Rewriting the narrative
The ‘Quantico’ actress says she’d like to play a man next
In a film career spanning more than 15 years, Priyanka Chopra has played diverse roles and paved her way into Hollywood like no other Indian actress has. Now she says it’s her dream to play a man and she is eyeing Broadway, too.
At an interactive session in New Delhi on Monday, Chopra spoke strongly about how her Quantico character Alex Parrish was unapologetic about all the choices she made — something that all women need to be.
“Alex to me is an unapologetic modern woman who lives life on her terms. She is extremely flawed, she’s not perfect, she’s a loner, she doesn’t like people, she only uses people... So, she’s basically playing a man, which is awesome, because girls don’t get to play that... And I was like ‘Yes, we get to turn the tables’,” said Chopra.
“It’s my dream to be able to play a man... That’s the next thing I want to do,” added the actress, who also expressed a desire to do Broadway as she loves watching theatrical productions when she is in New York.
“You’re already playing characters which were written for men, aren’t you,” asked the moderator, alluding to Chopra’s role as the villain in Baywatch?
“No, I am playing modern women — Alex Parrish is a modern woman. A modern woman is an empowered woman who wants to value herself.
“The only thing she asks for is ‘let me make my own decisions without being judged for it’. That’s the freedom that men have experienced for so many year,” Priyanka Chopra receives a Green Certificate from Flo president Pinky Reddy. Chopra said to loud applause from an audience full of women of diverse age groups.
Her next Hollywood release will be Isn’t It Romantic? and she is reportedly in talks to star with Chris Pratt in Cowboy Ninja Viking. For now, she is in India to shoot Shonali Bose’s The Sky Is Pink, in which she will play the mother of an 18-year-old girl.
And she doesn’t care about ‘image woes’. “Nobody can take my glamour away,” said Chopra confidently, reminding that she not only played a mother in Pyaar Impossible but also a 65-year-old in 7 Khoon Maaf.