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MUMBAI: Actress Priyanka Chopra, who is making her international debut with ABC’s television show Quantico, says she has her personal reason to go global. The reason: racism and bullying she faced when she was in the US as a teenager.
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The actress tells Miss Malini, “My tryst with the international world has been very personal for me. When I went to school in America, there was a lot of stereotypes attached to Indian people. I was bullied a lot. I witnessed a lot of racism and that’s exactly why I came back to India. I was 16 years old. I was called a ‘Brownie’ and some even told me, “Go back to where you came from.”
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Priyanka says, “At that point in time, I couldn’t deal with it. So when these international opportunities came to me, beginning with my music, I decided to try and bring relevance to Indian talent because I was given the opportunity. ‘’
The actress says she insisted the kind of role I wanted to do in Quantico.
“When they came to me for this deal about some show, I told them very clearly that I’d do it if you cast me as an ethnically ambiguous part. I mentioned that the fact that I am an Indian should have nothing to do with the story, cast me an actor. And they did. They found me a part which is half Indian and half Caucasian. I play an FBI agent and the story has nothing to do with my big family or me wearing henna or any of those stereotypes. I play an American girl and I have an American accent.”
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