Vanessa Hudgens bonded with her Beastly co-star Alex Pettyfer over their love of Kings of Leon.
The pair star together in a re-telling of the classic story Beauty and the Beast but Hudgens admits that she knew little about her British co-star.
Talking to MTV she said: "I didn't know much about him. We actually met at an event a few days earlier, coincidentally, and about a week later we met with Daniel Barnz the director brought us in to read together.
"We did bond over music; I think that's always an easy thing to get to know someone. We bonded over Kings of Leon; he likes Kings of Leon as well, and I'm the biggest fan.
"And sometimes, before scenes, I would listen to the Plain White T's 'Hey There Delilah', before a really sweet scene too, because I think it puts you in the right headspace."
And while elements of the classic story remain in tact Hudgens believes that the Beastly is a 'darker' and more 'twisted' tale.
"We took bits and pieces of the original, like the transformation; you have to find someone who loves you to break the spell.
"But we twisted it a little bit and made it a bit darker and threw in a few oddities that weren't in the original"
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