Priyanka Chopra’s experience of leaving a film set that disrespected women: “I can’t look at him every day.

Last Updated on 06/03/2023 by てんしょく飯

Priyanka Chopra, a native of India who now works in Hollywood, opens up about an experience she had while working in Bollywood in which she turned in her money and walked off the set because she could not stand the “inhuman” treatment she received.

Leaving the set after turning over money to a director who disrespected women

Priyanka Chopra, winner of the Miss World 2000 pageant and an actress known for her roles in films such as “The Matrix Resurrections,” worked in the Indian film industry, known as Bollywood, before moving to Hollywood. In an interview with The Zoe Report, Priyanka Chopra talks about her early career experience of facing the “disrespect of women.

About 20 years ago, Priyanka was assigned to play an espionage role in her first Bollywood film. There was a scene where she had to take off her clothes to seduce a man she was undercover with, and she wanted to wear layers of clothes, but the director said, “No, we need to see her underwear. Otherwise, who would come to see this movie?” He said.

To make matters worse, the director made this remark in front of Priyanka, not to her but to the stylist. She felt she was not treated as a human being and that “I felt I had nothing to offer but to be used, that my abilities did not matter, that how I contributed did not matter.”

After this disrespectful behavior toward women by the director, Priyanka decided to drop the role after only two days of filming, as she felt that she “couldn’t look at him [her face] every day.” To do so, she paid the production company herself for the costs involved in dropping the role.

Priyanka has previously raised many issues regarding women’s rights in the film industry, such as the fact that female actors in Bollywood receive only one-tenth of the pay that male actors receive. The reason for this is to avoid leaving the discrimination against women that she has experienced to the next generation.

In 2017, she told Entertainment Tonight, “I will never compromise,” adding, “It takes people like me and many other women to make the next generation comfortable.”