Actress Priyanka Chopra recently spoke in an interview about her 2004 film ‘Aitraaz’. When asked what she finds more difficult, getting into a character or snapping out of it, she said there was only one time she struggled to get out of character.
Pri said she had started behaving like her ‘Aitraaz’ character, Sonia Kapoor. She said her mother, Madhu Chopra, had scolded her after she noticed a change in her behaviour. The 40-year-old was praised for her glamorous role as the antagonist in the romantic-thriller, featuring Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor.
She said, “To get into it. I’m not very methodical like that. It only happened to me once, when my mother was like, ‘Snap out of it if you’re going to come into my house’.” Asked what character this was, Priyanka said, “Aitraaz... Sonia (her character) didn’t behave badly. But I would walk in slowly, I would talk deliberately... I would pick up my coffee like this, and look at you slowly.”
The actress said her mother had even shot a video of her to prove how she had started behaving. She said, “My mother was like, ‘Hello, koi camera nahi hai yahan pe (There's no camera here). Come back home’. That was the only time it happened to me, it was so funny. I was like, ‘What am I doing?’ But I was so young, and I was so nervous about that character. I used to bring it home, I really wanted to figure it out and not get it wrong. And I was working with Kareena and Akshay at the time, they were big movie stars. It was a big step for me. But my mother quickly brought me down to earth. She filmed me once. She took a video of me quietly, and showed it to me, and I was so embarrassed.”
Priyanka will soon be seen in ‘Citadel.’ She has been busy promoting the web series, first in Mumbai and London and now in Rome. After its London and Mumbai premiere, the spy series backed by Russo Brothers will start streaming on Prime Video on April 28.