coleman didn't ever consciousness similar she and her High School Musical household were successful this together.
The actress, who played Taylor McKessie successful each 3 installments of the fashionable Disney Channel trilogy, precocious opened up astir her days arsenic the fictional East High student.
Although she experienced large highs arsenic a quality successful the franchise, determination was 1 setback with the web erstwhile it came to the 3rd movie that she described arsenic a signifier of "heartbreak."
"Disney truly broke my bosom due to the fact that erstwhile I got to the 3rd movie, successful truthful galore ways, I truly championed the film," she told chap Disney alum Christy Carlson Romano during the Dec. 13 occurrence of her Vulnerable podcast. "I truly ever spoke truthful positively, and I was a achromatic miss playing the smartest miss successful schoolhouse which was a precise large woody astatine that time. And erstwhile it came to promoting the 3rd movie, I wasn't invited connected the tour."
She continued, "And they said thing astir determination not being capable country connected the plane, and they lone invited Zac [Efron], Vanessa [Hudgens], Ashley [Tisdale], and Corbin [Bleu], and Lucas [Grabeel] and I weren't included."
As Monique shared, the acquisition affected her much than she realized astatine the time.
"That heartbreak truly deed maine precise profoundly and did origin a spot of a slump due to the fact that it helped maine to admit that I was overly identifying with what I was doing and not who I was," she said. "And that was what led maine to instrumentality that measurement and say, ‘Maybe this is my 5 minutes of fame. Maybe this is it successful immoderate way. And if that is the case, past what americium I going to bash with it.'"
The Christmas Dance Reunion prima went connected to explicate she came to the realization she wasn't going to "feel reduced to Taylor McKessie," adding that her main extremity past became to amusement different radical that nary substance what, "your dreams are besides possible."
And contempt the bump successful the road, Monique, who precocious teased her cameo successful play four of the spinoff, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, said the doorway is inactive unfastened for opportunities with the web successful the future.
"I would beryllium truthful unfastened to moving with Disney again," she noted. "Disney is my alma mater, I archer them each the time, I'd similar to travel home. Especially with Disney plus, there's truthful overmuch much opportunity...I would perfectly beryllium truthful unfastened to a amusement connected Disney. That would beryllium precise cool."
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