 
Was Miss world at 18 just because I was confident
And I wasn't like that from the beginning so confidence is something I've taught myself over the years I
Started becoming okay with who I am
I was nervous that how would America and global entertainment react to an Indian girl playing the American Hero
It doesn't matter as long as you're convincing as a Bi
It's not the sympathy that you wanted oh my god as a girl. You don't get the jobs. It's hard
We're willing to work for it and we'll demand it. I
Feel like the more conversations that happen the more people see
Examples like me playing the villain and Baywatch or or wonder woman or so many female?
Stronger characters that are coming out right now the more people will understand that that's also entertainment it has nothing to do with Gender. I
Feel like destiny and hard work. Go hand in hand there are some things that are inexplicable that happened
You have to be able to recognize opportunities
there will be a lot of them that come into your life and once you recognize an opportunity you have to seize the day and
work Bloody hard
Okay, so check this out. I'm about to interview
Priyanka Chopra who is the Bollywood movie star television actress former miss India and Miss world and now?
She's the star of Baywatch the movie which I saw last night the rock is in there zac Efron it's crazy
She's a fascinating woman was just named one of the top 100 most influential people in the world
She's very opinionated big on diversity, and I cannot wait to sit down and talk to her
I'm super excited to do it. So I'm going to jump in there right now
Make sure you check out the London real academy
Broadcast yourself course is coming soon of course the life accelerator and business accelerator and wish me luck with Priyanka
It's going to be a dope conversation. I'm going in
This is London real
I am brian rose my guest today is Priyanka Chopra the Indian actress singer film producer
Philanthropist and winner of the Miss world 2,000 pageant
 
Time magazine named you is one of the 100 most influential people in the world and you currently star in the hit TV series quantico
You're in London promoting your new film Bay watched the movie co-starring DwAyne Johnson Aka the rock and Zac Efron Priyanka welcome to them wow
Yeah, but I guess that's me yeah. That's you that was my introduction
Wow, that's a lot of things. I've managed to achieve. Yeah
I want to hear about some of those um when you're flying in and about to land in heathrow and you're looking out and
You see the London Skyline
Maybe you can see hyde park or something. What are some of the memories that kind of flood back to you about London well?
So for me. I mean I've been to London now a million times in my in my career, but
Everything for me started with London um I was crowned miss world in London. It happened the millennium
Dome was launched that yeah um I was failure at first yeah
yeah, and it's it started with like a pageant happen at the Millennium dome and
I remember that it was the millennium
Yeah, so the excitement and you know the whole conversations around y2k, and all that was happening
So whenever I come into London
And I see the london eye when I'm landing um
I always start feeling like an 18 year old again because when I had come here as
A contestant as Miss India from this world
You know everything was so new and I I was this seventeen eighteen year old with 93 gorgeous stunning
Tall women from around the world, and you know we were being chaperoned
And I was meeting world dignitaries and and world leaders
And I had to have an opinion on like the economy of countries, and you know it life just suddenly chi
I think I grew up in like a year so london is a constant reminder for me of that of
Like growing up in such a short span of time and your mom put you in the contest without even asking your right
Joke okay. I honestly think it was a joke because she's funny that way yeah, she does. She's funny. She's always bullying tricks, but this
I was taking photographs at this
You know like how you do mall shots and you take those soft focus hand on your face kind of pictures
And this is like 99
I was
Hoping to take pictures because I was applying for a scholarship program. I wanted to be an engineer and the photographer said
Oh, you're really pretty can I take some more pictures into a 16 year olds ego. I was like
yeah, sure of course and those pictures my mom obviously thought were great and
They used to be ads for Miss
India and you know a daily monthly magazine and she saw those ads
And she just decided to send them in she didn't tell me she didn't tell dad and we got a call back
I happen to be home those were landline days
I happen to be home and picked it up
and he said we're calling for miss india you've been selected you to come to new Delhi Blah blah blah and
I don't know where that came from till my mom brick broke the news I was going for Miss
India pageant and what did your dad take because he wasn't happy he was pretty strict well?
