Shooting High School Musical 3: Senior Year has been a somewhat bittersweet experience for Vanessa Hudgens.

While she feels that everybody is ”stepping it up a notch” for HSM3, Hudgens is saddened that it’s going be the last time she gets to play Gabriella Montez.

“This one’s the big one, and it’s the final one, which is so sad because usually we always get to say we’ll see you on the next one, but this time there’s not gonna be a next one,” she said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

But it looks like the show may go on ? but when/if it does, the franchise will be using a new cast.

“We’re done, I’m done…we’re all done after the third one. I think they’re gonna continue the High School Musical franchise, though,” she revealed.

Sad…. But I thought I will just let you all know so we be sure to make this movie as big as it needs to be!

Also, we got 5 HQ versions of the photos of Vanessa Hudgens in South by Southwest Film Festival. I’ll try my best to get HQs of the others from Splashnews. Please do not remove tag and credit the site if you’re posting it in your site. I’ll try to get the others in HQ. And more coming

[05] 03.07.08 – South by Southwest Film Festival