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" After a two-year stint at Cheek by Jowl theatre company in London, I put all my energies into breaking into New York's theatre scene. It took me eight years to build enough to play lead roles. "

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Sarita Choudhury

Woman

She

" I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see. "

" My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't. "

" Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American. "

" When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations. "

" See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing. "

" Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from! "

Sarita Choudhury

Catch

Know

" I was raised around the world. "

" For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive. "

Sarita Choudhury

Triumph

Alive

" To do a movie with someone like Tom Hanks that when you tell your dad, your dad knows who Tom Hanks is - it feels like you're finally giving back to your parents. It's like you've actually done something that they can recognize, and there's something in me that makes them super proud. "

Sarita Choudhury

You

Done

" I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica. "

" I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news. "

" In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor. "

" I would do Bollywood, but I don't know if I could do that - the dance, the singing, the kind of flirting with your eyes, the outfits. "

" My parents are really open-minded, but with their own daughter, it's not the same thing. "

" I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen. "

" I can speak Hindi, but I can't sustain it over a whole movie. "

" No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time. "

" I've always wanted to do an Indian film, but I didn't want to come to India and pretend that I could play an average Bombay girl. "

" It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it. "

" I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never going to do TV,' but also, TV didn't want me either, so it was kind of perfect. And then, of course, cable happened, and suddenly it was like, 'Oh, I could do that kind of stuff.' "

" The first time I put on the hijab, it felt weird, like I was wearing a scuba-diving suit kind of thing. "

Sarita Choudhury

Weird

First Time

" A few years ago, I got cast as a white boy in an off-Broadway play. So not only was it colour-blind, it was gender-blind as well. That would never happen in film. "

" I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts. "

" Left to myself, I would only play an Indian. But the reality was that there were hardly any Indian characters I could play in the films made in England and Hollywood. So I had to learn how to disappear into a variety of characters. "

" The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain. "

" When you have a good director, it's just wonderful. "

" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "

Sarita Choudhury

Reminds

Theatre

" I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema. "

" I was very shy about acting. I thought you had to be confident. I was confident with my friends, but I would never think of acting in front of anyone else. "