Priyanka Chopra’s little diary of secrets from ‘Quantico’ journey
Mumbai: Much to everyone’s surprise, Bollywood actress and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra turned heads and raised eyebrows as she signed the most coveted project of her life.
The actress, who stars in ABC’s new television series ‘Quantico’, shared through her little diary, that she maintained to keep a track of every big and small event of her life, that she did not see this massive news making its way to the Indian and international media. Holding strong to her ground Priyanka and her manager in the U.S. were having sleepless nights, all because of one project, ‘Quantico’. PeeCee also admits to juggling her professional life in India as well as the U.S even if it kills her.
Here is a snippet from her little diary of secrets:
My life's seriously hectic right now, and sometimes there's that moment where I suddenly look up from what I'm preoccupied with and am unable to pinpoint where I am and what I'm doing.
The blame for that is all on me and if I could change that … I honestly wouldn't. I am getting to do what I love to do, so why knock a gift-horse in the mouth, I say. But it does create some bizarre time warp moments. One solution I found for this a few months ago (no … it doesn't include doing less) is to keep track of it all in some way in a diary! It's an old-school version … no laptops or iPads for this one … I simply pen my thoughts, emotions and experiences … I believed it would help me relive and also relish some of the finer moments.
So when The Hollywood Reporter asked me to give them a breakdown of the madness surrounding my U.S. television debut, my little diary came in handy.
Dear Diary (LOL, I had to!) — I had just fallen into a deep sleep, the kind where your body is completely relaxed and your mind is free to wander. I'm in the middle of shooting a film and we're on the "graveyard" shift, so the days are my nights and the nights my days. I've been on edge the past few days, answering every call from my U.S. manager, Anjula Acharia-Bath, on the first ring anxiously awaiting the news from ABC about whether Quantico was given the green light. I'm somewhat of an all or nothing kind of person (I've always been that way, especially with my work), so needless to say missing puzzle pieces make me anxious. I like to see and know what the big picture is going to look like, and this "unknown" about Quantico has been a big piece missing from my puzzle. Until …
"Wake up, wake up, wake up!" I could hear my mom calling out to me as she simultaneously banged my bedroom door down. I somehow stumbled out of bed, suddenly worried that something bad had happened. "It's Anjula," she said breathlessly, "It's about Quantico!" When Anjula couldn't reach me (she called five times), she called mom and pretty much instructed her to do anything in her means to wake me up!
From the moment I started my international sojourn, with music and everything else that came after, my experiences and interactions with various people (especially those of Indian descent) created a burning desire to want to represent my country. To show the world that we are so much more than we are given credit for. No one obligated me to do so. I consciously (and at the same time subconsciously) put that pressure on myself. It's something I feel very deeply about, something I have always felt. So, for me, this was one step in the right direction. To have an Indian actress at the helm of a major U.S. TV series, produced by one of the biggest networks in the world! It's a good start.
