Vanessa Hudgens made a grand arrival into LAX airport in Los Angeles on Friday after departing from New York City’s JFK earlier in the day.

The 19-year-old High School Musical star patiently signed autographs for a swarm of fans as she made her way out of the terminal to an awaiting car.

Talking about her character in the movie Will, which she was shooting scenes for in the Big Apple over the past few days, Vanessa tells: “My look is definitely more dark than in HSM. I play kind of the emo, kept away from everybody else in her own world’ kinda girl. She wears a lot of black. She always has longsleeves with thumbs in them.”

And the Disney sensation even got the chance to pretend to be in a band, something that she never got the chance to experience growing up.

“No, I was never in a band…not even close. I was in girl groups, but that was pretty much it,” she lamented.