He was I think I went to America, but Dad wasn't strict
I went to America when I was 12 years old, and I came back when I was 16
so when you're 12
And when you come back when you're 16 my dad didn't know what to do with a teenager suddenly
I was not a baby anymore
So he was freaking out anyway
And then on top of that my mum puts in this whole thing that I'm going to be in a beauty pageant
she was freaked out for a little while, but my mom bailed the cat like they say uh
Heat she spoke to him we had an honest conversation and my dad just said if she wants to if you want to do that
I just want to make sure that you know your mom's with you when you're there because you're so young and
My mom is a practicing
I'm a practicing doctor and she gave up her practice to be with me for
Three years at least it's my current like my the point was if your career works out
Your mom has to be with you and she did it
She gave up a practice for like three four years till I was on my own feet
she's to always be with me and make sure everything was okay in the big bad world of show business and and
Then she let me fly
How do you have the car to try to be first in this, India and then go to Miss world?
I mean confidence doesn't seem to be ever a problem for you, but what do you think that comes from?
You know I don't think people would believe it, but I think it sells doors
I don't think confidence is something that
You were born with I don't think confidence is it's it's a skill set and I had no confidence
Growing up as a child. I was extreme. I had very low self-esteem. I was gocky as a teenager. I lived in America
I was made to feel conscious about
the fact that I was Indian that was weird at that time and
Not by everyone, but just by like a few bullies at school
that hated me in high schools hard for everyone, but so I was in a in a very weird sort of teenage place and
When miss India happened I'm inherently competitive
I think the fact that I was competitive pushed me to teach myself to be confident
Initially I faked it till I made it. I was just like I'm not gonna let anyone see that I'm scared
I'm not Gonna let anyone
See that I'm affected and over time
I realized like as a woman as a girl in this world if
I allow myself to be hurt or if I allow myself to be affected
That's all I'm going to be and I'm not you know trying to say that it's it's a it's an issue that just women have
It's not easy to be a woman in show business and especially a woman who's opinionated especially someone who I'm not
I'm sort of like and I wasn't like that from the beginning
I sort of learned so confidence is something I've taught myself over the years
I I started becoming okay with who I am I became the best version of me and
Then I sort of said I'm okay. You know
I'm alright even if someone else thinks this I'm okay
And everyone can do that people just don't realize it is it confidence
You think that one in this world because at that level it's not about the looks anymore is oh absolutely
I was told that that I won it because of confidence because I asked later there were so many more beautiful women
Than me but of course I was curious. I was like. What was it and they were like just you when you speak you just
Eloquent and confident, and you know and I was 18
And I realized how important it was I mean I was miss world at 18. Just because I was confident
so it made me understand that confidence truly is the key to
Getting ahead in life if you believe in yourself the world will believe in you because perception is reality
Talk to me about this for years. You're in Iowa. It's 25 years ago. I'm guessing it's my lookout the numbers, okay?
All right, you and a lot of you know lovely Midwestern white people yeah
And what's that like and is that probably why you ended up going back to America?
Did that plant seeds did it put Americana inside of you?
No, they want the big bad villain no
I've had a when I was in fact when I came from India to Iowa it was one of the best experiences
I had in in America
I was in ninth grade or eighth grade, and there was none of our neighbors were indy and everyone was like
I think yeah mostly
Midwestern and white
and
I remember my aunt would come out who I was living with we come back from work like in the evening and we were
Babysat by our neighbors me and my cousins and she was amazing the family was great
She's to take her kids and us to the pool and we'd spend the afternoon there have hot dogs for lunch
And then you know come back in the evening to hang out my art
I I didn't even understand race and the differences of that when I first came into America
I got a lot more aware of it in
Fact when I went to school like in school like kids. You know teenagers like
when your peers start making you aware of it and that happened to me not an Iowa actually surprisingly as
People would think but in Boston. I was in high school in Boston, and I think she just hated me
I don't know why she just didn't like me um
And she started picking on me
And I guess to hurt me
She the only thing she could hurt me with which I couldn't change was the color of my skin, right?
So I think that's what that's why she started being
Hateful and calling me brownie and curry and and all of those things now in retrospect
ooh, India and I was just like I don't want to go to high school here, and I went back to India but
I've never held it against a country
I held it against the girl who bullied me
And that's how I think we need to address the world we can you can't generalize like that
We are going through our problems as a world right now because that's what we do because we put people in boxes because we stereotype
Because we say everyone
Who's like this will be like that but in not in my experience my bully was a she was she was she was african-American
She was not working right. You know what I mean, so it's like that nothing's nothing is a
Straight line, and we need to stop looking at the world like that a little bit
I think Steve jobs said it one of the graduation speech at stanford it when you look back at your life
You can connect the dots
Yeah
And if we leave that girl you might not have gone back to India and you probably needed to be miss India before you were
Miss world absolutely yeah, I believe in destiny besides Beyonce. I'm destiny's favorite child
Why do you believe in Destiny?
