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" I go about doing my work passionately. "
Sarita Choudhury
About
Work
Doing
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" Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person. "
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" I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to me. "
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" I loved my role in 'Learning to Drive.' It was so different. "
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" 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. "
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" The conventional Indian movie industry is not for me: I cannot dance around trees or the water-fountain. "
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" I was raised around the world. "
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" 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. "
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" I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica. "
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" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "
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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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" There is this film called 'La Femme Nikita.' I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her hand but with tears in her eyes. I would love to play that kind of vulnerability on screen. "
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Gun
" For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive. "
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" I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director. "
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" Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo. "
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She
Me
" The first time I put on the hijab, it felt weird, like I was wearing a scuba-diving suit kind of thing. "
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Weird
First Time
Like
" People are always asking me if the industry is changing, and my answer is always that it is changing only as much as we are. Many South Asian actors complain about being pigeonholed into playing terrorists and cab drivers, but it's time that we stop talking about it. The industry will always say 'No' till we have enough to convince them. "
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Talking
Time
Enough
" 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. "
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See
Love
Theatre
" Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American. "
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American
Black
" I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with. "
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Tradition
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" Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action. "
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Action
Drive
" If you ever watch me at theatre rehearsals, you will know what a bad actress I am. I am bad... bad... bad... and then, by opening night, it all just falls into place. "
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" No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time. "
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Time
" 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. "
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Think
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" My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't. "
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" I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema. "
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" It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it. "
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Got
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" 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. "
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" 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! "
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