Freida

Actor Freida Pinto, who rose to fame with her role in Danny Boyle`s `Slumdog Millionaire` talked about her future projects and said that she doesn`t want to confine herself to Hollywood, reported Variety. "I`ve always looked at cinema globally," she told Variety. "After `Slumdog,` I could have easily played all the Indian roles, the girlfriends and sidekicks, or just gone and done something only in India." Talking about playing challenging roles like playing a Palestinian girl in `Miral`, which is a biographical…

In your latest film, Mr Malcolm’s List, you are cast with no regard to skin colour or race, as was your Slumdog ex, Dev Patel, in The Personal History of David Copperfield. Colour-blind casting is great, obviously, but why does it seem to have only affected period dramas, or do we not notice it elsewhere? TopTrampPeriod dramas are the one area it was completely unheard of. If you look at, say, Star Wars , Riz Ahmed’s character did not have to be painted as south Asian or Muslim. He just existed in that world. I’ve been in…

Mumbai-born actor Freida Pinto found fame after being cast in 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire: she had been working as a model for Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, Škoda and Vodafone, and was picked by Danny Boyle to star as the love interest to British-born star Dev Patel. (Boyle, meanwhile, cast Patel on the recommendation of his daughter who had seen him in Skins.)After Slumdog cleaned up at the award dos, Pinto went on to become a household name, with the unusual career trajectory for an Indian actor of having not featured in any…