Ordinarily, I barely have an opinion on Vanessa Hudgens. She doesn’t seem too great, nor does she seem horrible and tacky. She’s just sort of there, most of the time. I think that she and Zac Efron are probably still seeing each other casually, and that the whole breakup drama was mostly to shake up both of their images. They both want to be accepted as “adult” actors, up for “adult” roles. So… Zac grows a literal beard and hangs out with whatever vagina will have him, and Vanessa does some photo shoots in her panties, trying to sex it up. The header photo is from a new photo shoot Vanessa did with Details (slideshow here) – it makes me feel like a Dateline Predator. She just still seems so young. Ugh.

Anyway, as I was saying, on a normal day, I don’t hate or love Vanessa. But after reading her Details interview, I kind of think the chick needs to settle down. She’s a Disney product after all, and in this new interview, she’s name-dropping Quentin Tarantino and Michael Caine. For real.

Vanessa Hudgens appears in the March issue of Details magazine and its clear this starlet, best known for a puppy-love romance with Zac Efron, has finally shed her squeaky-clean image. Hudgens can be seen in this month’s Sucker Punch, a Zack Snyder film in which she plays a gun-toting asylum inmate, but right now she can be seen as an all-grown-up sex symbol!

Vanessa fidgets a lot at the beginning of the interview but says “I’m not nervous, I’m excited. I get excited. I’m, like, a very hyper energetic, crazy type of crazy. I have a lot going on. Always. I’ll dance on a table sober.”

On training for this month’s Sucker Punch: “We trained with Navy Seals. We were machines, You could NOT f—k with us.”

On working with Michael Caine for the sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth: “He’s uh-mazing. Not only is he uh-mazingly, stupidly talented, but he still kind of hits on me. All the time. If it was anybody else, I’d be like ‘Who the hell do you think you are?’ But because its Michael Caine, I’m like, ‘Sock it to me more, baby, come on!’ Throughout this whole movie we’re trudging through the jungle. So, of course, we’re sweating. I can’t tell you how much time is spent putting oil on my chest. And Evian. Spraying Evian bottles on my chest and my arms and my forehead, but mostly my chest. Just to look like I’m sweating. But your boobs don’t really sweat, cleavage doesn’t sweat. So it’s kind of funny. But Michael’s always telling the makeup artists that he’ll take over and do it. I. Frickin’. Love. Him.”

About Zac Efron, she says the following in a hurt but hopeful way: “We’re still friends. Who knows what the future will bring. We’re figuring this out.”

On talking to Quentin Tarantino at a post-Oscar party: “….probably after a few drinks I told him ‘We’ve gotta do soemthing together.’ … “Slowly, I’ve gained balls. I used to be very shy. Nothing has happened with Tarantino yet, but I definitely tried to plant my seed. Hopefully he won’t look back and think, ‘Oh my God. That crazy bitch.”

[From Details]

Wow, she really wants to crossover into more adult movies, right? Tarantino, Michael Caine, posing in her panties. I know I sound like an old fart, but isn’t there another way for a child star-turned-young lady to successfully crossover? How about some acting lessons, a few years off to work with some great charity, and then maybe come back without being so full of need and desperation?

Photos courtesy of Details – slideshow here. Additional pics by WENN.