Because I feel like destiny and hardwork. Go hand in hand there are some things that are
Inexplicable that happened. I wanted to be an engineer, but it is my life. I can't speak for everyone else and
I'm an actor that was never no one in my entire family had ever been in show business
It was the most bizarre thing to comprehend because I come from an extremely academically inclined family
My parents are doctors my my entire family was like double phds MDS
Like way to set your children up for failure
But that's who they were and I feel like I was I was put into in retrospect
I was put into places and things happen in my life that made me ready for things in the future
So in retrospect. I really do believe in destiny
I feel like I was picked out of I was sent back to India like you said because I was this career was
Ahead of me I was always creative in school, but I didn't know what to do with it
I used to ride I did plays. I would do school
But my aspiration was never to be creative and now that I found this vocation
I'm producing. I write columns. I my creativity comes out and whatever a way it can and I think
somehow something
Guides you what that is. I don't know I don't have a name for it. I don't think it's a religion
I don't know if it's God
I don't know what it is, but I think something is bigger than us
And I believe in that but you don't wait for it because you're constantly working and you can't wait for destiny
That's being entitled no one can be that you can't be like. Oh, that's knees Gonna knock on my door one day
No, it won't you have to be able to recognize opportunities?
because there'll be a lot of them that come into your life and once you recognize an opportunity you have to seize the day and
Work bloody hard, because there'll be 25 other people who want to do it
Talk to me about your work ethic because you once said I'm in a state of permanent exhaustion
I mean a lot of people will win this world and
You know take a break you go back to try to conquer the movie industry yes
Yeah, we'll talk me through you and your work ethic and what happened for those next five years
Well when I became miss India I sort of was on
strange ground myself because I was
Literally, I was in college. I was studying and now I'm suddenly miss world, and I have these I was traveling all over the world
you know being an ambassador and
and suddenly movie offers started coming to me from India because I think producers thought that it would be it would make business sense to
you know have
this world in a movie and I
Guess it did because in my first second films like I won a lot of awards I didn't think I could act
I just went in there with the idea of okay. I can learn a new skill set
I may not know what acting is about, but I can learn so that's how I taught myself. I've never been to film school
I've I taught my career has been my film school. I've fallen down and dusted myself off. I've been okay to fail I
Don't like failure. I'll never let the same failure happen to me again because I learn from it. I like knowledge
I like learning from the people around me, and I don't think anyone reaches a point no matter how successful. You are in life
we can't learn something new and I think that sort of
Got me to where I am and that's been a big part of my work ethic
You're in one of the greatest acting towns in the world's London especially for the stage
Yeah, what what have you learned about acting?
I mean, I don't know much about it, but what is the essence of being a great actor well?
I'm so excited actually the fact that you mentioned this friend of mine, Russell
Tovey is also doing a big play here, and I wanted to see him, but a bay watching
but it's so great him he was on quantico with me and
We had so many conversations about theater
You know I think it's the biggest test as an actor first of all when you do theater and probably that so I haven't ever
Attempted yet cuz yeah yet because it's it's scary. I didn't school, but I think acting for me again
I'm not a method actor
I'm not someone who more like if it's hot sit in a sauna or if I have to ban to run for three miles
I'm not that person I
Whenever I read a character and because I'm self-taught. Maybe this is the wrong method, but whenever I read a character I I
Create a life around them I get to know them like my sibling or my best friend I
Understand like she won't do this or she would do this or maybe if she was put in this position
this is how she would react I know them so well that you can throw any scene at me and I'll know what what the
periphery of my character will be
I love it when directors sort of you know throw
Googlies, oh my God I can say googly. I'm in england people will actually understand me. It's a crate Kaylie
Hello, you know yeah there you go here a long time, but okay alright, then Mr.. Maggie
So curveball looking like the controller well laughter. You're like a direct
Yeah, you can throw a curveball at you and and it makes you better as an actor because you're like
Okay, that can happen and that's what acting is
It's it's a hundred percent prep before
You come onto set and then between action and cut you can't remember anything you've prepped. It's just pure instinct right and
Like that's when I think Magic happens
And you need to be present in that in that moment and be that person and don't overthink it
No, not at all because you've done thinking right the overthinking and I'm very ocd about life in General
I need organization, and I cook I constantly live in Chaos, but I'm always seeking organization
So I do all my prep beforehand, so when I come onto said, I don't think about it. I don't have my notes
I don't have my scripts are usually that fat. I don't keep anything with me
I walk on and I be in on set and I I enjoy the environment
And I try and become the character and I let myself
Lose the trappings of everything that I had thought oh my God my dress is like
Tight or my hair is too hair sprayed, or what my lipstick looks like between action and cut is like
meditation
its spirituality
something
It's it's so beautifully creative
I feel like we're so lucky as actors to be able to do what we do
Because of something spiritual about it at least for me. Do you have idols you look up to either on stage or screen?
