Ashley Tisdale is a bonafide social media queen with nearly 10 million followers on Instagram and she’s swiftly approaching 2 million on YoutTube. Still, as much as we see Ashley all over the gram and YouTube, fans are wondering when they’re going to see her acting again.

“I’ve been a little bit busy on the production side with Blondie Girl Productions. I have a show in development at CBS,” Ashley told Seventeen.com about her super successful production company, which produced the hit Freeform show, Young & Hungry. “We actually just filmed a Daphne & Velma movie, which is the origin story of how Daphne and Velma met in high school and how they became friends.”

But what about roles for herself? Ashley has a guest role on CBS’s MacGyver right around the corner (which you should be so hype for), but Ashley admits it can be hard to find the new, dark, and gritty roles she’s looking for because of her Disney Channel past.

“Obviously the character I played [in High School Musical]was so successful and everyone loved that character,” Ashley explained.

“Right now, my goal in acting is to do roles that people haven’t seen me do before and kind of push the boundaries with that,” Ashley said of her dream role. “Obviously, those are the roles that people just don’t see me in… It’s so funny how someone sees you as a certain character and then they just can’t see you as anything else, which is why I’m so happy and proud that I have my production company because I’m able to create anything. Having writers, being able to have the ideas, and say I’m going to create this.”

And that’s exactly what she’s busy doing! “There’s a lot I’m developing for me to star in,” Ashley shared.

And lucky for us, there’s now a backstage pass to all of the action with her new app. Say hello to the Ashley Tisdale app, your one-stop shop to keeping up with all things Ashley Tisdale! The app, which launched yesterday and is available to download for iPhone and Android users, will transform how fans interact with Ashley by giving fans the ability to boost their (or other fans’) comments to increase visibility and maybe be seen by the former High School Musical star herself!

Now, the question is: Does this mean the end of Ashley’s YouTube and Instagram channels?

“No,” she said when asked if she’d be quitting YouTube and Insta. “I am a big social media fan. I’ll always keep posting on there.” And you know what that means: There are DEFINITELY more “Music Sessions” in our future — when her and her composer/husband Christopher French’s busy schedules permit, obviously. You’ll just have to be a little patient. “I don’t have anything planned right now, but we’ll definitely be doing more this year. I’m looking forward to seeing who I can collab with because it’s always so much fun. We have such a great time doing it.”

Who could forget her “Ex’s & Oh’s” performance with her real-life bestie Vanessa Hudgens?! Or when she remixed the HSM classic, “What I’ve Been Looking For,” with her onscreen bro Lucas Grabeel? And thanks to Ashley’s new app, her music sessions are about to get even better. You might start getting some behind the scenes moments!

“When me and Lea Michelle were doing our music session and filming that, the best part was half the stuff we were saying in between the takes, and so to have my app be able to capture that stuff [is awesome,]” Ashley shared. “Because that’s not something you would put on a YouTube platform. That’s the stuff you don’t get to see normally, which I’m excited to be able to do.”

You excited?! WE’RE EXCITED!

Source: Seventeen