Looks like, no one can stop Priyanka Chopra from chasing her dreams! After making waves in Hollywood by her kick-ass performance in the American TV series Quantico, the actress is breaking the internet again as she has just been featured on Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world List.
With this feather in her cap, Priyanka becomes the second Indian actress to feature on the cover of Time magazine after Aishwarya Rai.
I was treated as a dime a dozen, says Priyanka
The actress spoke to the magazine about breaking the Bollywood stereotype and says that actress she was treated as a dime a dozen.
“When I was very young, I was 19 and I was doing the first few movies, I remember that my dates weren’t working out. My scheduling wasn’t working out for a movie with a very big actor. And the producer said, ‘Well, she can’t work it out, it’s fine, we’ll just cast someone else. Or, you know what? I’ll launch a new girl because girls are replaceable.’ I didn’t understand it then. But I think subconsciously it really worked on my mind, and I started picking up parts which were strong, which were not just the damsel in distress waiting for someone to rescue me. As much as I like being rescued. Every girl does … Now 13, 15 years later, whatever, I think that the movies that I do, I’m irreplaceable and the boys are replaceable.”
Now that's quite hard-hitting and clearly something that only Priyanka can say. In the past as well, Priyanka has been known for being quite picky about her roles.
After the list was out an excited Priyanka took to Instagram and posted a pic on what her Baywatch co-star Dwayne Johnson had said about her to Time magazine.
"Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards -- a massive star. When we connected around the time she started Quantico, we immediately hit it off. She has drive, ambition, self-respect, and she knows there’s no substitute for hard work. It’s an amazing time to watch as she pierces the US market. She has an ability to inspire people to do more and achieve more. When I look at her success from the 50,000 feet view and see everything that Priyanka has already done, is currently doing and has the desire and the bandwidth to do, I can see that her impact is going to be invaluable,” Johnson wrote in the note.
A photo posted by Priyanka Chopra (@priyankachopra) on
Read on to know how Priyanka reacted to the news on Twitter!
Even Priyanka took to twitter and wrote that she was so excited to feature on the list. Here's what she said.
She even congratulated Sania Mirza, who also features on the list, and tweeted:
Other Indians on the list
Apart from Priyanka, there are seven other Indians on the Time most influential list including tennis ace Sania Mirza, Google's Indian-American chief executive Sundar Pichai, Environmentalist Sunita Narain, Sachin and Binny Bansal and Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan.
Other big names from the entertainment industry whose names have been featured in the list include British singer Adele, comedian Aziz Ansari, actor Gael GarcÃa Bernal, actor Idris Elba, singer Ariana Grande, actress Taraji P. Henson, filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, actor Oscar Isaac, reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner, actor Dwayne Johnson, model Karlie Kloss, rapper Kendrick Lamar, actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress Melissa McCarthy, actress Gina Rodriguez, actor Mark Rylance, and actress Charlize Theron.
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