Priyanka Chopra Jonas joined Kabir Bedi on Monday over a video name to launch his upcoming memoir, Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life Of An Actor. During the dialog, the actress shared that she had to train folks to say her identify in Hollywood.
She stated, “Let me tell you. This is a couple of decades later when I decided to go and seek work in America. I didn’t have to change my name but I did have to teach people how to say my name. Everybody would be like Priyanka ‘Shapra-Shapra’. I said it is not Shapra. If you can say Oprah, you can say Chopra. It’s not that difficult.”
She additional stated, “What I had to do as well–so funny that you are saying you had to do at that time– was I had to be ethnically ambiguous to a certain extent, to be able to get mainstream roles. In Quantico, I played a half-Indian, half-American. All my bigger work when I initially joined Hollywood, I could not step out there with being Indian, because it was too alien for Hollywood. I don’t think, for a very long time, they understood casting an Indian person in a mainstream role in a leading part. So even now, it was extremely hard.”
Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life Of An Actor is in regards to the highs and lows of Kabir’s skilled and private life, in Bollywood, Hollywood and Europe. The e book guarantees to discuss of his tumultuous relationships, his deep loves and lingering losses, why his beliefs have modified, his wrenching setbacks, and the way he made India proud. It is pitched as a narrative of his making, breaking and re-making as a person.
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