Priyanka Chopra felt “dehumanised” when a director requested to see her underwear on set.
Priyanka Chopra was horrified after a director requested to see her underwear
The 40-year-old actress was engaged on a undertaking early on in her performing profession the place she had to play a seductive character and recalled the unnamed director of the film ensuring that the digital camera may see her underwear, claiming that “no-one” would come to see the film in any other case.
She advised The Zoe Report: “I’m undercover, I’m seducing the guy—obviously that’s what girls do when they’re undercover.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? It was such a dehumanizing moment.”
The ‘Citadel’ actress – who’s now married to former Disney Channel star Nick Jonas and has 16-month-old daughter Malti Marie with him – went on to clarify that the alleged incident made her really feel as if she was “not important” in her job and ultimately give up after simply two days on the set.
She added: “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. I just couldn’t look at him every day.”
Priyanka additionally added that it was troublesome for her to break into American motion pictures as a result of she was eternally thought of a Bollywood actress.
She mentioned: “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. 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.’”
