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| | Freida Pinto: 'Maternity leave in this country is so badly handled' | | Added 822 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Freida Pinto is promoting Mr. Malcolm?s List, a project she stars in and executive produced. She worked for four years to get this period romantic-comedy made. I also forgot that Freida got married (to Cory Tran) and they live mostly in Austin, Texas, and that she welcomed a son (Rumi-Ray) last November. She has a lot going on, and she sounds very busy in this Glamour interview. She chats about motherhood, color-blind casting and why people love period romances. Some highlights:
The multiracial cast of Mr. Malcolm?s List: ?The idea was that [the director] Emma [Holly Jones] had just watched Hamilton and she was so inspired by it that she wanted to make Mr. Malcolms List in the same world as Hamilton, where we are multiracial, but were not really spending any time talking about race and were not spending any time trying to justify our presence in this film. She just wanted this movie to be a romantic comedy about people who fall in love.?
Bridgerton happened after they were pitching the movie: ?The Bridgerton effect impacted us getting financed, but didn?t impact the movie because the idea already existed even before Bridgerton, that this is how we wanted to do it.?
Why people love period romances: ?One of the things that Im thinking of right at the top of my head is that we all think about a time before cell phones, before technology. Everything was slower? We have all of these emotions that we crave for every single day in our lives. And like our crazy dating world today, where we just cant seem to find the person who feels like a perfect match?in so many ways, all of that existed, even before Tinder and Bumble and all of it, and I feel theres something magical about the slowness of that time.
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| | Freida Pinto met with a Black Panther activist to prepare for 'Guerrilla' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Freida Pinto at “For Your Consideration” event for Guerrilla in Beverly Hills on Thursday. I don?t have an issue with Freida in a dusty Pink shade, but doesn?t this suit look really dated? I think I just have an issue with the double-breasted jacket. If this was single-breasted, it would have been a much more interesting look.
Anyway, as we discussed before, Guerrilla is a miniseries event airing on Showtime (in America) and Sky (in Britain). It?s about racial tensions in London in the 1970s, a time when any non-white immigrant in Britain was considered ?black,? at least according to this show. Which means that Freida is playing the lead in a miniseries about the black-power movement in Britain. Which has caused some legitimate concerns that American writer-producer John Ridley (an African-American man) has ?erased? black women from the narrative of a black-power movement. While there?s been a significant outcry in Britain, there doesn?t seem to be much conversation about the erasure of black women in America with regards to this series. Which means Freida has mostly been doing press in America, including this new piece with the NY Post. Some highlights:
Her character protests the infamous Immigration Act 1971, which aimed to send nonwhite British residents out of the country: ?It seems the most natural thing in the world to protest against the immigration act. Today, you have Occupy Wall Street, or the Women?s March on Washington. But something happens at the rally that shakes them up when their friend Julian [Nicholas Pinnock] is wrongly framed by the cops. They need to make an example of someone because he?s outspoken.?
She met with Farrukh Dhondy, a novelist, playwright and activist in the British Black Panther movement. ?We learned a lot about the Black Power movement and what it meant. Anything that was being suppressed, including the Irish, was considered to be blackness.?
Commonwealth citizens came to Britain to work post-WWII: ?A lot of people came from the colonies with their fair share of education and were relegated to jobs below their station. Jas is not feeling fulfilled. She?s trained in the medical field. She could be a real nurse. The same thing for Marcus. They want him to be a driver.?
[From The NY Post]
Again, I have no doubt that this series is a representation of the kind of oppression felt by minority communities in Britain. I have no doubt that the Indian community was just as oppressed, just as maligned and just as active as other minority communities. But? the series is still problematic because there doesn?t seem to be an accurate representation of the black women in the movement too. Is that on Freida? Or is that on John Ridley?
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| | Freida Pinto is the lead in a series about black-power in '70s London, yikes | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For a few weeks, Freida Pinto has been on a promotional tour for her new Showtime/Sky series called Guerrilla. The series was created and written by African-American producer/screenwriter John Ridley, who won an Oscar for the 12 Years a Slave screenplay. Ridley also created ABC?s American Crime, incidentally, and he seems to have made his post-Oscar career all about telling complicated stories about race and racial tensions. Well, Guerrilla focuses on racial tensions and the Black Power movement in the 1970s? in London. Here?s the trailer:
Do you see anything tricky and/or problematic here? I actually winced a little bit. It?s not that I dislike Freida Pinto, nor do I think she?s a bad actress. But if you?re going to make a movie about the Black Power movement? why cast an Indian actress as the lead? So, when they premiered the first episode in London last week, Ridley, Idris Elba and Freida all took part in a panel discussion after the premiere. And it did not go well. British outlets report that when London-based Black Lives Matter activists challenged Ridley and Pinto on her character, Freida was ?reduced to tears? and ?left stunned.? Ridley made the point that ?being called Black in the Seventies referred to all people of colour from former British colonies.? Which I didn?t know? Indians were called ?black? in Britain?? While Freida was too upset to answer questions, Ridley stuck around for an hour to discuss the series and why he made certain choices about race:
At the premiere of the Showtime/Sky civil rights drama Guerrilla on Thursday in London, the post-screening Q&A didn’t quite follow the usual, fluffy, congratulatory script. Several members of the audience at the Curzon Bloomsbury cinema reacted strongly to the character played by Freida Pinto, an Asian woman called Jas Mitra who finds herself at the militant heart of a movement battling racist elements of the British police force and legal system of the early 1970s.
