PHOTO BY HILARY WALSH, STYLED BY LAURIE TROTT, HAIR BY ADIR ABERGEL, MAKUP BY JILLIAN DEMPSEY, NAILS BY NETTIE DAVIS.
NYLON X FREIDA PINTO
Meet our April cover girl!
With her worldly poise, international acclaim, and really cute smile, Freida Pinto is set to illuminate Hollywood this year - especially with her recent turn as Phaedra in The Immortals and her upcoming lead role in Trishna, a retelling of Tess of the Durbervilles set in rural India. Ellen Carpenter met the 27-year-old actress in Venice Beach, California to discuss her new projects.
On filming Trishna: Freida and Trishna are very, very different people, and that's why the character was even more intriguing for me to take on, because it's so opposite me...I didn't relate to her. I am not a silent sufferer like she is. She just would take on whatever pain that was given to her... I know people find it so hard to believe that women like this would exist in the 21st century but the truth of the matter is, they actually do!
On her first acting roles - dancing in front of her family's kitchen table. I'd be like, "Time to present!" I'd sing, I'd dance - I'd just put on a solo show like a schizo, playing all the characters.
On her goal of playing a range of ethnicities on film. Sometimes I get attacked for wanting to not just be an "Indian Actress." It's funny because I think a British actor can play an American or an Australian or French. But when I try and play roles where I could physically fit into that character, but maybe I'm not from that country, people are like, "Wait, why is an Indian actress playing that?" But why not, you know?
Plus: See Freida on NYLON TV!
On filming Trishna: Freida and Trishna are very, very different people, and that's why the character was even more intriguing for me to take on, because it's so opposite me...I didn't relate to her. I am not a silent sufferer like she is. She just would take on whatever pain that was given to her... I know people find it so hard to believe that women like this would exist in the 21st century but the truth of the matter is, they actually do!
On her first acting roles - dancing in front of her family's kitchen table. I'd be like, "Time to present!" I'd sing, I'd dance - I'd just put on a solo show like a schizo, playing all the characters.
On her goal of playing a range of ethnicities on film. Sometimes I get attacked for wanting to not just be an "Indian Actress." It's funny because I think a British actor can play an American or an Australian or French. But when I try and play roles where I could physically fit into that character, but maybe I'm not from that country, people are like, "Wait, why is an Indian actress playing that?" But why not, you know?
Plus: See Freida on NYLON TV!
This story was published on March 22, 2012.
CONTENT RATING:
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Hector M
03/22/2012
I don't have to subscribe to get my copy early. The Barnes and Noble I go to always has the new NYLON around the 20th. And this issue is pretty sweet! From the cover star, to the fashion and beauty, and the Lace Parasol!
daisy
03/22/2012
Incredible
daisy
03/22/2012
Wonderful experience
NB
03/24/2012
FANTASTIC CHOICE. so original. props for having an indian girl on the cover!
Big Cheif
03/25/2012
She should go back to Kitchen and make some food already
scrambledeggs3000
03/26/2012
Perhaps they are attacking you for being a "bad" Indian actress.
However, "Freida Pinto" is going to be the name of my next band...
Conalon
03/26/2012
Acting options in Hollywood are pretty limited for people of "color." I think Duane "The ROCK" Johnson is one of the few actors who has been able to transcend this issue. So, I say that if Frieda can do the same, she should go for it.
fez
03/29/2012
I'd like to park my Pinto into that Freida
Monica
03/29/2012
I might have squealed when I saw Freida Pinto in my mailbox. So glad to see Nylon put a woman of color on the cover (the last was...MIA? Zoe Saldana? And that was in 2010!) She's gorgeous.
JB
04/04/2012
Just got this issue today, the pictures inside are amazing, for once, better than the apps one, I am in love @_@, and Freida was amazing, it is one of the best photo session I have loved in the mag so far, although the cover didn't convinced me ( 'cause she looks to simple ) I shouldn't have judge its cover, it is NYLON after all <3 xo
Shania
04/16/2012
Freida Pinto is average looking and a talentless actress. Honestly what great acting has she done in any of her movies? Including Slumdog Millionare where she had like 3 scenes in the entire movie? She is all hype and has zero substance. There are better looking india girls then her, don't get the fuss over this woman.
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