3. Vanessa Hudgens - Sucker Punch
I'm still convinced that
Sucker Punch was an excuse for director Zack Snyder to put all his teenage fantasies onto the big screen with the largest budget he could possibly muster, because how else can you explain its skimpily-clad protagonists, all of which happen to be female? As if to round out this fantasy with some added controversy, Snyder somehow managed to get Vanessa Hudgens, a Disney tween idol (best known for her roles in the
High School Musical series) to sign on and, uh, strip down. But alas, I'm probably not being all that fair to Zack: it was apparently Hudgens who couldn't wait to get her teeth into this role, desperate to shatter the image that she'd conjured up dancing around all wholesome-like girl for Disney. That's to say, the actress took a documented pleasure in subverting expectations the moment she turned 18 and could get cast in stuff like this. This might well have been Zack's fantasy, but
Sucker Punch was Hudgen's fantasy, too (and it probably fulfilled a few of our own in the process).