When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it’s the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.
I tell you why I like Chanel so much: when I started off, no one wanted to give me clothes to wear. Absolutely no one! All the labels said, ‘Who is she?’ But Chanel believed in me from the very beginning.
I went to an all-girls’ Christian convent school run by nuns. It was fun, but when I was 15, I said, ‘Mum, that’s it – I need to go where there are some boys.’
I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I’m proud to be a part of that cultural shift.
One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.
In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.
If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like ‘Gone With the Wind.’ And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there’s something so absolutely romantic about it.
A lot of the younger Indian generation are either IT geniuses or doctors – the number of doctors I’ve seen in L.A. who are Indian is just crazy. So it is a very common thing. Or an accountant! That again is a very, very big thing.