Vanessa Hudgens Talks ‘Knight Before Christmas,’ Why She Loves ‘Booksmart,’ and Finding Home on the Stage

Bow down: Vanessa Hudgens is your new Christmas queen. After first top-lining Netflix’s wacky holiday chestnut The Princess Switch last year, the actress is returning to the streamer with The Knight Before Christmas. (This before she continues the story of her maiden Netflix voyage next year in The Princess Switch: Switched Again.)

The Christmas comedy (out Thursday) follows a disillusioned high school teacher (Hudgens) who learns to believe in love again when a medieval knight (Josh Whitehouse)...