ISLAMABAD: Priyanka Chopra Jonas has said she left Bollywood behind to give Hollywood a shot because she felt like she was being “pushed into a corner in the industry.”
On Monday’s chapter of the “Armchair Expert” podcast, Priyanka Chopra Jonas said she “had people not casting me” and she “had beef with people” in Bollywood. She added that she had “never said this” before, CNN reported.
‘Matrix Resurrections’ star had thriving career in India
The “Matrix Resurrections” star had a thriving career as a Bollywood actor in India before she came to the United States but accepted that, at the time, she was “tired of the politics.”
She said that “I just needed a break,”
That break from acting in India came when the opportunity to travel to the US and work in the music industry was presented to her, which eventually led Chopra to sign a deal with Interscope Records as a singer in the early 2010s.
She said, “When this music thing came, I was like, you know what, ‘f**k it.’ I am going to go to America,”
After working with industry artists like Pitbull and Will. i.Am, Chopra said she realised she was better suited to being an actor. She started pursuing roles in Hollywood because she felt she was “having issues back house anyway just being cast in the kind of films that I wanted to be cast in.”
After a fortuitous meeting with an ABC casting exec, Chopra found herself auditioning for the network’s latest spy show, “Quantico.”
She said, “I read the pilot, so I knew what the show’s tone was, and I worked with an acting coach,” Chopra landed the role and starred in “Quantico” as FBI recruit Alex Parrish for the show’s three seasons between 2015 and 2018.
She said, “That one audition at that phase in my life really defined me,”
Chopra has continued a successful career in Hollywood, starring in major films such as “Baywatch,” “The Matrix Resurrections,” the upcoming romance movie “love again,” and the spy drama TV series “Citadel,” out on April 28.
