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Priyanka Chopra Recalls "Dehumanizing" On-Set Moment
Priyanka Chopra opened up astir a "dehumanizing" brushwood connected set.
The actress recalled a infinitesimal erstwhile she was conscionable stepping into the satellite of acting that she said was some adjacent parts heartbreaking and distressing.
"I'm undercover, I'm seducing the guy—obviously that's what girls bash erstwhile they're undercover," she said of her relation during a May 23 interrogation with The Zoe Report. "But I'm seducing the feline and you person to instrumentality disconnected 1 portion of covering [at a time]. I wanted to furniture up. The filmmaker was like, ‘No, I request to spot her underwear. Otherwise wherefore is anybody coming to ticker this movie?'"
The 40-year-old noted that the manager hadn't issued his bid to her directly, but to the stylist successful beforehand of her. "It was specified a dehumanizing moment."
Priyanka added, "It was a feeling of, ‘I'm thing other extracurricular of however I tin beryllium used, my art is not important, what I lend is not important.'"
Though the experience near her questioning her worthy beyond her physicality, she continued to enactment connected the task for 2 much days. Eventually she chose to exit, saying she opted to repay the full magnitude spent connected filming alternatively than continuing to endure what she said was an unsettling environment. Referring to a manager who she wouldn't name, she admitted, "I conscionable couldn't look astatine him each day."
Previously, Priyanka has touched connected different turbulent clip successful her career, which was erstwhile she underwent surgery to region a polyp successful her nasal cavity. She said the process resulted successful an altered quality and terrible intelligence wellness repercussions.
The Citadel prima spoke earlier this period astir however she mislaid roles astatine the time, owed to her changed looks and however she felt astir the situation.
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"It was a acheronian phase," Priyanka revealed on The Howard Stern Show on May 1. "This happening happens, and my look looks wholly different, and I went into a deep, heavy depression."
It was during this challenging signifier that her precocious father, Ashok Chopra, provided unwavering support, adjacent holding her manus during corrective surgery.
"I was terrified of that, but helium was like, ‘I volition beryllium successful the country with you,'" she said. "He held my hands done it and helped maine physique backmost my confidence."
Alongside her father, Priyanka expressed gratitude to Bollywood manager Anil Sharma for helping her navigate done this hard period.
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