“Why are there no black women at the forefront of the struggle?” asked one audience member. “That doesn’t necessarily accurately reflect what happened in the ’70s in the U.K.”
Another went so far as to suggest the writers of Guerrilla had, in putting an Asian women at the heart of the plot, overseen the “erasure of black women” from the story. Show creator, 12 Years a Slave writer John Ridley, responded by saying that should aspects of Guerrilla be difficult to understand or accept, “I feel I have done my job,” adding that if “everybody understood racism, oppression … there would be no reason to be doing this show … we would be doing Dancing With the Stars.”
But as the debate raged on, a visibly emotional Ridley, holding back tears, explained that the reason for choosing to have a mixed-race couple at the center of the story was because he was in a mixed race relationship himself.
“The things that are being said here, and how we are often received, is very equivalent to what’s going on right now in the world. My wife is a fighting, my wife is an activist, and yet because our races are different there are a lot of things we have to still put up with.”
The historical accuracy of Ridley’s decision was backed up by Neil Kenlock, seen as the British Black Power movement’s official photographer. “What John did was exactly spot on,” he said. “We had an Asian woman, and she was extremely active. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with what I’ve seen today.”
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, Ridley explained how he fully expected Guerrilla, which also stars Idris Elba, Babou Ceesay and Rory Kinnear, to spark a debate.
“If you?re dealing with race, if you’re dealing with politics, if you?re dealing with people who have traditionally been considered ‘others,’ there is going to be someone, somewhere who is going to be upset about what you?re doing,” he said. “It?s not about agreement, it?s about allowing people in some way to have some thing that they can talk about, whether they agree or disagree … start a conversation.”
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
I think both sides have important points. One, it?s not like everything was amazing for Indians, Pakistanis and other racial minority groups in Britain at that time and of course there were many non-black allies, disrupters and activists in what was then called a ?Black Power? movement. It?s also important to represent the contributions made by those non-black activists, especially considering they were also racial minorities facing discrimination, violence and more. But on the other side? yes, this does feel like a significant erasure of black women. It feels like colorism and misogynoir to have an Indian woman as the lead of a series about a ?black power? movement. It would be like making a bio-pic of Rosa Parks and making Reese Witherspoon the lead of the film, starring as a white lady who once met Rosa Parks.
All that being said, I feel sorry for Freida a little bit. It?s difficult for an Indian actress to find a great role on a major TV series, just as it?s difficult for a black actress to find a great role on a major TV series. But Freida probably should have asked a few more questions about this, right?
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| | Freida Pinto isn't 'beautiful?: 'I don't even like to look at myself in the mirror' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Freida Pinto covers the latest issue of The Edit, net-a-porter?s online, in-house magazine. The style of the shoot is ?warrior? I think, and it?s okay. Freida tends to agree to some weird editorial concepts, almost like magazines are trying to figure out what kind of crazy stuff they can do to her to make her less beautiful. You can see the full Edit piece here. Some highlights:
Meeting Meryl Streep: ?I wanted to tell Meryl how inspired I was by her, but the words weren?t coming out properly. Then she turned and said, ?Oh, Freida!? I couldn?t believe she knew who I was. She has this larger-than-life persona, but when you?re talking to her, it?s woman to woman. She?s a grand actress and a grand human being, but in every other sense she?s not grand at all.?
Being unfulfilled: ?Even though I was happy that the projects kept coming and getting better, there was a part of me that was not feeling fulfilled.?
Becoming an ambassador for the Because I am a Girl campaign: ?You hear that phrase so much. ?I got raped? because I?m a girl?, ?I can?t go out at night?because I?m a girl?, when really it should be, ?Because I?m a girl, I can give birth to the next generation of enlightened males.??
Chasing the ?white girl? roles: ?It?s hard because the first thing people see when I go into an audition is that I am 100% Indian, but I don?t remember a time in my life when I did not see myself as a world citizen. When I watch films, I can always imagine myself as the female lead ? even if it?s Minnie Mouse.?
