Gone are the days when actors from different nationalities were restricted to playing roles based on their ethnicity, feels US-based Indian actress Freida Pinto. She also says that nobody is tagged as an American, British or Indian in the current film scenario worldwide.
The 31-year-old, who started her career in films with Slumdog Millionaire in 2008, says it will be “weird” if actors only get to play roles belonging to their nationalities.
“Actors - depending on what ethnicity he/she belongs to - want to enter the film world saying that they only want to play that ethnicity in their entire career gets a little weird because that will be very limiting in many ways,” Freida, who starred in the short film “Black Knight Decoded” for Pepsi, said.—IANS
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