Freida Pinto looked gorgeous on the cover of Maxim magazine’s latest issue!
If we knew any of the 18 major languages spoken in your native India, we’d tell you in one of them that you are extremeley beautiful. You were a model before you became an actress, right?
I modeled for two years. After six months of auditioning, I got call for Slumdog Millionaire.
I thought this would be just another audition. But to my surprise, I was short-listed and finally selected.
Was it hard to transition from modeling to acting? Did people think you were just too gorgeous to play a normal person?
Actually, that’s why I feel a film like Slumdog is so important for me-it doesn’t always show me in the most beautiful light. I have a scar on my face. I have black eye. Hopefully, people won’t see me only as a beautiful model,but also as a great actor.
We won’t hold your beuaty against you. Is Mumbai as crazy as it looks in the movie?
Yes, it is. It’s quite chaotic and it’s moving at a really, really fast pace-almost like someone has pressed the fast-forward button and won’t let go of it.
It must have been wild growing up there?
Absolutely. I think the reaseon i’m so happy that I was born and rised in India is because it’s made me that fighter, not just a survivor, but a fighter as well. It equips you for all kinds of hardships.
You’ve been cast in a bunch of Hollywood flicks. Where will your home away from home in the states be?
New York, I think it is very similar to Bombay. The chaos is the same.