Being called ?beautiful?: ?It?s not necessarily the way I see myself. In fact, I don?t even like to look at myself in the mirror. But I?m aware of the perception and I always say that if it?s because of that one line in Slumdog where Latika is described as ?the most beautiful girl in the world?, then I have to do everything that I can to change that perception.?
Aging in the industry: ?I?m excited about the kind of roles I might get in my thirties; I?m hoping they?re going to be very different. I?m lucky that I haven?t been overexposed. There were a lot of films I said no to, because I wanted to concentrate on longevity.?
[From The Edit]
The ?chasing white girl roles? is apparently a joke she has with her agent about what auditions she goes out for and what meetings she takes. I believe that they?re saying that, as with much of Hollywood, almost every script is written for the female characters to be white, and Freida auditions anyway and sometimes she gets the roles.
Meanwhile, remember that story Dev Patel told about Mario Testino telling him he shouldn?t be with Freida because he?s a goofy-looking guy and Freida is beautiful? Well, Pop Sugar asked Freida about it and this is what she said:
“It is a crazy story. I wasn’t actually there, at that show, but [Patel] did come home and tell me about it. And I go, ‘Did you misunderstand what [Mario] was saying, or did he really [say that]?’ And [Patel's] like, ‘No, that’s what he said.’ [Mario] probably didn’t even mean it that way. I don’t know. I wasn’t there to witness it, but if that’s how someone felt, if they wanted to air it, then they should be allowed to.”
[From PopSugar]
Um? that?s sort of rude? Of course Testino had the ?right? to say whatever insulting thing he wanted to say. But why not just say ?wow, Testino was rude to my boyfriend at the time.?
Photos courtesy of Chad Pitman/The Edit.
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| | Freida Pinto: Indian girls 'don't realize the beauty of their tan skin tone' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Freida Pinto at the NYC premiere of Desert Dancer, her latest film. Freida is so pretty, but this lilac Elie Saab is too? eh? I mean, the color works for me, but I?m disappointed that she chose such an ice-skater-looking dress.
To promote the film, Freida has a piece in Los Angeles Magazine, all about her first trip to LA. She first came to the city in 2009, while she was promoting Slumdog Millionaire. It?s a nice piece ? you can read the full article here. She talks about the initial craziness of her schedule, but finding out that LA was so yoga-obsessed really helped her because yoga is ?very Indian.? She also talks a lot about the food in LA, which let me tell you ? that?s also ?very Indian? to obsess on food. That was the first question my father would ask me: ?Where did you go to eat? What did you eat? I could probably make a better version.? Freida also talks about the prevalence of skin-bleaching in India, a subject she?s discussed before. Some highlights:
LA is all for brown skin: ?A lot of girls growing up in India do not realize the beauty of their beautiful tan skin tone. Skin-lightening products are a big seller in the Indian cosmetics industry. On one of my trips to Los Angeles, someone walked up to me and said, ?You have the most beautiful caramel-chocolate skin.? In L.A. everyone is sunbathing or going to tanning shops; I wish the 1.2 billion people in India could have a little peek into this culture and appreciate what they have.?
Her first Oscar experience: ?Slumdog Millionaire was like a first love. None of what happened was expected; the next thing I know, I?m walking down the red carpet at the Oscars in my John Galliano dress. The ceremony was so beautiful. To feel the energy in that room?it was like being touched by God. I still have a small suitcase full of memorabilia from the ceremonies. I stole my name card from the Directors Guild of America Awards, and I took one of the Slumdog Millionaire tags that were on the table at the Governors Ball. I was so dedicated to remembering all the people I met that when they gave me their card, I would write where I met them and in what context on the back. My agent turned to me and said, ?Good luck keeping up with that.??
[From LA Magazine]
That?s so cool that she still has all the memorabilia from that awards season! She should turn it into an art project or something. As for the skin color comments? as I?ve said before, I?m half-white and half-Indian, so I am the palest one in my Indian family (and the darkest one of my mother?s side). I?m so American though, and I do prefer to have ?some color,? as I call it. I used to go to tanning beds so I could be darker. I loved the way my skin looked with a deep tan. Sigh? I wish I had some color right now.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Freida Pinto Premieres 'Desert Dancer' in NYC | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Stepping out for some promotional duties, Freida Pinto showed up at the Baccarat Hotel in Manhattan on Tuesday evening (April 7).
Joined by Director Richard Raymond, the ?Slumdog Millionaire? was in the house for the premiere of her new flick ?Desert Dancer,? and she looked stunning in a purple lace frock as she posed for photos.
