Priyanka Chopra Jonas as soon as walked off a Bollywood film set when the director insisted she flash her underpants.
In an interview with the Zoe Report this week, she associated a narrative from the start of her movie profession, saying she felt it was “dehumanizing” for her to undergo the director’s calls for.
“This will likely have been 2002 or ’03,” Chopra Jonas recalled. She was solid to play an undercover character who was seducing a person by eradicating one piece of clothes at a time. Chopra Jonas had needed to placed on additional layers of clothes with the intention to really feel extra snug with their final removing, however the director – who was not named – had different concepts. He insisted that underwear should be seen.
“The filmmaker was like, ‘No, I have to see her underwear. In any other case why is anyone coming to observe this film?’” she associated. Worse, his feedback have been directed towards an adjoining stylist reasonably than the star.
“It was such a dehumanizing second,” Chopra Jonas stated. “It was a sense of, ‘I’m nothing else outdoors of how I can be utilized, my artwork will not be essential, what I contribute will not be essential.”
Chopra Jonas left the film, however paid again the manufacturing for its bills associated to her look.
“I simply couldn’t take a look at (the director) each day,” she stated.