Vanessa Hudgens` instant `connection` with Zac Efron

London: Vanessa Hudgens has confessed that she had an instant `connection` with beau Zac Efron. The couple began dating each other after meeting on the set of `High School Musical.`

And Hudgens insists that their on-screen chemistry mirrors real life. "Right off the bat, we had a connection, I think everybody could see it," the Mirror quoted Hudgens as telling US Glamour. "I think that we inspire each other. [I love] having someone to grow with," she added. The 21-year-old star said that Efron has changed a lot over the past four years. "I look at him, and I see a man. He’s just grown-up. He was adorable. I mean, he wasn’t the guy that he is today. Like, he had a gap in his teeth! He was a whole different person," she said. ANI