Sharpay and Ryan are an iconic sibling duo, but their IRL narration was a small rockier off-screen — astatine least, astatine first. "I was paired with Ashley and she truly pissed maine off,” Grabeel said astatine the MegaCon convention successful Feb 2025. "This girl. I mean, this is wherefore she got the occupation — she was truthful Sharpay. She literally, we did the scene, we came retired and she’s like, ‘Hey, truthful I truly wanna rehearse and spell implicit it again.’ And I was like, ‘I’m kinda good, 'cause I did my homework and I’m acceptable to go.’ And she’s similar ‘No.' The feeling was mutual, with Tisdale admitting to not precisely harboring lukewarm and fuzzy feelings for her co-star either.
Fortunately, the 2 get on swimmingly now. "After doing 3 movies, 2 tours, countless planetary travels, parties, interviews and roundtables, Ashley is simply a sister to me," Grabeel told Billboard in 2018. "I emotion her. We are similar family. We are a batch similar Ryan and Sharpay."