Actor Freida Pinto, who rose to fame together with her function in Danny Boyle`s `Slumdog Millionaire` talked about her future tasks and mentioned that she doesn`t need to confine herself to Hollywood, reported Variety.
« I`ve always looked at cinema globally, » she informed Variety. « After `Slumdog,` I could have easily played all the Indian roles, the girlfriends and sidekicks, or just gone and done something only in India. »
Talking about taking part in difficult roles like taking part in a Palestinian lady in `Miral`, which is a biographical political movie directed by Julian Schnabel. « I know it`s not okay these days because the world has opened up and there`s so much talent, » Pinto mentioned. « But — and I don`t mean this in a pompous way — with a film like `Miral,` where I`m playing a Palestinian girl and it`s such a controversial subject matter, they needed someone then who could put butts on seats. I now see that`s why they chose me, but at the time I thought: I can see myself as x, y and z, and I feel that in me too. The way I think now is not the way I thought back then, at all. But those films opened doors and made people more aware of a whole region, which has so much talent and so many stories that are not being told frequently enough. I wouldn`t do it now, but I`m very proud of what I did then. »
As the actor attended Saudi Arabia`s Red Sea Film Festival, she shared the way it feels to be in Saudi Arabia the place Bollywood stars are greeted with such adulation, in line with Variety.
« Bollywood is all over the region. The Middle East and Northern Africa. I believe it`s also huge in Japan. When I was filming in Israel and Palestine, I remember going into the old city of Jerusalem, and they were selling DVDs of old Bollywood movies and they would say « Hind, » which means Indian in Arabic. They would ask me, even though I was in character, if I knew all the old Bollywood actors, which I said no. »
« I think what works is the escapism, which is something Bollywood cinema does best. I love what we do in the Western world as well, but there`s something magical about Bollywood and it`s always about family, love and culture, and it`s immediately relatable for the Middle East. Coming together, respect for your elders, all of that is represented in Indian Cinema and although Saudi Arabia and India are different countries, there`s no disconnect, when it comes to that. The Western world and their beliefs are more nuclear than the extended family, » she added.
Sharing about her plans, she mentioned, « The opportunities are changing now. We`re celebrating `Minari` and `Parasite` at the Oscars. You`re in a bubble if you think Hollywood is the only thing. There`s Asian cinema that isn`t tapped into or explored, and they`re all doing well in their own countries as well as elsewhere. I don`t want to be just doing Hollywood and working with the filmmakers who we hear about over and over again. That`s why I would love to work with Nadine Labaki. I loved her first film `Caramel` and I`ve been hoping an opportunity would come and now with my own production company I can create that opportunity for myself if I wanted to. »
2024 seems to be a giant 12 months with a slew of tasks doubtlessly coming to fruition, together with roles in Season 2 of Apple TV+ present « Surface » and a movie adaptation of Onjali Q. Rauf`s « The Boy at the Back of the Class. » As a producer, she has 4 tasks close to « the finishing line, » together with a Deepa Mehta movie. »It`s all coming together, » she mentioned, reported Variety.
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