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The story of Priyanka Chopra Jonas
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4/18/2025
She went from Bollywood stardom to become one of Hollywood's hottest actresses and entrepreneurs. This is what you need to know about Priyanka Chopra.
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I was treated differently because I'm brown, I had really racist behavior when I was in
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high school in 10th grade, I was called brownie, curry, go back on the elephant you came on,
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and that really affected me when I was a kid and affected my self-esteem.
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And I really decided that I'm not going to feel like that anymore, I'm not going to allow
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anyone to feel like that anymore.
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I came from a completely opposite, nobody in my family ever knew anything about movies
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except my dad knew movies because he was passionate about music, but I came from a completely
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academic family of doctors.
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My mom, being a gynecologist, would go in and treat people, and I used to always ask,
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I was like, mom, I'm an Indian girl too, why are girls not, why is there such a difference
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between the way you have raised me, where I've been told to have an opinion, I've been
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told I don't need to know how to cook, I've been told that I can have whatever job I want
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and be successful at it if I have an aptitude, whereas these girls were being told that your
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life has been decided for you.
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And being the daughters of the same country, I saw that.
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It's difficult for a woman of color.
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I did not realize how difficult it was till I started working in America.
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There are certain, especially an Asian woman of color, South Asian, that is me, there seems
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to be, there needs to be an explanation of why a South Asian or an Indian or someone
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who looks like me is cast in mainstream entertainment, but I don't think that that's a requirement
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because if you look around in America, or North America itself, it's a melting pot of
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all kinds of immigrants and cultures.
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So how, why should there have to be an explanation of an ethnicity anymore?
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It's not about the quantity, it's about the quality.
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Even if it's a few scenes, but it's not a wallflower or just a glamour, you know, the
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glamorous effect in a movie, it actually should have a punch.
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So I started doing that in India and I reached a position in my life in India where I'm fortunate
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enough that I get those kind of parts.
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In India, when I first started my career, yes, I did get a lot of pretty girls roles,
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which is not wrong, but I just, I'm an actor and I want to be able to act.
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That's my profession.
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So I took a conscious decision in creating parts for myself or looking for parts, which
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would give me the ammunition of doing something which was substantial in a film.
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I love playing very different characters and my Indian films have played negative characters
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before and somehow I really enjoy them, which speaks a little bit about my personality.
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I had to kind of, you know, grasp on to things myself, learn myself, you know, teach myself
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everything.
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I think I started enjoying myself just about three years ago.
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I think before that I was just trying to understand what I'm doing here and understand how to
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do it right.
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Because I never went to film school, I didn't know anything about movies.
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Everything that I did was instinctive.
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My acting was instinctive.
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My choice of films was instinctive.
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So now I've started sort of enjoying what I'm doing and taking chances and risks and
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yeah, now it's a ride for me.
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I don't think anyone else ever looked like me, which is, you know, I don't know, someone
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of ethnicity, someone, I think Guest has had the most beautiful women in their campaigns
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and it's so flattering for me to be a part of that.
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It's exhausting, but it's a choice that I've made.
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I love both my careers.
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I love making music.
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I love acting and I'm really fortunate that, you know, I have so many opportunities to,
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you know, test myself creatively and push myself.
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And it does get physically, you know, daunting sometimes, but I enjoy it.
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I love what I do.
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I think I'm extremely fortunate.
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I think I have the best job in the world.
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And I think that, you know, I feel extremely grateful for the love, the adulation, the,
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you know, the kind of affection that I've got from people.
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I am here because, you know, of the people who've supported me.
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All I'm saying is we can't make the big change.
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We are not going to be able to eradicate poverty.
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We are not going to be able to bring this gap between the wealthy and the less privileged
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together.
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We won't be able to do it, but we can work towards giving children an opportunity to
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maybe get a fair start, to maybe be able to go to a school.
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