Priyanka Chopra is reflecting upon her time as an actress, detailing a second the place she felt her boundaries had been crossed.
An India native, Chopra’s profession accelerated after she received the Miss World 2000 pageant. She started starring in Bollywood movies, and was employed to work with a director she was unfamiliar with, Fox News studies.
“This may have been 2002 or ‘03,” she instructed The Zoe Report.
“I’m undercover, I’m seducing the guy – obviously that’s what girls do when they’re undercover,” she defined of her character. “But I’m seducing the guy and you have to take off one piece of clothing [at a time]. I wanted to layer up. The filmmaker was like, ‘No, I need to see her underwear. Otherwise why is anybody coming to watch this movie?’
“He didn’t say it to me,” she mentioned. “He said it to the stylist in front of me. It was such a dehumanising moment.
“It was a feeling of, ‘I’m nothing else outside of how I can be used, my art is not important, what I contribute is not important,’” she mentioned.
Chopra mentioned she continued working for 2 extra days, finally strolling off the undertaking. Supported by her late father, Chopra selected to pay again the manufacturing staff all that was beforehand spent on filming.
“I just couldn’t look at him every day,” the actress, 40, mentioned of the unnamed director.
A consultant for the actress didn’t instantly return Fox News’ request for remark.
Several years later, Chopra would finally transition from Bollywood to Hollywood, a transfer she says was difficult. She is now married to musician Nick Jonas. The two share daughter Malti, 1.
“People didn’t want to take meetings with me because they thought I was a Bollywood actor and I couldn’t do mainstream American movies,” she mentioned of her pivot to the United States.
“I had been on the cover of this [fashion] magazine six times in India and they wouldn’t take a meeting with me in America. Because they were like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what we’ll do with her.’”
Today, Chopra is among the highest paid Indian actresses in Hollywood.
“I was 17 years old when I started doing this. I’ve been picked apart – my actions, decisions have been scrutinised,” she mentioned whereas acknowledging she created a distinct private and non-private persona for herself.
“I’ve learned how to protect myself by building barriers and walls,” she added, “[but] now that I’ve done this for long enough, the lines are blurring for me. The public person and the real person are kind of becoming the same.”
“I’m more comfortable talking about myself to you than I would have been five years ago. I was a lot more guarded,” Chopra mentioned. “Maybe it’s maturity, maybe it’s coming into my own, finding a confidence in yourself and not seeking. I’m still figuring that out.”
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