Um I you know because I ever grew up wanting to be an actor that was not my ambition
I'm like a kid in a china like a kid in a toy shop
China shop too sometimes, but a kid in a toy shop like I meet new people and I learn from them
I have everything I am today is an amalgamation of everyone
I've worked with I mean actors and I watch and I'm like oh
That's cool about that bus and I want to try that and I mean someone announced else and I'll be like ok so I've imbibed
From different people so I can't say I had like one idol Id or meryl streep. I'm
an absolute
Fan just like the whole world because of her ability to reinvent herself and being fearless when it comes to her parts and not
Caring about the fact that there's a camera and there are five hundred lights and three hundred people watching you
But like doesn't matt Kate Kate blanchet another one that I just I'm really admire just because of that ability
Okay, all right success in Bollywood. Can I call it that? I hate it. Okay? I know yeah
I know you hate that why do you hate that term cuz we're not first of all hollywood is a place
Bonnie was not a place. It's
It's a term right which we've been given for some reason
Second it makes Indian films sound like the Remmy 2 of Hollywood which they are not they're their own
Identity they have their own kind of films. They make their own kind of Moving's
Just like America does we all have our stereotypes everywhere
We go in the world, but it reduces us to a zumba class or like a flavor
I saw Bollywood flavored popcorn once and I was like
How do you flavor like pop you? What does that mean?
so that
It's not like I don't like the term I hate the connotation that comes with it okay, and it's a missus
It shows a misunderstanding yes, it's a misunderstanding that we're just people who break out into random song and dance without any context
You will see like if we win a world cup Indians will dance. We have babies. We will dance
There's a dance party at the drop of a hat Indian weddings last five days. That's us as a culture. That's who we are
We're twenty five people that come out of one car. We we are we eat together. We make merry together
That's just our nature
So when the singing and dancing happens your screenplay still goes forward people don't realize that that there's a story being told through song
So it's not like I'm so glad la-la-land did well, and as well as it did because now people will understand that
All movies are not like that
It's not a musical because you break out into randomly it's it's telling a story through cultural
And that's the connotation that people don't understand it gets reduced
We also make incredible movies that have art and are supported by music
Which it always will be because that's who we are and at the same time when I work in America
I mean the stereotypes of American movies are there everything's a superhero and their cars blowing up everywhere
but that doesn't mean you don't have the moon lights of the world you don't have joys of the world you know, so
I think that that's that's what I try to fight when it comes to the word party flow, okay?
I won't use that word ever again um why why come to Hollywood?
Was that always in the cards for you to come to the states whether in television or now?
you know in a big movie actually no it never was an ambition my ambition always was as
an artist to be able to grow I
English and Hindi both are my first languages. I speak them with as much or as bad as last week, either. Oh
So when the opportunities came my way
I was I had a talent deal with ABc where they find you a show that works for you I?
Met the Vp of casting at a party while I was doing music in America. I love music
So I was doing music just because I love it
And I met her at a party when I was in La and she just said you know you'd be such a great I
Hate the word crossover too, but you'd be such a you fit in into
Mainstream I didn't understand what she meant at that point and she explained to me
She's like you know you you have a uniqueness and at the same that makes you Indian
But at the same time you're not alien enough that people don't understand you I?
