Priyanka Chopra, who's currently enjoying adulation for her performance in The White Tiger, talks about what attracted her to the part and how Nick Jonas said she could be the first Jonas to win an Oscar.
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas. File Pic/Yogen Shah
Priyanka Chopra has made a major name for herself in the west. Right from Quantico that came out in 2016 to The White Tiger that dropped on Netflix recently, she continues to soar with her performances. The actress has now talked about the film and what her husband Nick Jonas said.
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While interacting with Variety in a podcast, she said, "I'm really looking for a trajectory where I have the ability to play various characters and genres and not be bogged down or put into a box or a stereotype of what I can do. That was my career in India. I've played various different characters, and I've played a lot of immersive parts."
She also talked about Nick's reaction and this is what she revealed, "He was like, 'You may be the first Jonas to win an Oscar.'" The actress also recently talked about skin-lightening and what she thought of it before and after.
She said, "Skin lightening was so normalised in South Asia; it's such a large industry that everyone was doing it. In fact, doing it is still a check [mark] when you are a female actor, but it's awful. And it was awful for me, for a little girl who used to put talcum-powder cream on my face because I believed that dark skin was not pretty."
She also shared her bullying experience. "It's so difficult to hear you talk about it right now. In high school, I feel like the kids who were after me didn't even understand why. I think it's that they decided that they were more powerful than someone else—me—and when you pick on someone, it's because you're insecure. Bullying happens to kids and adults. It happens with positions of power, and we've all seen that abused in multiple ways."
"It affected me adversely. It affected my confidence; it affected who I wanted to be. I felt exposed, when your skin is raw", she added.
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