F**k it, I'm going to America': Priyanka Chopra Jonas reveals she QUIT Bollywood as she was 'tired of the politics'
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Priyanka Chopra Jonas has been making quite a few headlines recently whether it was about her and Nick Jonas welcoming their daughter, Malti Marie Jonas, seizing the lead in the romantic comedy 'Love Again' opposite Sam Heughan and Celine Dion or about to star in Prime's upcoming spy series, 'Citadel' which also features 'Eternals' actor, Richard Madden. Nevertheless, it is no secret that Priyanka Chopra Jonas was previously a big movie star from the Hindi film fraternity otherwise known as Bollywood. Before she got into Bollywood, Priyanka Chopra Jonas also won the Miss World 2000 pageant. Furthermore, last year Priyanka Chopra Jonas was also named in the BBC 100 Women list.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is also one of India's highest-paid actresses. Her career started in 2003 when she starred in a movie called, 'The Hero: Love Story of a Spy' and worked for 12 years until she moved to Hollywood and starred as Alex Parrish in the ABC thriller series 'Quantico,' becoming the first South Asian to headline an American network drama series. Nevertheless, Chopra Jonas recently shared why she left her thriving movie career in Bollywood and "risked it all" to move to Hollywood. Read more to find out.
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A risky transition
In a recent interview with Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Chopra Jonas, who was a huge star in Bollywood revealed the "real" reason as to why she moved to the U.S. She said, "I was being pushed into a corner in the industry. I had people not casting me for reasons. I had a beef with people. Again, I’m not good at playing that game. I was tired of the politics." The 'Baywatch' star had a thriving career as a Bollywood actor in India before she came to the US but admitted that, at the time, she "just needed a break,” she said. That break from acting in India came when an opportunity to travel to America and work in the music industry was presented to her, which eventually led Chopra Jonas to sign a deal with Interscope Records as a singer in the early 2010s. “When this music thing came I was like, you know what, ‘f**k it.’ I’m going to go to America,” she said. After working with artists like Pitbull and Will.i.Am, Chopra Jonas said she realized that she was better suited to being an actor. She began pursuing roles in Hollywood because she felt she was “having trouble back home anyway just being cast in the kind of movies that I wanted to be cast in.” However, she seized a lead acting role in the U.S. with ABC’s 'Quantico.'
'Glam with Mama'
Furthermore, recently 'The Matrix Resurrections' star shared an adorable image on Instagram with Malti Marie Chopra Jonas, her daughter with husband Nick Jonas, 30. "Glam with mama," Chopra captioned the photo. In the image, Chopra is pursing her lips in the direction of a makeup brush while Malti Marie stares up at her mother.
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Next up for the actor is the Russo Brothers’ Amazon Prime Video series 'Citadel.'