Didn't I don't know what she was talking about? I just loved the idea of being able to explore
Different content and to be able to you know work in and work with different people, and I'm still working in Indian films
I work in Indian films in America. Hopefully maybe in the uk I would love that please listen to that
You're producing some as well. Yes. I'm producing movies. I just as a creative person
I just want to go where my work takes me the world is too small now to
Divide Ourselves, you know borders don't exist when it comes to art and entertainment because of the internet anymore hmm, what cell they like I?
love La I love La because I
Just I just like me some californication. Let's just say the weather is great. I love the fact that
The fact that you know there's a chill about La people are not
always in a rush like I've lived in Mumbai in New York
Which are which are cities which are constantly on the go? I don't live in La very much
I just visit so whenever I go. It's like going for like a chill fest. I'm going to a spa
Talk to me about quantico. Yes um
It's doing really well coming up in the next the third season that was that was your your first thing
Yes, if first thing ever okay. Oh outside of music. I mean acting yeah. What was that experience like what did you learn?
There's real edge to that show right
it's very current and kind of the
Feeling of what's happening currently in this world as play it plays on the anxieties
And we don't understand the future, and I don't live in America anymore, but I know that's on people's minds
what's it like being a part of that and
Being that character which they kind of rewrote the backstory of that character just a little bit just tweaked it in the right
It wasn't really rewritten so when quantico came to me
And I loved it like I said I had a talent deal so I read about 26 scripts that ABC was
Making the pilots of that year. I had three favorites one didn't even get picked up
Wasn't him get made and the other one was quantico
when I auditioned for it for the first time
when I was it was written for an Indian girl
And I didn't know what that meant in Mainstream America because this was this is a mainstream part so I remember asking them that
Because it was very important to me to not be stereotyped
I had told ABc when we had our first conversation that if you're gonna come to me with
My big fat Indian wedding, I don't want to do that
I'm an actor and I'm so much more than my ethnicity and I want to be taken seriously for that
The fact that my character that I'm Indian
I'm indian because I just am we don't have to hit the nail on the head with it and
Kudos to them they found me quantico, and I'm glad I got the job because it was written for an American girl
And I told her showrunner that I said he wanted to change
I remember we had a conversation about should we change the name should it not be alex should it be an Indian name
My assistant is Indian and her name is Jennifer
There are no rules in the world anymore, and I like breaking rules. I find that fascinating
I think rules are boring and
It's it's fun when you when you can be a little rebellious when it comes to at least creativity and entertainment
so I was really glad what was
incorporated to explain
Me I guess when when you're in the FBI you have to be
American-Born so to explain that
we we explain the fact that my dad was American and a mum was Indian and
That's how but it's not an important part of the story alex is a badass FBI agent
now cia who has Saved America twice and and
and you know I as an actor got the ability to do that and with
Quantico the show that's gone to about 68 countries around the world in our first season to get that kind of reception
It was really cool because I was nervous. I was nervous that how would
America and Global entertainment react to an Indian girl plane the American Hero
But it doesn't matter as long as you're convincing as a part and the success of quantico showed that to me
And I hope that it opens up the doors for a lot more actors from around the world to be a part of global entertainment
Does it come back to confidence again? Do you walk on that set confident well to be honest?