?Desert Dancer? is slated to hit theaters on Friday, April 10th. Per the synopsis, ?Afshin Ghaffarian risks everything to start a dance company amidst his home country of Iran's politically volatile climate and the nation's ban on dancing.?
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They spent the past six years in a storybook romance but sadly Freida Pinto and Dev Patel have decided to go their separate ways.
According to multiple outlets, the ?Slumdog Millionaire? costars broke up earlier this fall and in October Ms. Pinto celebrated her birthday without Patel. Back in 2008, Dev and Freida announced their relationship and ever since they?ve both been very complimentary of each other in the press.
Pinto previously told Interview magazine, ?I don?t think anybody ? not even family or friends ? can understand what the two of us have been through. As beautiful as it is, there are parts of it that just become a bit tiring to deal with. The paparazzi, for example, and not having privacy. He made a statement unknowingly once and he said, ?Oh, she is like my soul mate,? and we were not dating or anything back then, and it became this big hoopla. Like, ?Oh my god! How could he have said that? What does that mean?? But I guess he was right in a way; we are soul mates.?
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| | Freida Pinto & Dev Patel broke up, she probably has a billionaire jumpoff | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?m not trying to sound mean, but I?m actually surprised that this breakup didn?t happen sooner. Dev Patel and Freida Pinto got together while filming/promoting Slumdog Millionaire back in 2008. Freida was in another relationship at the time, and I?ve always believed there was some overlap between the first guy and Dev. But whatever happened, Dev was the one to ?stick? and they ended up having a six-year relationship. And it?s now over! Sad face.
Fans are not going to like this one. Slumdog Millionaire costars Freida Pinto and Dev Patel have called it quits on their relationship, multiple sources confirm exclusively to Us Weekly. The now-exes, who met on set of the Oscar-winning movie in 2008, were together for almost six years.
“Dev and Freida have broken up,” one source tells Us of the couple. “They have been done for a while.”
Pinto, who is six years older than Patel, recently celebrated her 30th birthday without the actor this past October. The Immortals actress instead rang in her milestone birthday with billionaire Siddharth Mallya.
“Freida is single and happy,” another source tells Us of the newly available star. “Friends are setting her up.”
During happier times, the two considered themselves “soul mates” — in Patel’s case, even before they were dating. “We’re soul mates because we’re both in this surreal situation. She is very beautiful… I haven’t got a girlfriend but Freida, my costar, is gorgeous,” the Newsroom star, 24, told Contact Music in 2008. Years later, during a chat with Interview mag, Pinto agreed: “I guess he was right in a way; we are soul mates.”
The couple were so in love, in fact, that last year, they told Us Weekly they don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day because “every day should be a celebration of love.”
Prior to dating Patel, Pinto was engaged to her former publicist Rohan Antao until January 2009.
[From Us Weekly]
That was an interesting little detail thrown in there, right? Freida ?rang in her milestone birthday with billionaire Siddharth Mallya.? When I heard ?billionaire? with an Indian name, it made me think that the guy was old and that Freida was pulling a Miranda Kerr. But check out Siddharth Mallya. WHOA. I?d tap that. He?s young, he?s handsome and he has major family money. Yes, I think Freida and Dev have probably been done for months now and she?s already pursuing/being pursued by Mallya. Damn, girl.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Freida Pinto Pays a Visit to Notre Dame de Paris | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Hitting the streets with a friend for some ice cream in Paris, "Immortals" starlet Freida Pinto paid a visit to the iconic Notre Dame de Paris today (October 25).
Stunning in a royal blue sweater, the 29-year-old wore her lovely her flying in the wind and around her shoulders, sporting a pair of shades. She wore tight black skinnies, black high top leather shoes and showed off a black purse, slung around her shoulder.
As previously reported by GossipCenter, Freida is hard at work on two upcoming movies. The farther of of the two is named, "Knight of Cups," in which she shares the spot light with superstars Natalie Portman and Christian Bale.
Set to premiere in the U.S. in 2014, the romance flick is directed by Terrence Malick, and offers a simple synopsis, stating, "A man, temptations, celebrity, and excess."
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| | Freida Pinto Supports Isabel Marant at H&M Photocall | | Added 11 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Attending one of the largest events H&M has to offer, actress Freida Pinto made a brilliant appearance at the 'Isabel Marant For H&M' Photocall at Tennis Club De Paris today (October 24).
Electrifying in a patterned black, white and red sweater over a white blouse, Freida also wore a matching black and white skirt and gray heel boots.
Isabel posed alongside H&M Creative advisor Margareta Van Den Bosch, wearing a stylish charcoal overcoat, white blouse and black leather shorts. She completed her look with designer heels and a black handbag.
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