Priyanka Chopra, famous Indian as well as Hollywood actress have come a long way from the time a producer told her that “you are an actress and actresses are replaceable”. She had to overcome a numerous adversities to reach the position now she’s in. In a recent interview to Pinkvilla, she opened up about the difficulties she had to face at the starting time of her career.
She said she was thrown out of the movies and it hit her hard. “I have been replaced and it has happened twice. Once, a co-actor told me, and once, I read it in the newspaper. I went and cried to my father, why me? But then he told me what are you going to do about it? I just made sure to be excellent in my next film and learn the job well. Even if the film doesn’t do well, I want to make sure that what I do is excellent,” she said that she decided not to be a “victim of her circumstances.”
While talking about how she dealt those terrible days, she quoted, “You take a couple of days to feel what you are feeling. I am strong because my parents raised me to be a strong woman but that doesn’t mean that I am not vulnerable, that doesn’t mean I don’t have dark days when I feel apologetic, stressed, sad, insecure, pressured. I chose not to do it publically. I have a support system that I have around me. You become the people around you.”
During another recent interview she talked more about this. “I have had situations when I have been thrown out of films because someone else was recommended — a girlfriend was recommended after I was signed for a movie. So, that’s an abuse of power, girlfriend of the hero or girlfriend of the director.”
She added, “I couldn’t do anything about it. I was removed last minute from many such situations because I never catered to the whims and fancies of powerful men. I only cater to my colleagues and friends who give me respect.”
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