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" In England, entertainment by and for Indians is huge. "

Sarita Choudhury

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

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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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" 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.' "

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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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" 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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" It's like everyone says they love my body, but then I'm supposed to lose weight. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" I am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character. "

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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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" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "

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" My early acting was ingenue stuff. "

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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 was raised around the world. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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