In a film career spanning over 15 years, Priyanka Chopra has essayed diverse roles and paved her way into Hollywood like no other Indian actress has. Now she says it\u2019s her dream to play a man and she is eyeing Broadway too.<\/p>\n
At an interactive session for Ficci FLO here on Monday, Priyanka spoke strongly about how her Quantico character Alex Parrish was unapologetic for choices — something that all women need to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlex to me is an unapologetic modern female who lives life on her terms. She is extremely flawed, she\u2019s not perfect, she\u2019s a loner, she doesn\u2019t like people, she only uses people… So, she\u2019s basically playing a man, which is awesome, because girls don\u2019t get to play that… And I was like \u2018Yes, we get to turn the tables\u2019,\u201d Priyanka said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my dream to be able to play a man… That\u2019s the next thing I want to do,\u201d added the actress, who also expressed a desire to do Broadway as she loves watching theatrical productions when she is in New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re already playing characters which were written for men, aren\u2019t you,\u201d asked the moderator alluding to Priyanka\u2019s role as the villain in Baywatch?<\/p>\n
\u201cNo… I am playing modern women… Alex Parrish is a modern woman. A modern woman is an empowered woman who wants to value herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing she asks for is \u2018let me make my own decisions without being judged for it\u2019. That\u2019s the freedom that men have experienced for so many years… And that\u2019s all the women want unapologetically,\u201d Priyanka said to an applause from an audience full of women of diverse age groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve lived in America as a child, and my biggest pet peeve then was not seeing anyone on the television who looked like me. So whenever you saw Indians in global mainstream entertainment, you always saw them in a box of the nerds, the big fat Punjabi family wedding or the shopkeeper or Apu from The Simpsons…<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy could we not go beyond that? Why did our ethnicity define the roles we played? So, the only thing I told the people was that don\u2019t come to me with a show based on a big Punjabi wedding, I won\u2019t do it… I don\u2019t want to be put in a box and I don\u2019t want my ethnicity to define the roles I take on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Quantico had her play a half Indian, and that had nothing to do with the story.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat for me was my biggest win. I had dug my feet in and I said I will not compromise on what I see as the future of global entertainment for people like me and South Asians. I think that gave me the confidence to dig my feet further and demand the kind of parts that I want to do,\u201d said Priyanka.<\/p>\n
This has continued with Baywatch and her other new films abroad.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am playing characters which have nothing to do with my ethnicity and I feel it will open the door for Indian talent or South Asian talent to become mainstream… Why do we play the sidekicks? I want to play the leading lady and I am not going to compromise on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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