‘It was very hurtful and…’ – Firstpost

Priyanka Chopra made her Bollywood debut in 2003 with Anil Sharma’s The Hero- Love Story Of A Spy. She later went on to be seen in films like Andaaz, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Aitraaz, Waqt, Don, Krrish, Fashion, Dostana, Kaminey, Don 2, Agneepath, Bajirao Mastani, and The Sky Is Pink.

The actress then moved to Hollywood in 2016 and ever since, has carved a successful career for herself in the West too. In India, she has SS Rajamouli’s Varanasi coming out next year in April. Chopra got married to singer Nick Jonas in 2018 and in an interview with Variety, recalled the time when this union invited a lot of reactions on social media.

Priyanka Chopra was quoted saying, “We’re eight years in. If people want to keep waiting for it to implode, that’s their choice. I stopped thinking about it. I don’t know what was it about us that rubbed people the wrong way. I think there was the intercultural nature of it.”

“Different countries, different religions, age gap. It was very hurtful. And we both, instead of looking out, just sort of looked at each other, and we were like, ‘It doesn’t matter.’ So it’s like water off a duck’s back now,” she added.

On
Nick Jonas

We got married really quick, within six months of meeting. When I first married him. I didn’t know if it was even real. This part of him. Because I was like this is crazy. This is put on. But Nick has this absolute sincerity. It inspires me every day in a profession which requires you to pivot and become whatever you need to put on.

In a recent interview with PTI from Los Angeles, the actress compared her career in Hindi cinema with the one she has in the West and said, “If you look at my Hindi filmography or Indian filmography, there’s a lot more variety than I have been able to achieve in my international work. I’m hoping to be able to create diversity and to be able to do really interesting work in my English-language work as well, like I did in my Bollywood films.”