Kareena Kapoor Says She Is Very Nervous For Her Netflix Debut

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At the trailer launch of Jaane Jaan, Kareena Kapoor said that she is more nervous for her OTT debut than she was 23 years ago when she made her debut in films.

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00:00 Karina, you've literally molded the modern avatar of the heroine, okay?

00:05 You've been a game changer, you've done many, many firsts in life.

00:10 How does it feel to be debuting all over again, this time with Netflix?

00:14 What has changed? How does it feel?

00:18 Karina - I think I'm more nervous than what I was twenty-three years ago.

00:23 You've got to be kidding me.

00:24 Karina - Yeah, for the first time because

00:26 I just feel like I was watching the promo even so closely on a television screen.

00:32 So, you know, people watching me so, so close, you know, in their homes,

00:37 I think it's, I don't know, I'm obviously nervous but

00:41 I know one thing for sure that we all have worked really hard.

00:45 Of course, every actor in whichever film works really hard.

00:48 But I think Sujoy's made a fantastic film because I believe in him.

00:52 We've been wanting to work together for I think over a decade and it's just happened.

00:59 And it happened thanks to, you know, my dearest friend Jaiyu

01:04 who's made this film along with Akshay,

01:07 who had this idea actually when we were shooting Bhoot Police

01:10 and it just came up that, you know, why don't we make the book?

01:13 And I was actually pregnant with Jai at that time and we were in Dharamshala

01:18 and I was like, it was such a lovely idea.

01:21 And it just, you know, everything just fell together and when Jaiyu came to me

01:26 and he said that, "Okay, we're doing the film."

01:28 And Sujoy is very excited because he's been, you know, he's been with the script.

01:32 And I said, "Why don't we do it for Netflix?"

01:36 Because, you know, everyone's doing so much work on Netflix and it's so good

01:39 and I, you know, I don't want to be left behind, I want to do it.

01:42 And he was like, "Yeah, yeah."

01:43 And then obviously he was like, you know, he threw some actors' names

01:50 and he was like, "Yeah, whatever."

01:51 And then I was like, "Listen, you know, I just…

01:53 I want to work with, you know, some really amazing actors."

01:57 - Unusual choices for you. - Yeah, just something.

01:59 I said, "You know, somebody that I can, you know, I just, you know,

02:02 add some sort of freshness, some… I can learn from."

02:06 And then he was like, "Yeah, yeah."

02:07 And then he came back and he was like, "You know, I think Jaideep would be amazing

02:12 for the professor's role and Vijay for this part."

02:16 - That's a dream cast right there. - And I was like,

02:18 I just didn't even think for a second.

02:21 I was like, "This is… this is it.

02:24 I want to do this, I want to work with them, I want to learn from them."

02:28 And I can't thank both of them enough for just, you know,

02:32 just being so amazing that I would sometimes just be like in the middle of the shot,

02:35 be looking at them like and forgetting actually my lines.

02:38 And I've never done that with any actors ever

02:41 because I think they're just so natural.

02:43 So I think it's been like a, you know, it's just meant to be.

02:47 And Netflix, I think, so amazing for making this project

02:51 and giving us the opportunity to tell this beautiful story with a lot of fog.

02:58 [laughs]

03:00 [music]

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