REPORT
Deepika Reveals How
Working in Hollywood is
Different From
Bollywood
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any Bollywood stars may have featured in Hollywood films, albeit mostly in small roles but actress Deepika Padukone, set for her international feature debut, hopes more A-listers from India now
take the plunge in the west. Deepika features alongside
Hollywood star Vin Diesel in the third instalment of xXx,
titled xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. When asked if
more Bollywood stars should try their luck in Hollywood
now, Deepika said, "I hope so, but I also feel different
things excite different people. I have been offered roles
in the past itself but I don't think I was ready and I don't
think I was excited enough. As an actor I don't think I was
ready for the challenge before. You have to
look everything
that
you get as an
opportunity.
There is no
role that's too
small or big.
It is all about
what
you
make of the
o p p o r t u n i t y, "
Deepika said
in an interview
on the sidelines
of International Indian Film
Academy (IIFA)
Awards.
Priyanka Chopra
too has created
waves in Hollywood with her
role on hit American TV series Quantico and is making
her feature film debut with Baywatch movie alongside
Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. Irrfan is another actor
from Bollywood, who has a successful career in the west
having starred in films like "Life of Pi, Jurassic World and
the upcoming Inferno co-starring Tom Hanks. Deepika
wrapped the shoot of xXx: The Return of Xander Cage,
last month. During the movie's shoot, the actress had
chronicled her experiences on social media and going by
the photographs it seemed she had a great time working
in the film, which also stars Vin Diesel, Ruby Rose and
Nina Dobrev. Deepika feels xXx came to her at the right
point in her career as she had been craving to do an
action movie for a long time. "Sometimes certain things
happen to you know when they are supposed to. Most
importantly, it is an action film and I haven't done one
since Chandni Chowk to China. I treated the film like I
would treat any other project. It is not like it is a Hollywood film so you would do some different performance.
As an actor, at the end of the day, you want to challenge
yourself. You want to do different things," she
said. The actress
said she didn't find
much
difference
between the working culture of Bollywood and Hollywood, except for
the latter's structured time schedule that the Hindi
film industry lacks.
"They have a very
structured
timing which allows
you weekends. I
used to do grocery shopping,
cooking and also
my own laundry
in Toronto. Everything else is
same as Bollywood," she said. Deepika said that the Indian film industry has evolved a lot, with big studios and content of
movies that an actor will not feel any difference when he
or she goes to work in Hollywood from here. "There are
similarities. The fact that I didn't find anything glaringly
different says a lot about Indian film industry. We have
evolved as an industry - independent producers, big studios, the kind of movies we are making, its content and
our basic work ethics," she said.
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