I was very scared when I was going for my audition. I I so stupid it was such a rom-Com
It sounds fake when I said, but it happened
So I'm into the bathroom right before I was supposed to go in for my audition and never auditioned because I was miss world
Right like we talked about when I started doing movie got the job so I got the job because I was miss world and then
I was good in my film, so I got better jobs
I mean, you don't you can't consistently you know milk the miss one thing you kind of had to deliver as well, so
After that people had seen my work. I had a body of work, but in America people hadn't seen that I
Haven't done anything in the English language, so when I went in to audition, I was like
I was so stressed because I was I was thinking that
Because I had to work on an American accent. I had had a diction coach. I worked with her. I wanted to be
all-American because that's what my part demanded which doesn't mean I need to change myself as a person and
That was the fun of it
So I had done all my prep and I walked into the bathroom
How stressing out and I was like oh my God I have to go in and I'm gonna
What if I would what it took me three days to say counterterrorism. Task force in an American accent
Three days because I couldn't say terrorism which is four syllables in one tears
Terrorism
Counterterrorism, task Force very good took me a second, but I talked to myself in the mirror. I said you've done so many movies
What is wrong with you? All you have to do is fit your lines out like you
Do you know your character? So I taught myself confidence before I walked into the room back to the old days
You're now a TV star
Now you put it on the line and go for a big hollywood movie this seems like a pattern in your life
You know you could have waited why do that now because then eventually I'm a features girl
I mean, I've never done TV quantico's my first experience with television Baywatch is my 51st movie
So I'm more comfortable
Comes to features television is a beast I do not know how you do it, but I don't know how people
Especially when your network TV and into a 22-episode one-hour drama
It's it's about 910 months of your life with you know 12 hour
15 hour days every single Day and on the weekends you're doing promotion
So I features is where my heart lies I love TV for the characters that
That I get to play honestly if you if you think about it television is a lot
ahead in terms of
diversity in terms of female parts than movies
But I still of course wanted to still continue doing movies
That's why I decided to do it together, okay talking about diversity. I know you have your own production company. Yes
Television is this long-form storytelling process. We haven't ever seen this really in the history. Yeah, it's amazed me Dia
I just had Robert Magee on who's kind of the the guru of screenwriting right? And so he's he's in his 70s
He's very grumpy, but he was over here and talked about how he never saw this coming
But all of a sudden like I'm sure people fall in love with you over three
Seasons and want to go and now they know you yeah
Talk to me about diversity
Where are we where do we need to go do we need female producers like you to get us there I?
Don't it's unfortunate if we need female producers to get us there if we need females to champion females?
I think feminism needs men and
Feminism needs men who have the courage to stand by the women in their lives and the women in Society and not
Too many men have that but it's amazing when you see men who actually do that
Who's who walk the talk?
You know who are producers like my producers on on Baywatch for example my character was written for a woman for a man
Romanian and the Producers thought that it would be so cool to have a woman take on the Rock and
zach and for the the villain to be a female character and
my it was so important to my director that that's what happens and to give Victoria a
Backstory which does which so she's not just an evil bitch gonna say that sorry so she's not just an evil evil
person she has a reason she's a woman playing ballin in the man's world, and she's businesswomen and
She you know was passed over for her family business because her brother was boy
even though she had business acumen so we gave her a backstory which was rewritten and
Incorporated in once I came on board the movie, and that's what you need you need filmmakers like that
And these are all men including Dwayne Johnson who was extremely excited about
Turning this character female extremely excited about making all the female lifeguards as well in this movie extremely empowered
badass instead of just
Objectification, so you need producers and filmmakers, I think like that that are progressive
And I hope that has that is not just women yes. We definitely need to see more women come out produce and direct
It's very difficult
It's not easy to be I mean I'm talking about it a lot of the girls who work in the entertainment business
Probably don't speak about it as much because they don't want to sound like
you know
It's not the sympathy that you want that. Oh my god as a girl. You don't get the jobs. It's hard
We're willing to work for it, and we'll demand it, but it's important to say even as a female actor sometimes
Like if you just think about business all right think about how much money box-office wise
Films that are led by boys do compared to films that are led by females
And I'm talking about the biggest actors in the world if you if you count them, I'm not considering me at all
It's just that just shows you where society is and that's why because it's consumption
Where there is a demand there will be a supply that means that many more people go out and watch that
It's a mindset that needs to change and it's a global thing so I feel like the more conversations that happen the more people see
examples like
Me playing the villain in Baywatch or or wonder woman or so many female?
Stronger characters that are coming out right now the more people will understand that that's also
Entertainment has nothing to do with gender, and I guess when it comes to diversity
It's the same thing the best person for the job should get the job
And you're the botts should have nothing to do with ethnicity in the first place
ethnically ambiguous
I think is the way to go when it comes to diversity
Look at Baywatch as a TV show in the 80s and look at Baywatch the movie, and it wasn't thought of it
Wasn't like people were like alright. Let's get someone of this ethnicity and then someone of that and mix it up
It was just the best people for the job that came together, and it looks like what the world looks like today
And that's the kind of representation. We need on television and movies
There's a lot in the movie where you say bond villain. Did you write that line?
