Priyanka Chopra may just be the biggest star India has exported to Hollywood but even she can sometimes experience injustice out there. In a recent interview to Instyle magazine, the actor recounted how she was once denied a role in a movie simply because of the colour of her skin.
When asked about how Hollywood is treating her when it comes to equal pay for women or for people of all ethnicities, she recalled an incident from last year. “I was out for a movie, and somebody [from the studio] called one of my agents and said, ‘She’s the wrong-what word did they used?- physicality.’ So in my defence as an actor, I’m like, ‘Do I need to be skinnier? Do I need to get in shape? Do I need to have abs?’ Like, what does ‘wrong physicality’ mean?… And then my agent broke it down for me. Like, ‘I think, Priy, they meant that they wanted someone who’s not brown.’ It affected me,” she said.
