Taye Diggs Videos : Shy actors: Vanessa Hudgens, Sigourney Weaver, Taye Diggs

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Shy actors: Vanessa Hudgens, Sigourney Weaver, Taye Diggs

In this video, several well-known performers talk about being shy. This is Vanessa Hudgens, with Zac Efron, in High School Musical 3. In a magazine article, she says "When I was young, I would not talk to anybody if I didn't know them. I'd hide behind my mom if she tried to introduce me to anyone." In middle school, she got into fashion, "which tends to make you a little more popular," she notes, and acting. She said, "When I was on the stage, I felt like I was hiding behind a person, and I adored it." [From Vanessa Hudgens has attracted millions of fans as America's High School Sweetheart, by James Kaplan, Parade.com 07/26/2009] Sigourney Weaver portrayed a very powerful character Ellen Ripley in the Alien movie series. But she is shy off-screen. She once said, "Sometimes because I am very shy, when I meet a director and they are shy too, we just sort of sit there. I remember when I met Ang Lee and we were left alone - I was so shy and he was so shy neither of us said anything to each other for about 20 minutes. Finally, we started talking about The Ice Storm." [From article : Keeping us guessing - Drama? Comedy? Sci-fi? Nothing is too alien for Sigourney Weaver - by Susan King, Los Angeles Times Jan 30, 2005] Taye Diggs says he has been acting for as long as he has been shy, and has an interesting perspective on how acting has affected him: I wouldnt say my insecurities and shyness have lessened just because of expressing myself through acting, but what has a role in my ...

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