This A- list actress is best known for being in Mouse productions.
She is an adult, but has been with them for a long time.
Apparently the perv director over there decided to make sure she didn’t get any more roles because she wasn’t playing the game the director loves to play. You let him do what he wants to do and to also introduce you to others to do what they want to do.
She said no and is now going to have a tough time finding work.
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Director Kenny Ortega on the Queer Aesthetic of His Movies From ‘Hocus Pocus’ to ‘High School Musical’
Yes, there’s John Waters, Gus Van Sant, Pedro Almodovar, Lee Daniels, Gregg Araki, Kimberly Peirce, Lisa Cholodenko and Dee Rees. But there’s at least one other director who deserves to be included in that group of barrier-breaking LGBTQ filmmakers: Kenny Ortega.
Ortega, one of this year’s honorees on Variety’s Power of Pride list, made movies that queer kids could relate to, even if they didn’t know they were queer when they were watching them.
In 1992’s “Newsies,” Ortega discovered Christian Bale as a young actor, casting him as the star of Disney’s live-action musical about singing Manhattan newspaper delivery boys during the newsboys’ strike of 1899. The movie was so far ahead of its time that — despite soft box office receipts — it inspired a hit Broadway musical two decades later. Ortega next engineered the 1993 cult family comedy “Hocus Pocus,” with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the cackling witches known as the Sanderson sisters.
And in 2006, Ortega launched Zac Efron and “High School Musical” trilogy on the Disney Channel, at the time the most successful TV movie ever with its soundtrack of songs (“We’re All In This Together”) that became the next “Grease” for a generation of tweens.
In his own life, the 70-year-old Ortega had ambitions of being an actor — starring in a touring production of “Hair” — before he moved on to becoming an award-winning choreographer (with one of his many credits being 1987’s “Dirty Dancing”) and director. On a recent day, Ortega spoke to Variety in a far-ranging interview about his career. – Source
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