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Sarita Choudhury
English
Actress
Born:
Aug 18
,
1966
Am
Love
Me
People
Theatre
You
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See, all actors pretend. I enjoy that pretence. I don't wear heels in real life, but if it is for a character, I love to get into the traits of the person I am playing.
Sarita Choudhury
Life
Love
Character
Real Life
Enjoy
Pretence
Pretend
Wear
See
Am
Real
Person
Get
Traits
Heels
Actor
Playing
Having grown up in different countries - Jamaica, Italy, U.K. - I catch the accents quite easily. In the U.S., they don't know where I am from!
Sarita Choudhury
Easily
Having
Catch
Countries
Know
Accents
Am
Italy
Up
Quite
Where
Different
Jamaica
Different Countries
Grown
Grown-Up
There is this film called 'La Femme Nikita.' I want to play something like that. This woman with a gun in her hand but with tears in her eyes. I would love to play that kind of vulnerability on screen.
Sarita Choudhury
Love
Woman
Eyes
Tears
Gun
On-Screen
Kind
Would
Something
Like
Vulnerability
Femme
Hand
La
Screen
Want
Film
Play
Her
I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place.
Sarita Choudhury
Life
Work
Travel
My Life
Match
Want
Place
Then
Now
Playing Frida was hard and wonderful. I found such a force in her, bigger than me. I tried to make it just a woman who had to do what she did. A woman who lived, ate, and laughed. I tried to avoid the 'icon' of Frida Khalo.
Sarita Choudhury
Me
Woman
Wonderful
Laughed
Ate
Tried
Had
She
Force
Make
Frida
Than
Did
Just
Bigger
Icon
Hard
Avoid
Who
Lived
Found
Her
Playing
Some people are very ambitious and plan their whole careers, but I am not that kind of a person.
Sarita Choudhury
People
Some People
Kind
Some
Am
Ambitious
Very
Person
Plan
Whole
Careers
I live in New York. I go to dance class; I do theatre. When things are sent to me, if I like them, I push to do them. And I would absolutely love to do anything that's part of my dad's homeland.
Sarita Choudhury
Love
Me
Class
Theatre
Dance
Live
Would
Absolutely
Push
Part
New
Like
Go
York
New York
Anything
Sent
Them
Homeland
Dad
Things
I have an Indian father, and when you grow up in a house with an Indian father, culturally, that's what becomes dominant in the house. So that's the tradition we grew up with.
Sarita Choudhury
You
Father
Indian
House
Becomes
Tradition
Up
Dominant
Grew
Grow
Grow Up
The first time I put on the hijab, it felt weird, like I was wearing a scuba-diving suit kind of thing.
Sarita Choudhury
Time
First
Kind
Wearing
Put
Weird
Like
Felt
First Time
Thing
Suit
It was strange wearing the scarf and the hijab until I got used to it.
Sarita Choudhury
Strange
Wearing
Scarf
Until
Got
Used
If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will not imitate them.
Sarita Choudhury
Character
Try
Will
Imitate
About
Read
Am
Historical
Person
Them
Watch
Playing
I think I have a certain awkwardness, and I don't know how that works on screen.
Sarita Choudhury
Think
On-Screen
Know
How
Screen
Certain
Works
Awkwardness
My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't.
Sarita Choudhury
Time
Director
Woman
Thought
First
Would
Would-Be
Easy
First Time
It's like everyone says they love my body, but then I'm supposed to lose weight.
Sarita Choudhury
Love
Lose
Everyone
Says
Weight
Like
Supposed
Then
Body
Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.
Sarita Choudhury
Life
Good
You
Sports
Enjoy Life
Enjoy
Unless
Dancing
Like
Practise
Passionately
Artiste
Cannot
Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.
Sarita Choudhury
You
Theatre
Words
Speak
Drive
Action
Highly
Terms
Get
Satisfying
Monologues
My early acting was ingenue stuff.
Sarita Choudhury
Stuff
Ingenue
Acting
Early
I live in New York, so I don't get that many Indian scripts.
Sarita Choudhury
Live
Indian
New
Get
York
New York
Scripts
Many
I love Bollywood films, but I have been trained in independent cinema.
Sarita Choudhury
Love
Cinema
Films
Independent
Been
Trained
Bollywood
Theatre reminds me of Bollywood.
Sarita Choudhury
Me
Theatre
Reminds
Bollywood
I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.
Sarita Choudhury
Parents
Countries
Accents
Always
Doing
Italy
Jamaica
Loved
Including
Lived
Number
No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.
Sarita Choudhury
Time
News
Matter
Slightly
Feel
Read
How
How Much
Much
Ignorant
I wanted to move between film and theater - I never felt like I fit into TV. And I'm very anti-TV, like, 'I'm never going to do TV,' but also, TV didn't want me either, so it was kind of perfect. And then, of course, cable happened, and suddenly it was like, 'Oh, I could do that kind of stuff.'
Sarita Choudhury
Me
Kind
TV
Perfect
Could
Cable
Never
Between
Stuff
Like
Also
Course
Felt
Fit
Very
Going
Move
Oh
Want
Wanted
Happened
Either
Theater
Then
Suddenly
Film
When you have a good director, it's just wonderful.
Sarita Choudhury
Good
You
Director
Wonderful
Just
Good Director
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