From Miss World to Bollywood actor, singer, film producer and Hollywood star, Priyanka Chopra Jonas has worn many hats over the last two decades.
So it’s not surprising that he thinks that “the evolution and reinvention is the name of the game.” “We can not be the same person we were five or ten years ago.
We must continue to change because if you do not evolve, you will be left behind,” he said at times Litfest.
While discussing the memoirs ‘unfinished’ with Vinita Dawra nangia, he describes the process of writing the book because exhilarating and exhausting.
“I’ve been a private person all my life and I can play around with the surface but because I’m home during Covid, it helped to dig.” He added that “he wanted to tell the story as I will be a friend over coffee,” so he chose to record his thoughts and then transcribes them instead of typing them.
“As a public person, no one really knows you,” he said.
“I chose to dig in because I felt it was so much written about me and I just wanted to give people insight on what I actually do.”
Chopra major break in the West comes from when Alex Parrish major role in the TV show ‘Quantico’, a character he says proudly.
“I have not seen too many women who are India’s leading TV and movie in America,” he said.
“I am proud to be able to play the character of the mainstream without being burdened by my heritage, which should be an asset.”
Talking about his marriage to American pop singer Nick Jonas, he said that both share a creative partnership and often reflect ideas with one another.
“One thing that my marriage taught me is to have your partner give you confidence and full credit to the work you do.
It’s amazing when I see how Nick accommodate career and my choice,” he said.
“I did not realize that I need my partner to understand the value of how hard work I did to build this career.” Incidentally Jonas favorite PC movie is ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’, which he watched several times.
