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Vanessa Hudgens<\/a>\u00a0has more than just <\/span>being a first-time mom<\/a>\u00a0on her mind, including not one but two new films.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Talking with ET’s Denny Directo alongside her <\/span>French Girl<\/span><\/em> co-stars <\/span>Zach Braff<\/a> and Evelyne Brochu, the 35-year-old actress opened up about their new movie and her return as weapons expert Kelly in <\/span>Will Smith<\/a> and <\/span>Martin Lawrence<\/a>‘s <\/span>Bad Boys 4<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I mean, it’s just like such a classic beloved story and it’s really neat being able to go on this journey with them and have so much time go by,” she said of the new installment of the <\/span>Bad Boys<\/span><\/em> franchise. “We really leaned into the fact that they are a bit older and things changing and they’re not necessarily operating at the speed they once knew.”<\/span><\/p>\n Hudgens first made her debut in the franchise in 2020’s\u00a0<\/span>Bad Boys for Life.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>She<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>recently wrapped production on the forthcoming installment, which filmed in Miami. Aside from Lawrence, Smith and the <\/span>High School Musical<\/span><\/em> alum, the film also stars <\/span>Hunger Games<\/span><\/em> actor Alexander Ludwig and <\/span>Fantastic 4<\/span><\/em>‘s Ioan Gruffudd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s fun to be around and I think there’s like a lot of belly laughs and [it’s] action-packed,” the actress said. “It’s going to be a great movie.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As for her other new project, Hudgens said she had just as much fun filming <\/span>French Girl.<\/span><\/em>\u00a0This one, however, required her to use more than just her funny bone as she warmed up her vocal cords to sing nearly two decades since the Disney Channel movie that put her on the map came out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe entire time reading the script from the jump, I was just cracking up. I think it was so hilarious. And this musical number was definitely one of those moments,” she said. “Me, Nick [Wright] and James [Woods] — our directors — talked it through and found this sweet spot of it being, you know, good and ambitious, but very cringe. And it made me cringe personally when I watched it, but all in the name of comedy.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Braff, 48, said that while the entire time filming with Hudgens and Brochu was delightful, the day that they filmed the musical number had to have been one of his favorites.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe had a lot of laughs that day. Vanessa was so funny,” the <\/span>Scrubs <\/span><\/em>alum said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n French Girl<\/span><\/em> centers on Gordon Kinski (Braff), a high school teacher from New York who follows his French-Canadian girlfriend (Brochu)\u00a0to her hometown of Quebec City, where she is chasing her dreams of becoming a chef under the tutelage of Ruby Collins (Hudgens).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Watch the trailer for <\/span>French Girl<\/span><\/em> in the player below:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n French Girl<\/span><\/em> premieres in theaters on March 15.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n RELATED CONTENT:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n