Riding high on the success of her American TV series Quantico, Priyanka Chopra is gearing up for her Hollywood film debut with Baywatch alongside Dwayne Johnson.
Riding high on the success of her American TV series Quantico, Priyanka Chopra is gearing up for her Hollywood film debut with Baywatch alongside Dwayne Johnson.
Appearing on the latest episode of the hit talk show, Koffee With Karan, Chopra gave a riveting interview and shared stories of her work abroad including facing racism.
Revealing that Quantico was her first ever audition in America, Chopra said, “I read 25 scripts and then said yes. There is an empty room and a camera staring at you. Now being a Bollywood celeb, I was all decked up. So, the moment I walked in, they said, ‘we knew somebody has walked-in’. I was nothing like Alex Parish.”
Chopra also shed light on how Indian fans in the United States responded to her presence during the shoots.
“When I am shooting there, thousands of people surround the area around,” she said. “While I take selfies, meet and greet people, my co-stars just click pictures of the crowd because they have never seen the madness of how people believe in what we do. It is totally funny how Indians push Americans around to meet us.”
However, the actress also admitted that she faced ‘racist’ treatment during an international flight. She noted that on a flight from Europe to New York, the air hosts directed her to the loo at the back assuming she was flying economy. Calling it a first world problem, Chopra said such things routinely happen. Time will tell if Baywatch can change it for her.