Oh my God coming up next it was a it was definitely it came from my brain
I'm a big fan of the franchise
I love the bond franchise, and I mean I would love in my lifetime to see a female bond. Oh yeah
That's what that's what I thought. I would want to be one but if you were James Bond
Absolutely, and I would be James not Jane
I love men's name for women, but I don't I don't I don't know if that'll happen
But it'll be really cool to see you know
Such iconic characters become genderless
It'll be fun to to be able to see that and I I do hope it happens. I think the world craves
Empowered women roles like look at Ripley from aliens look at terminator like we love those women that are owning it
Maybe when it's written and really
Congruent and the actress just owns it, but yeah
There's not enough to whew yeah it and it happens once in a blue moon where you're like?
Oh my God, this was a breakout part for this girl, but it should be norm
You know that should be the normal how do you become one of times?
100 most influential people does it have something to do with your work for unicef or is it a bunch of things I?
Don't think so. I don't think philanthropy is makes you an influential philanthropy is that comes from your heart I?
and then and yes, I know there's
There's people out there for who?
Philanthropy is a part of their image for me. It's been a part of my life
my parents always were very socially conscientious and very aware of what's happening in the world and and
Giving back as doctors. I remember since I was a baby. We always had like two hospital beds
Which were always free of cost anyone could come anytime nobody there be no questions asked and there will be treatment I
remember like
you know my dad and mom used to during my summer vacations we used to take the ambulance out into Villages of India and
Just you know take and free treatment just for people who can't come into hospitals. So my parents were always aware of it
You know so when I?
became Miss world, and I saw the
position and the power
That I have being a public person. I became extremely socially aware and I said that
This is this is something that has been given to me on a platter
Which is this position that I have the fact people might not adhere to what I say
but they will at least hear me it might stay somewhere what I'm saying there might be an
opinion there might be a debate it might spark off a
Conversation and that in itself is my job done because as a public person I bring light or attention
To something that might not have it and that's what I do for unicef. I've been their ambassador now for 15 years
10 years as a national ambassador for India and now about one and a half years or so
As their global ambassador and I think I think influence is a state of mind
I don't think it's something you do I don't think it's your actions. I think it's
Who you are and being comfortable with who you are that influences other people to say? Oh, okay?
Maybe I could do that or alright. I?
Can think like that it's not that hard. I think that's what influences. I wouldn't like to put the burden of philanthropy on it and
Philanthropy is between you and God. I guess comes back to confidence. I'm gonna name this episode confidence um
You know I was watching you on the movie last night
And I just kind of noticed you know between you and the rock you kind of have similar stories of learning the craft
You know what I remember. I actually remember him in London like 8 or 10 years ago
I saw him at a gym in his hollywood acting career was just starting and no one would ever go anywhere
And when I see him act I feel like that guy really worked on this
And that was the two things I was seeing about the two of you
You know we've talked about that like when I first met Dwayne, and we have the same agency
So we'd call we talked a couple of times and he's been so
Wonderfully
Encouraging of me and he always said that to me. He said you know you and I have the same DnA
We have the same dna we don't forget where we come from and he doesn't I see that about him like now
I know him for a while
And he's he's a dear friend and someone
I completely admire
And I understand why he's one of the biggest movie stars in the world
Because he doesn't forget where he came from I I remember we were at an event
and
So we were at an event and there was someone who was you know who was who's a part of like there was no questions
That this person was being able to ask
because you know there were there were so many other people who were getting the attention, and I remember dwayne noticed that and
Pointed out to this person and told him. What's your question? Why don't you ask it and
This girl was like really nervous and but she got the opportunity and I taught and I remember it
After we finished. I told him I said you know that I understand swear makes you
Who you are he was like Priyanka? I remember being in that place
I remember when no one wanted to ask me a thing and I get that I
Remember when and I still am like sometimes there's so many fights that I do
But I remember when nobody want to do you know what in my opinion?
Or I remember when I had to work on when I was just the side chick to the guy
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Your grief when you lose something like that or someone like that, and I tell that to everyone because we all lose people
who we love you have to
Keep them in a part of your heart as your constant, and then you don't grieve for them anymore
Then you remember the good things like I remember my dad's laughter every time I have won an award
You know those annoying parents were like really like that's my child that was my dad nice feeling dan stop it
It wasn't my 55th award stop him, but he used to be my greatest champion
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