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Priyanka Chopra recalls a harrowing incidental astatine the Forbes Power Women’s Summit. (Photo: Instagram/PriyankaChopraJonas)
Priyanka Chopra Jonas has ne'er hesitated to stock her struggles, including her experiences with the casting couch, passim her Bollywood journey. At a caller event, Priyanka recalled 1 of her aboriginal ‘dehumanising’ encounters with a Bollywood director, which near her heartbroken and made her locomotion retired of a movie astatine the property of 19.
During the Forbes Power Women’s Summit, Priyanka recalled the incidental which happened astatine the opening of her career. At 19, portion moving connected a movie, she approached a filmmaker and requested him to talk with her stylist astir the costume and quality requirements for the role. She shared, “He picks up the telephone and goes, ‘Listen, radical are going to travel into the movies to ticker her erstwhile she shows her panties. So it needs to beryllium truly abbreviated truthful that I tin spot her panties. You cognize those radical sitting up front? They should beryllium capable to spot her panties.’ And helium said it similar 4 times. And it’s not adjacent beauteous successful Hindi. It’s worse.”
After coming backmost home, Priyanka told her parent Madhu Chopra that she cannot adjacent look astatine the director’s look anymore. She told her, “If that’s what helium thinks of me, if that’s however tiny I am, there’s nary abstraction for growth.” Then, Priyanka decided to locomotion retired of the movie and has ne'er collaborated with the filmmaker till date.
Meanwhile, connected the nonrecreational front, Priyanka Chopra Jonas precocious wrapped up the sprout of Citadel Season Two. She has The Bluff and Heads of State successful the pipeline. The histrion has besides hinted astatine her adjacent Indian task with Mahesh Babu and SS Rajamouli.
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