{"id":6756,"date":"2016-08-18T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T01:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2019-06-15T20:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T00:23:04","slug":"priyanka-chopras-exclusive-interview-i-dont-like-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/priyanka-chopras-exclusive-interview-i-dont-like-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Chopra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Exclusive Interview: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Like Losing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>No one would ever not call <span style=\"color: #bf2448;\">Priyanka Chopra<\/span> ambitious. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s currently in NYC filming the second season of <em>Quantico<\/em> and we will all see her make her Hollywood film debut in the upcoming Baywatch remake. Despite her busy schedule, she recently shot for FLARE magazine and did a live chat with the magazine and her fans on Facebook.<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567559152_1.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoGrid_1471567559152_1\" width=\"459\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567559152_1.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567559152_1-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/h4>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0039743795063875\" data-ad-slot=\"8854053477\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Here are some of the excerpts from her interview.<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #bf2448;\">On her beauty pageant start:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Priyanka had set her sights on studying engineering but her mother sent her head shots to the Miss India pageant. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just went to the pageant to skip my exams,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she explains. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t my dream to be a pageant queen. It was just drive. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like losing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #bf2448;\">On politics and social issues:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>She loves Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and is very opinionated on social issues like condemning violence against women and female genital mutilation. Her acute interest in world issues came from her family, with whom she is still exceptionally close\u00e2\u20ac\u201dher mother often travels with her for projects across the world, and her only tattoo is a commemoration of her late father: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Daddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lil girl,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d traced up her wrist from his own handwriting. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My parents raised me to be a thinking girl,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our dinner table discussions were always, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhat are the relevant issues right now?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567538094_1.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoGrid_1471567538094_1\" width=\"471\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567538094_1.jpg 564w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567538094_1-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #bf2448;\">On acting:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great time to be a female actor right now, especially if you stand your ground,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t settle.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #bf2448;\">On her new found celebrity in America:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>&#8220;Mainstream America is getting to know me through&nbsp;<em>Quantico<\/em>, and now they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re discovering my Indian films,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a cool cultural exchange for me, because I get people writing to me, saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWe watched our first Indian movie on Netflix.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 I feel amazing that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been able to introduce a new audience to those films\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand an Indian audience to an American show.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h4>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567548686_1.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoGrid_1471567548686_1\" width=\"516\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567548686_1.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PhotoGrid_1471567548686_1-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #bf2448;\">On being stereotyped:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Storytelling cannot be based on what someone looks like,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she says. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone has stories: you have a story; I have a story. They just need to be written. And casting needs to happen based on the best person for the job, not the Indian girl or the black girl. The girl next door is no longer blonde-haired and blue-eyed, nor is she brown-haired and brown-eyed. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not one person. And our entertainment needs to be a representation of that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #bf2448;\">On the infamous over-airbrushed armpit on Maxim India:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>Rather than making a big deal out of it, she responded by posting an unfiltered pic of her pit with the hashtag #WillTheRealArmpitPleaseStandUp. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s when you know you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she jokes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When your armpit is trending.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h4>\n<h4>To read the full interview, pick up Flare magazine on the stands now or go to flare.com!<\/h4>\n<p>*************<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #f50f44;\">WHERE ELSE TO FIND ME!<\/span><br \/>\nFACEBOOK: <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/miss.amindhillon\">http:\/\/facebook.com\/miss.amindhillon<\/a><br \/>\nINSTAGRAM: <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/amindhillon\">http:\/\/instagram.com\/amindhillon<\/a><br \/>\nYouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/theglamourg\">www.youtube.com\/theGlamourG<\/a><br \/>\nTWITTER: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/amindhillon\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/amindhillon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one would ever not call Priyanka Chopra ambitious. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s currently in NYC filming the second season of Quantico and we will all see her make her Hollywood film debut in the upcoming Baywatch remake. Despite her busy schedule, she recently shot for FLARE magazine and did a live chat with the magazine and her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[641,208],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-flare-magazine","tag-priyanka-chopra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7993,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions\/7993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amindhillon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}