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" Vanessa Hudgens is not checking her iPhone. She doesn&amp;#039;t check e-mail when she goes away, and the longest she&amp;#039;s gone off the grid is five days. &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that&amp;#039;s happening in front of you,&amp;quot; Hudgens says, leaning against the railing of a chartered yacht bouncing up and down over choppy water. We are headed out to Nusa Lembongan, a small island southeast of Bali, Indonesia, so that the 24-year-old actress, here to watch the Oakley Pro Bali surf contest, can take surf lessons at a location ominously called &amp;quot;Lacerations Reef.&amp;quot; She takes a seat on the front deck next to her boyfriend, 22-year-old actor Austin Butler (The Carrie Diaries), and serenely faces out, cross-legged, mesmerized by the expanse of crystal-blue ocean. &amp;quot;Nothing is real except the present. If you&amp;#039;re worrying about the future, it&amp;#039;s completely irrelevant because it hasn&amp;#039;t happened yet. And the past \u2014 there&amp;#039;s no need to dwell on that, either.&amp;quot; Her determination to focus on the positive is almost pathological. One of her favorite books is Eckhart Tolle&amp;#039;s A New Earth, a spiritual guide on transcending ego. Hudgens gravitates toward self-improvement and self-help books and defines her spirituality as &amp;quot;perspective.&amp;quot; (Raised Catholic, she was atheist for a time and now considers herself Christian.) A tattoo of the symbol for om, the ancient Hindu mantra representing the universe, is split between her pinkie fingers, and when she puts her hands together as if praying, it makes a whole. (She and friend Ashley Tisdale got inked together in New York; Hudgens also has a butterfly tattoo on the back of her neck.) She took a test once that revealed she is both an introvert and an extrovert. &amp;quot;I can be in a big crowd and get along, but I&amp;#039;m totally fine being by myself as well,&amp;quot; she says. Butler confirms, &amp;quot;Yeah, she&amp;#039;s in the middle, for sure. I&amp;#039;m more of an introvert.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;A sense of knowing I&amp;#039;m a part of something bigger than myself has allowed me to enjoy life more,&amp;quot; she says thoughtfully. &amp;quot;And not worry about the little things.&amp;quot; She pauses. &amp;quot;Like paparazzi.&amp;quot; There is, in fact, very little that frustrates her. People who can&amp;#039;t enjoy what life has given them or who don&amp;#039;t move on can get to her, but she has to think for a while before coming up with something that actually bothers her. Finally, she says, &amp;quot;When people fight. That gives me really bad anxiety. When people can&amp;#039;t resolve things, it really upsets me.&amp;quot; The boat has anchored and Hudgens&amp;#039; mood has shifted from contemplative to hyped up. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m on a bow-oat! I&amp;#039;m gonna sur-urf!&amp;quot; Her arms are up, palms facing the sky, and she repeats this chant in a singsong voice, her rhinestone belly-button ring \u2014 between a knotted T-shirt and cut-off jean shorts \u2014 swaying to and fro as she does a happy dance. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s not jaded at all,&amp;quot; says Selena Gomez, Hudgens&amp;#039; close friend and costar in Harmony Korine&amp;#039;s debauchery-fueled Spring Breakers, a massive departure from the wholesome Disney fare Hudgens built her career on as a musically gifted high schooler. &amp;quot;The person you see and talk to is the same person I talk to.&amp;quot; While filming, the actresses were besieged by photographers. &amp;quot;She was very protective,&amp;quot; Gomez recalls. &amp;quot;I was distracted, and she took me aside and talked to me about who I am and what I represent. I felt safer after that.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s very mature for her age,&amp;quot; agrees John Cusack, who plays &amp;#039;80s serial killer Robert Hansen in the recent thriller The Frozen Ground, in which Hudgens&amp;#039; character, Cindy Paulson, escapes becoming another Hansen murder victim. &amp;quot;She was chained up and most of her clothes were off and [her char- acter] had just been raped,&amp;quot; says Cusack, who was impressed at her willingness to be so vulnerable. &amp;quot;She wasn&amp;#039;t concerned about her ability as an actress. She was just on top of it.&amp;quot; Her fearlessness on-screen is evident in the surf. She gracefully rides the waves like someone who&amp;#039;s done it all her life. A few surfboards away, Butler calls out to her, &amp;quot;That was awesome!&amp;quot; She smiles widely at him and playfully sticks out her tongue. She catches 10 waves before paddling back to the boat. &amp;quot;This was the first time I got a total high from it!&amp;quot; she enthuses. &amp;quot;I wish I could surf all the time.&amp;quot; Read the full cover story at MarieClaire.com and pick up the October issue of Marie Claire when it hits newsstands on September 17. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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