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INTERVIEW<br />
She believes<br />
you’re expected<br />
to be candid on<br />
a talk show. She<br />
grins, “Like in<br />
the Chicken Wing<br />
Contest with Jimmy<br />
Falon, it was about<br />
don’t challenge<br />
an Indian and that<br />
too a Punjabi to eat<br />
chicken! I don’t take<br />
myself seriously and<br />
at the same time<br />
I do.” She reveals<br />
she was cast for<br />
Baywatch over a<br />
Skype interview<br />
and that she wasn't<br />
screen tested for the<br />
role. The role was<br />
originally written<br />
for a male villain.<br />
“For the director to<br />
switch it around is<br />
something. That’s<br />
breaking the glass<br />
ceiling for me,”<br />
she points out.<br />
Then talking about<br />
Aziz Ansari's show<br />
Master of None,<br />
she says, “In one<br />
episode, Aziz’s<br />
character asks why<br />
Indian actors can’t<br />
just play a normal<br />
American character.<br />
I believe I was the<br />
answer to that.” She<br />
reasons no part is<br />
small or big as long<br />
as the actors are<br />
not put in a box.<br />
“Like Brad Pitt in<br />
Fight Club or like<br />
Jennifer Lawrence<br />
in American Hustle<br />
– she won a freakin’<br />
Academy award for<br />
it. In Kaminey, I had<br />
just eight scenes. It’s<br />
the impact of the<br />
part that counts,”<br />
she explains.<br />
In India, her<br />
company Purple<br />
Pebble Pictures has<br />
I CAME ACROSS A GIRL IN A SLUM IN<br />
MUMBAI, WHO AT 13 STARTED IMPARTING<br />
SEX-EDUCATION BECAUSE SHE HERSELF<br />
WAS INFECTED WITH HIV... AND HER<br />
FATHER SUPPORTED HER
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