English - Actress | August 18, 1966 -
Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.
Sarita Choudhury
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I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see.
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Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo.
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People have this impression that once you move to America, that becomes your interest. But I never moved to Los Angeles; I stayed in New York because I do theatre, so my aim is not just Hollywood.
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Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.
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I live in New York. I go to dance class; I do theatre. When things are sent to me, if I like them, I push to do them. And I would absolutely love to do anything that's part of my dad's homeland.
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I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with.
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The first time I put on the hijab, it felt weird, like I was wearing a scuba-diving suit kind of thing.
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I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to me.
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For me, what is important is to bring the inner life of these characters - their strengths, contradictions, anguish and triumph - alive.
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If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will not imitate them.
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In America, they often don't know where I am from. The important point is the audience should not be able see through it. It should be so natural that your close friends may even think that you are not a great actor.
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