STA extends a warm welcome to Lisa-Marie from Glasgow, who previously guest-blogged about Jennifer Hudson’s assistant role in the Sex and the City movie. Now, she’s weighing in on Jemma Mackenzie-Brown (pictured), who plays the PA to bratty rich girl Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) in ‘”High School Musical 3.”
“Why the hell does a high school student need a personal assistant?” Lilit demanded to know when she initially broke the news about British actress Jemma Mackenzie-Brown’s casting as Sharpay’s personal assistant in the new High School Musical movie. Well, lots of reasons. There’s prom, finals, graduation… life as a high school senior is a stressful one, and nobody knows that better than East High’s “fabulous” queen bee.
Yeah, you might have noticed the sarcasm there - but life’s about to get more stressful as Sharpay eyes up the big part in what’s going to be the last of the titular High School Musicals for these seniors. While being on hand to help Sharpay learn her lines is probably not the worst thankless task that has come to the attention of Save The Assistants, having to keep to a coordinating wardrobe schedule - that will never, EVER include orange - is a bit more onerous.
Assistant as fashion accessory? Perhaps, when even the “sweet” English accent seems part of the package. But there’s that other old cinematic cliche about English accents - is Tiara Goal what she seems? You’ll have to go see it to find out.
Oh, who am I kidding. That’s never going to happen.
While it might be stretching things a little to propose that a movie aimed at the teenybopper Disney Channel brigade is, under the surface, a clever satire on this most distressing of trends, the comeuppance when it comes is well deserved. The moral of the story? A personal assistant is not a toy.
Yah so what ever,shes nothing i mean cereasly,she is a joke!!!!