Vanessa Williams on ‘Hannah Montana’ Movie
April 11, 2009 by Tom
Ugly Betty’s Vanessa Williams didn’t have to think much before signing up to play Vita in the just-opened Hannah Montana, The Movie.
She says, “I have an eight year old daughter who is prime Hannah Montana fan. And the year before we had gone to her concert, the 3-D movie of her concert, we had seen her at the high school musical premiere, and we have it playing 24/7 in our house. So I definitely knew about the Hannah Montana mania.”
With this as a background, when she was contacted about appearing in the film, Williams jumped at the chance.
“My management called and said, ‘Listen, I know you only have two months off of from your shooting for Ugly Betty, but there’s a small role in the Hannah Montana film, what do you think?’ And I said, ‘You know what I don’t even need to read it. Yes I’ll do it, I’m in.”
Reviewers have said that Williams, as Vita, basically plays “another Wilhelmina”, although that’s kind of funny, because on Ugly Betty lately she’s been playing an entirely different character than the one we saw in season 1. There is a lot of disagreement in Ugly Betty fan-dom about whether or not the softer Wilhelmina is a good thing. I’ve personally liked this break from evil for her, although a part of me misses the old evil schemes.
Anyway, if any of you have seen the movie yet, what did you think of Williams? What about the movie overall?
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Vanessa was wonderful in the movie. Her character Vita was definitely similar to Wilhelmina, but I think that’s why they wanted Vanessa to play the part. They knew she could play a pushy diva role well, and Vanessa gave them exactly what they wanted.
The overall movie was great. I’m not a fan of Hannah Montana, (I only saw it to see Vanessa) but I really enjoyed the movie. It was fun, musical and heart warming. It was a feel good film and Vanessa was a fantatic addition to the cast!
Well i love Hannah so i went to see the movie yesterday and i really liked it, cuz i love the show and the movie did stay true to the show and i made me cry(so sad) also the fact that my personal fav. Vanessa Williams was in it was just the icing on the cake she was a as i called “G-rated verison of Wilhelmina” lol i mean she wasnt really mean she just wanted to get things done! I just wish there was more of Rico,Oliver, and Jackson, i mean i no its HM but some of the OC werent really in it!! soo oh yea the hoedown throwdown was the best part me and a buch of 5 year old were gettin down in the theatre!!! Also caught Tyra yesterday the cast was on there including Vanessa and they did(or tried) to remember the dance.
omg. I loved that movie it was great. Im a huge fan of hannah and vanessa so i really had to go see the movie.
the kids at home loves Hanna Montana. I also watched this show from time to time and Miley Cyrus is really fit for this role.