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" 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. "
Sarita Choudhury
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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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" Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action. "
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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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" 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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" Theatre reminds me of Bollywood. "
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" I live in New York. I go to dance class; I do theatre. When things are sent to me, if I like them, I push to do them. And I would absolutely love to do anything that's part of my dad's homeland. "
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" I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place. "
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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 raised around the world. "
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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 am trained in theatre, and so I take time to study and get into the skin of a character. "
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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 know I create major reactions in people. "
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Create
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" People have this impression that once you move to America, that becomes your interest. But I never moved to Los Angeles; I stayed in New York because I do theatre, so my aim is not just Hollywood. "
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You
Theatre
" 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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" 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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" When you have a good director, it's just wonderful. "
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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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Your
Dance
Kind
" 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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" 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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Always
Loved
" I am interested in independent cinema and theatre, and they don't make news. "
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News
Independent
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" In England, entertainment by and for Indians is huge. "
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" Anything, really - I'm as comfortable playing an Indian as playing a black woman or a South American. "
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" 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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" When you do TV, people will say to you right on the street how they're feeling, with no reservations. "
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" My parents live in Kolkata, so I come every year. "
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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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